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Botox Injection in Neck for Fibromyalgia: Now Have Extreme Side Effects
In one week I got muscle pains in the back of my neck. I could tolerate this but it got worse and actually moved down my neck to both shoulders and fineally moved to the muscles at the surface of my left sholder. If I lay down and completly relax it goes away. I work on a computer and after a bit everything comes back. It is many times worse than the fibromylgia. It is very bad muscle pain an actual burning pain and numbness. What can I do or do I just have to wait for the botox to wear off?
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cyberdan
in So CA
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Botox for muscles off the face
Once muscles are treated off the face, more units are usually needed. Sometimes treating one muscle may cause an adjacent muscle to overcompensate and this can throw off the balance of your musculoskeletal strength and posture. The nontreated overactive muscles may start to spasm. Rather than injecting Botox in those muscles, maybe having massage or even seeing a pain management doctor can provide relief or through physical therapy.
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Botox for Fibromyalgia, Now Side Effects
Hi Cyberdan,
You should contact your injecting physician for follow up and advice. Most likely the best course will be to allow the Botox to wear off.
Best,
Dr. P
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Botox Injection in Neck for Fibromyalgia: Now Have Extreme Side Effects
What you are experiencing is the law of unintended consequences. this happens all the time with botox injections, sometimes with actually good results, sometimes with poor results. the platysma muscle in the front of the neck is a depressor (it lowers the jaw) as opposed to the muscles in the back of the neck which are elevators of the head (allow you to look up). when the posterior neck muscles were injected the balance bewtween depressor and elevator was upset leading to other...
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Very few doctors on this forum do these types of treatments.
Cosmetic BOTOX and dysport treatments involve very small doses of these drugs and are not associated with much in the way of systemic side effects. This is very different for the type of injections you received with much higher doses of botulinum toxin. With higher doses, systemic side effects are much more common. Your best course is to immediately contact your treating physician and let them know about what is going on. They may have specific recommendations for...
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Pain after neck Botox
It sounds like just waiting until the Botox wears off would be an option. You could also try to exercise the neck and shoulder muscles, under your physicians approval, as a means of making the Botox wear off more quickly. Best to ask the MD that did your Botox injections in the neck.
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