Plenty of people on TikTok say yes, but the science is a bit shaky.
attacks and have struggled to find a treatment that actually works, you may have toyed with getting a daith piercing—a.k.a. the migraine piercing. Located on the middle ridge of cartilage within the ear—the external C-shaped part nearest to your ear canal—the daith piercing has become an increasingly popular way to seek migraine pain relief. On
, videos touting the daith piercing’s alleged benefits have racked up hundreds of thousands of views, but whether the technique actually works is more controversial.have found that the piercing substantially improved some people’s migraine symptoms, much of the hype behind the trend is purely anecdotal. Some people claim it’s the only migraine treatment that has worked for them, but others say the piercing had no effect, caused an infection, or made their migraine episodes worse.
To figure out if it’s ever worth getting a daith piercing for chronic migraine, we asked a couple headache specialists to weigh in. Here’s what they said.The daith piercing came about as an earring fad in the ’90s,but it wasn’t until around 2015 that speculation about the piercing’s ability to alleviate migraine pain started to pick up,, a neurologist and headache specialist at Children’s Mercy in Kansas City, tells SELF.
From then up to now, it wasn’t clear if the piercing actually did anything, Gerson says. Despite the fact that there was, and is, essentially no hard data on the piercing’s effect on migraine, the trend accelerated as people shared their positive experiences on social media. “That’s why it’s spreading, and how it’s spreading,” Gerson says.There are a few theories as to why daith piercings may help with migraine pain for some people.
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