Newbie with Botox question
 

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I am new and need some information. I fell out of a chair at work onto my shoulder. I am having shoulder, neck and back pains... no drugs have been able to help the pain or the spasams in my shoulder. My doctor wants to give me Botox shots. :eek: Has anyone heard of that procedure and what were the effects. I know that Botox is somewhat new and I don't know the contraindicators behind that. Please email me if you have additional information or sources that I can get accurate information from. My email is knox.angela@gmail.com. Today is Thursday and I will see my physician on Monday to discuss the shots so I need to make up my mind. I thought I had and would have the shots but I am Afraid! AFRAID!!! I am also on a lot of psychotgrophic drugs. :Dunno:


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Angel

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Hi Angel and welcome to NeuroTalk

I dont have any answers for you re the Botox but I hope someone who does will be able to give you some input/

I am also going to copy your post over to our Medications Forum

here is the link to your post on the Medications Forum Angel

http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/sh...ad.php?t=13001

Hi Angel,

:welcome_sign:. There are lots of wonderfully supportive people here so I am glad that you found us.

I have posted your thread over in the TOS forum because several TOSers have had botox shots and should be able to tell you about their experiences. Also please check the top of the TOS forum, there might be some information posted about botox shots.

I am so sorry to hear of your accident. Ouch. I know first hand how painful those spasms can be and how hard it is to break them.

What kind of doc have you seen? Have you seen a neuro yet? Have you had an MRI? What kind of tests have you had done?

Sending you :hug: . Hope you find some relief soon.

Hi Angel,
I have bilateral TOS and I have had two round of botox shots. I get them in the scalenes, pecs, trapezius and the like on both sides in the hopes that it will relax my muscles enough to relieve nerve compression.


As far as I know (I am not a doctor, so i could be wrong) botox is pretty benign, it does not circulate intravenoeously, it is just injected into the muscle to deaden the nerves in a small area. Basically, it causes a muscle not to contract. When you are having spasms, that can be a very useful thing.

I have found the injections to be useful, the first ones took about 4 weeks to start working, and were very short acting (about 2 weeks) of very good releif followed by 4 weeks of mediocre releif (but better than nothing).


I have a second round of shots a few weeks ago and the doctor used a higher dosage in each muscle. This time it has kicked in a little faster (I am about 3 weeks out and starting to notice some significant improvement). It remains to be seen if it will last longer.

Soem muscles it is important to be careful with, definitely ask your doctor how many time rpeviously he has performed the injections. Where are you? Do you have an official diagnosis?

I'd be happy to tell you more or answer any specific questions.

Johanna

Here are two of the botox threads from the TOS forum

Johanna

http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/sh...ighlight=botox


http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/sh...ighlight=botox