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Is it possible that radio frequency ablation is a difficult procedure (I’m not familiar with it) which makes the outcome operator dependent? You might ask your pcp or look it up online. You could consider asking the doctor that did the procedure how many of this procedure they do annually. It just seems funny to me that it worked so well the first time but not at all the second time.

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I don’t see a pcp for this and because I have FMD in my ICA which I was born with, it caused two brain aneurysms, a dissected carotid, and a blood clot to the heart 15 years ago which left me with occipital neuralgia, pain management are my only options. Apparently these days, the medical field has related occipital neuralgia to migraines, which may or may not be true in my opinion because I have tried almost every drug for migraines, including anti convulsants and none so far have touched the pain. The only thing that worked was a nerve ablation which lasted 2 years which leads me to believe in my case, it is a nerve issue and not a headache issue. Even though the second nerve ablation did not work, I have scheduled a third one yesterday to see if the wrong nerve was ablaised. Will let you know next month. Thank you for your comment and sorry for my lengthy one but I am very knowledgeable in this area but wanted to see what others were having success with and how their occipital neuralgia was being classified.