Why Try Botox?
If your headache is caused by arthritis in your neck or a tumor or other abnormality inside of your skull, it shouldn’t be improved by weakening the muscles of the brow or the back of the head with Botox. The opposite is also true: If weakening those muscles temporarily with Botox results in pain relief, it is logical to think that they play a significant role in your pain. Trying Botox for headache, then, can be viewed as a test to determine whether those muscles are causing your pain, and a preview of what you might expect to experience from one or more of the surgical procedures discussed here in more detail. Just as patients are the best judges of the severity of their head problems, patients are the best judges of the benefit Botox blocks afford them. We attempt to objectively quantify the pre-treatment severity of head pain, as well as its response to our various treatments, but ultimately patients tell us when it’s time to try Botox, when it’s time to talk seriously about surgic
