Male, 55, Lifetime of Migraines, 90% Cured!

I have had migraines and cluster headaches from childhood on. I tried virtually every treatment I could find out about or get my hands on all throughout my life, as these headaches were very severe and debilitating and stop my life dead when they happened which was at least once a week and usually more like 2 to 3. Extreme sensitivity to light and sound, the visual aurora and other classic symptoms that then led to nausea and extreme pain. I also wou l d occasionally get what I layer found out was called intestinal migraines which I would refer to as "poop attacks" which had similar symptoms as irritable bowl where my body was trying to have severe diarrhea but it would get stuck halfway across my distal colon and refuse to go the rest of the way out.
Dozens of years and doctors later at the age of 45, I was told about Botox. At first it seemed crazy-I mean a treatment consisting of injecting deadly poison into my head, neck, and face area?
A good neurologist, my 11th, explained it all very well and I decided to give it a try. At first, insurance did not want to cover it at all, saying it was expiramental and unproven They also insisted that I continually provide proof that I had tried the normal cheaper alternatives available which I kept telling them and showing them I had. Eventually, it became a mainstay treatment and as long as it is pre-authorized, they cover it 100%. To make a long story a bit shorter, botox was and is a miracle treatment for me. Except for some very minor side effects that last a day or two at most, my migraines are HISTORY after decades of torment and torture. I go in every 3 to 4 months for continued treatment. In the last 10 years, it has only not worked at all 3 times and was only partially effective 3 times as well. Not bad odds really, and those times I believe the failed ones was because the Dr was in a hurry and was not being careful enough and precise enough with the location and amounts injected.
Overall, I am very satisfied with the treatments and it cut my need for meds by 90%+. If I have gone too long between injections or if I get a breakthrough headache, I sometimes take butalbital with either aspirin and or Tylenol which works fairly well and sometimes a tryptin as well.
I believe that as long as you have a very well trained and highly experienced neurologist that knows what they are doing, the use if carefully injected botox can be a Godsend and can give you your life back like it did for me. It sure beats laying in the dark in silence for hours and days at a time like I did for 80% of my lifetime until this treatment became available.
If anyone has any questions they'd like to ask, please feel free to do so anytime and I'll be happy to reply.
BTW, the name of my neurologist is Naveed Vehra and he practices as part of a group on Glendale, AZ. He has gone to nearly 100% on call hospital work so it has become quote difficult to get and then have him keep appointments so it has become necessary to have a different dr in the group do the injections. They tried to pawn me off to a physicians assistant without telling me in advance last month but I refused as I am very aware of the absolute need for good training and extensive exprience needed by the provider in order to have it done correctly and effectively and to avoid bad outcomes that can happen with this powerful poison if it is not introduced precisely when injected in exact amounts and in exact locations and I absolutely refuse to have a non MD non neurologist work with this stuff and me.