Therapeutic botox

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My hand surgeon has recommended I go for botox in the muscle that may be causing my little finger to go into contracture to see if it helps.

He doesn't do it, so couldn't tell me what it was like, so I wondered if anyone here had had botox for dystonia/high tone ?

Anyone ? Just interested to know if the experience is that it totally paralyses that muscle or if it just relaxes it enough to make it behave. Its my only working finger on that hand in the direction that its contracted into, so I'd like to keep some extension

If anyone is interested, I did have the botox, and it was bloomin marvellous. My finger was a right angles to my hand (backwards), and three injections into the muscle (which didn't hurt), and it dropped down beautifully to be pretty much in line with the others. Now it doesn't get caught on things, and looks much better. Will be doing it every 3-4 months now

Interesting, I do cosmetic botox. It is a great drug with so many uses. Glad it helped you.

Did you have any side effects?

No, it was actually a bit freaky as I had the injections Tuesday, went to bed Wednesday with it in the bad position, woke up Thursday with it relaxed. I didn't feel anything different.

It feels the same as my non functioning fingers - not a weak movement, just doesn't go there. No tremors in it either now, and the stiff joint is getting softer