As far back as he could remember Wade was in pain. Dozens of doctors from the best hospitals in the world told him he was crazy. He was ready to give up but his wife convinced him to give Dr. Aguila one last chance. He’s thankful he did. Watch this emotional story of hope and healing.
Troy was relegated to a life on pain medication and spent many of his waking hours in bed. The pain kept him out of work. He lost years with his kids. After seven unsuccessful surgeries, he met Dr. Aguila in a most unusual way. Dr. Aguila performed a radical surgery that changed Troy’s life. Troy shares his emotionally journey.
Macie was a young athlete suffering from horrible upper back pain. She tried many treatments to relieve her suffering including acupuncture, pain medication, medical massage, and physical therapy. She even had an MRI and a bone scan to see if she had cancer. No doctor could solve her problem until she found Dr. Demetrio Aguila who diagnosed her issue on the first visit. Watch her story.
Dr. Aguila is excited to offer his neuropathy patients a new treatment option that does not involve surgery. Watch how Lisa walked into his office in pain and walked out feeling like a different person.
Emilie suffered from debilitating chronic headaches. Through her work as a nurse in Dr. Demetrio Aguila’s practice, she learned of a new non-surgical procedure aimed at helping patients with nerve pain. Watch her story and hear how she feels about Dr. Aguila from a patient and nurse perspective.
Jim was at rock bottom when he met Dr. Aguila. Thankfully, Dr. Aguila was able to control pain from Jim’s Trigeminal Neuralgia through nerve surgery. Jim says Dr. Aguila saved his life. Watch his story of hope and healing.
Bill had an accident loading livestock. The center gate in a horse trailer flew back, breaking his cheekbone and eye socket. He suffered facial fractures, a concussion and had lingering headaches. When he turned his head, he felt his brain lose in his skull.
Dr. Aguila performed reconstructive surgery on his eye socket, helping him feel better cosmetically and saving his vision. Very often patients with these types of injures suffer catastriphic vision loss or double vision. Luckily neither of those happened with Bill.
After surgery with Dr. Aguila, he had very little pain and has recovered completely. His advice? “Call Dr. Aguila. He takes time to explain everything and truly cares about his patients.”
Macy’s had successful reconstructive surgery with Dr. Aguila. She shares her story below.
“I was in the hospital for the first 6 months of my life and had several life-saving surgeries, including having ⅓ of my small intestine removed, temporary colostomy, my appendix removed, and gallstones and my gallbladder removed. All of these surgeries left my stomach looking like a railroad track station.
Dr. Aguila was able to revise my scars to make my stomach smoother and the scars less noticeable. I thank Dr. Aguila for boosting my self-esteem.”
Read more about reconstructive surgeries offered by Dr. Aguila – patient success stories.
Macy had successful reconstructive surgery with Dr. Aguila.
Migraine Headaches Gone
“Before my surgery, I didn’t have much of a life. I was always afraid to go somewhere or do anything for fear of getting a migraine. Migraines for me were completely incapacitating. I couldn’t get out and go see my kids and family like I wanted to. It affected every relationship I have in one way or another.
I felt like I had no hope. I was just trying to survive between Botox injections. Honestly, I felt like I was just waiting for the Lord to come to get me and take me from this body of death.”
Dr. Aguila excised multiple occipital nerves to get rid of Cheryl’s migraines. She was 90% better after the first procedure.
She then identified that she had temporal triggers that were now identifiable since we’d taken care of the occipital triggers. Dr. Aguila returned to the operating room to remove the auriculotemporal nerves. Now she’s had only one migraine headache in the last year!
“EVERYTHING changed after my surgery! Dr. Aguila is my hero! Words can’t describe how life changed! I can go places and do things without fear! I actually have a life! I can actually be depended on by my family, instead of being absent! I praise God, that He led me to Dr. Aguila!”
Migraines are thought to be intracranial problems in which a headache is triggered by an alteration in blood flow. Botox, however, would not alter the intracranial component of the migraine cascade, and so a different explanation is necessary to understand why botox (or surgery) would be helpful. It is theorized, then, by many surgeons and dermatologists, that the mechanism by which Botox works is to paralyze the muscles that are irritating the nerves and acting as triggers for the migraines. In effect, Botox doesn’t cure the migraines – it removes the trigger so that the process doesn’t start in the first place.
Cheryl no longer suffers from Migraine headaches after Dr. Aguila removed nerves in her head.
Here is what Dr. Aguila had to add to Cheryl’s case:
Similarly, the reason that the surgery helped is that the nerves were being irritated by the surrounding muscle and tissue, and that irritation would act as the trigger for the migraine headaches. We had discussed the option of decompressing the nerves, but Cheryl wanted to leave nothing to chance.
We instead removed nerves, knowing that it would likely leave her some numbness over certain areas of her scalp, but also knowing that the denervation would have a higher chance of success. Surprisingly, despite the denervation, she did not have any numbness which speaks to the ability of the body to overlap sensory nerves, and that the nerves that traditionally are responsible for sensation in the scalp obviously had some cross-innervation from other nerves, such that she noticed no areas of numbness.