Botox injections help get rid of migraines

Migraine is a mysterious and unpredictable disease, an attack of acute headache can catch you anywhere and appear out of nowhere. In addition, unlike a regular headache, a painful migraine may not come alone, but accompanied by vomiting and acute sensitivity to light.

Unfortunately, doctors still do not know for sure the causes of these attacks and often the tearing pain cannot be calmed by any medication.

According to statistics, migraines are more common in women than in men. About 20% of the world's population suffers from this disease.

American Ilana Fox decided to tell her story of a long struggle with migraines.

According to the woman, over the past ten years, migraines had been troubling her every couple of months, but some time ago the excruciating attacks increased to twice a week.

"My whole head was clamped in a vice, I could barely move, when I tried to get out of bed, I started to feel sick. The only way out was to take a horizontal position again and remove all sources of light and quietly cry from hopelessness," says Ilana.

The pain was so sharp that the slightest extraneous sounds could make it even worse.

The girl's therapist prescribed painkillers and told her to take them even if they didn't help. And they didn't. Ilana's cheerful, energetic life turned into a continuous headache that had no end in sight. She stopped meeting with friends and cut back on her outings to a minimum, afraid that a migraine would suddenly catch her off guard.

"At the pharmacy, they looked at me like I was a drug addict, which is not strange, because I came there every day and scooped up handfuls of all kinds of drugs in an attempt to eliminate the pain," the girl recalls. "And once there was a moment when a crazy thought about suicide flashed through my head. Yes, I had reached the end of my rope, my strength was running out, and I was ready to do anything to drown out the pulsating beats in my head."

When Ilana visited her doctor again, she admitted defeat in the fight against migraines and referred the girl to a neurologist.

"I came to see Dr. Guy Leschziner ready for any experiments with my head, I, who had previously refused to take medications on principle, was so exhausted. He observed me and prescribed various treatments, there were improvements, but he was unable to eradicate the migraine. If some pills helped, their side effects brought everything to nothing. The headache that had subsided was compensated by nausea, an upset stomach, or a feeling of goosebumps crawling on my skin. After numerous experiments with medications, I decided on the last salvation - a therapeutic blockade," the girl says.

The positive effect of Botox injections is based on the fact that it paralyzes the muscles in the patient's forehead and neck, which prevents the occurrence of migraines.

Injections are given into the muscles of the forehead and neck; the procedure can be repeated no more than once every six months.

"After returning home from the hospital, my head felt strange and still hurt. I was so disappointed that I cried for hours. But gradually the pain began to disappear and soon it was gone forever. Five weeks later, the migraine returned, but as soon as I took a regular painkiller, it immediately went away. I was amazed. I felt the taste of life again, I enjoyed daylight again and stopped being afraid of not being home if the pain suddenly returned. Maybe Botox injections are harmful, but I will somehow survive it, but constant migraines are unlikely," says Ilana.

According to Dr. Leschziner, such injections should become an accessible treatment for anyone who does not benefit from conventional treatment.

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