I have both Medicare and MassHealth. Will these cover Botox for migraine injections?

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...

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...

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...

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.

Injection of scars is often painful, whether it is a corticosteroid, local anesthetic or Botox. Scar tissue is dense and replete with nerve endings when acute. mature scars may become more numb as time goes on.  Topical ice, cold blowing air (Zimmer cooler) and field blocks with local...