OT - Botox

[shootingstar]

thx, for sharing.

..and I didn't know botox had some other uses. But unbelievable someone was recommended it...for migraines??

[bambu101]

I had Botox injections into the facet joints and surrounding muscles of my cervical spine to reduce severe pain from a whiplash injury in 2001.

Didn't help a whole lot.

[Natural Beauty]

So....the protein from botulism which is a toxin, is injected to paralyze the muscle....is that why they think it would work on severe muscle pain?
Sounds kind of yucky. If needles are going to be used wouldn't accupuncture be a better form of treatment?

I don't know, I've never needed to paralyze muscle before.

[Eden]

They used to use botox where I worked to stop "gustatory sweating". I guess if you have to have your paraotid (salivary) glands removed sometimes the nerves that control them can grow back into your skin and activate your sweat glands, so every time you eat or even think about or smell something that might ordinarily make your mouth water you sweat profusely from your face instead....

They would inject botox to paralyze the nerves and stop the sweating.

The nurse I knew worked in that clinic, so I think that's how she got interested in botox in the first place.

[Dogmama]

Yes, the botox wore off but it took about 10 weeks. I really looked like a sleepy-eyed lizard. Not being able to move your forehead muscles is too weird. I'll never do it again.