Chronic Pain Support Group
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I wanted to share my update with you since you have all been so wonderfully supportive and it is good news for a change.
I have been suffering migraines since a child and that is 30 long years. This last year has been hell as I had to wait 17 months to see a Neuro. I got migraines almost daily at a level of #7-9 and had to live on T-3's and whatever I could get my hands on and I even wound up in the hospital for a few days. Sumatriptans had stopped working and nothing I did would help.
Agony was my middle name.
Nov 24, I was given my first series of Botox injections and I want to share with you, to date how it has gone. Today is December 16th.
The injections went around my top of my forehead and over my eyebrows, on my temples and along the back of my neck.
The first three days were okay in that my neck was very sore and hard to hold up at the end of the day. I was warned of this. 5 days later I began a 4 day migraine which was hospital worthy. It was the worst!!!!. I read about botox and it said in some cases Botox made it worse, so I hung in there and just suffered and cried and hoped I hadn't made a real big mistake.
After that, my headaches started to immediately settle down. The neck wasn't sore anymore and I didn't need T-3's because Sumatriptans were working (in my case Imitrex). I had to now bite the bullet and stop taking the codeine based medicine so I had 3 days of abstenence so I felt like I had a real bad flu.
Today, when I get a migraine, it is just that. A #3-4 migraine, where a Imitrex will usually get rid of it in 2 hours. Sometimes I will take a T-3, but I am no longer dependant on it like I was. I am back to where I should be.
Instead of migraines every day, I get them once or twice a week and go for as many as 3-4 days without.
I have a life again.
I get another shot scheduled in February.
I needed to share this with you because I thought I was hard core and uncurable. I was wrong.
You guys have been so supportive and I could not have made it to this point without your loving support and comfort. I am truly humbled by the gift you have given me and I am eternally grateful.
Thank you for being there to keep me going when so many time I had lost hope.
Angela
I have been suffering migraines since a child and that is 30 long years. This last year has been hell as I had to wait 17 months to see a Neuro. I got migraines almost daily at a level of #7-9 and had to live on T-3's and whatever I could get my hands on and I even wound up in the hospital for a few days. Sumatriptans had stopped working and nothing I did would help.
Agony was my middle name.
Nov 24, I was given my first series of Botox injections and I want to share with you, to date how it has gone. Today is December 16th.
The injections went around my top of my forehead and over my eyebrows, on my temples and along the back of my neck.
The first three days were okay in that my neck was very sore and hard to hold up at the end of the day. I was warned of this. 5 days later I began a 4 day migraine which was hospital worthy. It was the worst!!!!. I read about botox and it said in some cases Botox made it worse, so I hung in there and just suffered and cried and hoped I hadn't made a real big mistake.
After that, my headaches started to immediately settle down. The neck wasn't sore anymore and I didn't need T-3's because Sumatriptans were working (in my case Imitrex). I had to now bite the bullet and stop taking the codeine based medicine so I had 3 days of abstenence so I felt like I had a real bad flu.
Today, when I get a migraine, it is just that. A #3-4 migraine, where a Imitrex will usually get rid of it in 2 hours. Sometimes I will take a T-3, but I am no longer dependant on it like I was. I am back to where I should be.
Instead of migraines every day, I get them once or twice a week and go for as many as 3-4 days without.
I have a life again.
I get another shot scheduled in February.
I needed to share this with you because I thought I was hard core and uncurable. I was wrong.
You guys have been so supportive and I could not have made it to this point without your loving support and comfort. I am truly humbled by the gift you have given me and I am eternally grateful.
Thank you for being there to keep me going when so many time I had lost hope.
Angela
I hope the next shot puts a complete end to migraines for you. Big Hugs.
Bless you! Elizabeth
Tonna
xoxo
Lisa
Big Hugs,
David.
Enjoy, enjoy, enjoy!!!!
(And by the way, I'm doing better too... less pain lately. I have a feeling I'm over the worst of it if I continue to be careful. Not fully back to life yet but getting there).
Big happy hug.
Ama
Isn't it wonderful when the doctors finally find something that works? I know I was miserable before my neuro diagnosed me with occipital neuropathy. I went to a pain clinic and got injections into my occipital region (back of the head) and I have had nearly total relief since. It's been a few months now and I haven't had a headache like what I was having. I'm glad you found some relief too.
Annie