Quick update on this front.

It's been a little more than two weeks since the injections. I was told that it takes two weeks to take effect.

Verdict:

I'm not sure.

I do feel like some scapular pinching/burning has disappeared. Same thing in the tricep. That said, these usually mild symptoms seemed to recede at the same time last week when a very stressful time at work passed. So, it's really hard to say if the botox injection did anything.

That said, the one thing that I noticed yesterday was that the presence of my "bruit" was completely gone. I used to notice that on say, every 3rd or 4th heart beat, I could feel the "turbulent blood flow" under my finger right where the subclavian artery runs. It was pretty consistent.

Now it's completely gone.

So it could be that the scalene muscle has been loosened enough that it's no longer strangeling the subclavian artery.

I'll have to keep monitoring this.

The true test will be the next stressful period at work.

KY