Migraines since 2001. Can mushrooms help me?

[Kevin Kelly]

This is my first post to the group. I actually posted it over on the Clusterbusters side, but they referred me here. So maybe someone on the migraine side of the forum can help me out. After meeting with my neurologist at Yale New Haven hospital today, he suggested that I try asking some questions about taking mushrooms for headaches in this forum. He seemed to think that there was some validity to the use of mushrooms for chronic migraine. I do not have cluster headaches, so will clarify that right away. I have, however, suffered from migraines since 2001 when II was diagnosed with a spontaneous spinal fluid leak. Worst pain I could imagine for about 6 weeks. Bedridden. Eventually things improved, but have never resolved, so I have been searching out specialists from Hartford Hospital in CT to The Philadelphia Headache Center in PA to Yale New Haven in CT. I recently made 4 trips in 6 months to Duke University Hospital in NC earlier this year where the fabulous doctors there found a particularly troublesome leak called a venous fistula, actually several of them. They were repaired and I felt better for about 10 days, then the headaches returned. So, my working theory is that my brain has become accustomed to sending pain signals to my nervous system, even without a physical malady. I am now doing EMDR therapy and trying various anti-anxiety medication to try to break the pain cycle. Some progress has been made, but I am far from where I want to be, thus my post. I'm wondering if there is someone out there who might be able to guide me in this new world of potential treatment using mushrooms. I know next to nothing about them, though have tried them in college many years ago (I am 65 now). Thanks for your attention and I look forward to having a conversation about how to move forward.