MAV and sinus symptoms?

Hi Matt
I have been diagnosed with chronic migraine for 2 yrs, tried loads of meds which did nothing. Last Sept a sinus issue was uncovered for which I require surgery. You can read the detail in my posts below. In a nutshell, I have been told that migraine and sinus disease can have the same symptoms and it’s hard to tell the difference between them…the “conventional wisdom” is that migraine is much more common cause of headache and symptoms than sinus, particularly if you have no obvious sinus symptoms (congestion, nasal discharge, repeated infections). An ENT Professor I saw recently said I could have both migraine and sinus disease, or the sinus disease is triggering the migraine - only surgery will prove one or the other.

There are lots of people on here who have sinus/ear symptoms with MAV, For some people these symptoms disappear along with the migraine when migraine meds have controlled their symptoms. For me that didn’t happen despite trying 7 meds…I had a lot of facial pressure and an underwater feeling in my ears along with the headache and dizziness (but no congestion or nasal discharge)…this prompted me to have my sinuses checked…but still no guarantee that surgery will stop these particular symptoms as they could be migraine related rather than sinus related. Sorry there is no clear answer…

https://www.mvertigo.org/t/migraine-or-sinus-ear-issue/16398
https://www.mvertigo.org/t/update-from-my-ent-appt-today/16534

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