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Post Botox: Sharp recurring pain at base of my skull on the side - it feels like a stabbing and last only a couple of seconds

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bluuebirdMar 11, 2014

Is this normal ? I had my second round of botox shots 2 weeks ago. So far I see no change in my headaches although with my first treatment I had 2 great months of more than 50% reduction in headaches. Last time I got relief after 7 days and it was remarkable. And, can I expect the botox to start working?

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Ali Totonchi, MD

Medicare covers the Botox for migraine headache routinely with proper documentation, Actually I would say it is one of the easiest usurer to cover the Botox injection for this purpose. Ali Totonchi M.D.

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Adam J. Oppenheimer, MD, FACS

There are seven key migraine trigger points that are amenable to injection with Botox. The first task for your surgeon is to determine if you indeed meet the International Headache Society criteria for chronic migraine headaches, and then to determine your migraine trigger point(s). The anatomic...

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Ron Shelton, MD

Telogen effluvium s a condition in which more hairs are lost roughly three months afer a signficant stress. This can be a physiologic stress or emotional stress. Your migranes might have been such a stress and although you're at two, not three months, maybe yours is this temporary effluvium! See...

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Ron Shelton, MD

Please see your doctor who did the treatment. There may be some relaxation of the muscle that clenches the jaw more on one side than the other and you might have developed a TMJ pain. Your symptoms may go away spontaneously, but some ENT doctors are specialists for TMJ and use Botox to treat...

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Ron Shelton, MD

Please see a neurologist right away for appropriate exams and tests / scans to ensure that your migraines are not caused by a cause of the seizures. The botox is unlikely as a cause of the seizures.

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