Botox treatments for chronic Migraine?

[CathyAnne91]

Hi everyone.

After lots of MRIs, blood work and different medications tried with no success, I’ve been put forward for Botox treatments for my chronic Migraines..

Does anyone have any experience with this course of treatment? Success stories?

If that fails then I’m being put onto a biologics injection on a monthly basis as apparently I’m meeting the criteria (majority of days affected and basically still suffering on the rare days inbetween!)

I'm hoping for success stories because the way I’m carrying on at the moment is just not sustainable in the slightest and tbh it’s getting me down massively.

Clinging onto work by finger tips only, struggling as a single Mumma with my little’un, I have other long term conditions that are being impacted also - so just hoping for someone to say ‘yes! Me! They’re amazing!’

Any experiences with this at all would help me massively.

Thank you so much for reading this and for any responses.

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Hi!
I've been having Botox treatment for nearly 5 years now for my migraines, honestly it's been life changing for me!
I have it every 3-4 months, I went from having migraines 25 days a month to now averaging 4 migraines every 3-4 months!

Also i can tell it's definitely the Botox that works as if my appointment is closer to 4 months than 3 I tend you have more migraines in that last month for sure!
I also had to stop whilst pregnant and they came back with a vengeance.

Try and stay positive as I say I can only say positive things!! Fingers crossed it works for you!

I have chronic migraine and botox didn't work for me sadly, I have tried the CGRP injections (I guess that is the biologic you mention) also with very limited success. I now use a little device from my NHS Neurology clinic which sends electrical pulses into my vagus nerve and that does help a lot. I also tried the trans cranial magnetic treatment which I found helpful but it is too expensive once the trial runs out. I still get migraines and use triptans about 10 days a month but it is much better than the 25+ days I used to have.

Botox seems to help lots of people so do try it but be aware there are other treatments if it doesn't work.

@smokingbum

Yes thats the jab! I barely took any of the info in as on the days in between I’m just like a complete zombie so nothing goes in 😑

I didn’t know about any other alternatives, I will definitely investigate further, thank you for taking the time to reply x

@Daisy95 Im so pleased they’re working for you! X