Botulinum toxin injections are not only for beauty. They can also prevent migraines.

Migraine is a common type of headache that should not be overlooked. This is because, in addition to being present in every age group and sex, some people experience frequent, severe and longer pain symptoms that become chronic and affect their daily living. For example, they cannot be able to sleep or be unable to drive or work. In response to this problem, Botox injections today are being used as a way to prevent migraines and give patients more life options. 

Migraine is a common headache that is often incorrectly diagnosed. Migraines frequently occur in working age women, causing moderate to severe headache symptoms. These symptoms continue to worsen due to external stimuli like light, sounds and smells. Some patients also experience nausea and vomiting. Usually, a migraine lasts at least 4 hours, but in some patients the symptoms can last for as long as 3 days.

There are many ways to prevent migraines. These include avoiding triggers, taking preventive medicines, exercise, injecting drugs that suppress the nervous system, and new options like botulinum toxin injection, which is a cosmetic medical technology widely known in the Thai people.

 

Patients who require migraine prevention belong to many groups, e.g., patients who experience headaches, patients who experience headaches frequently, and patients who do not recover from headaches after taking pain medication or who suffer from headaches as a result of excessive use of pain medications. This migraine prevention method reduces the frequency and severity of migraines due to its effects on the nervous system.  

 

Botox used to treat migraines is the same type that is used in the beauty industry, but for migraines, doctors will inject Botox at 31 suitable locations on the head, which is safe method.

 

Although many patients still think that migraine can be treated by taking medications, doctors advise that migraine produces fairly severe symptoms that can affect patients’ quality of life and that sometimes headache symptoms are not caused by migraine but rather another kind of headache, or there might be hidden tumor or brain hemorrhage, which can be dangerous if left untreated. Otherwise, if the symptoms are caused by migraine, but the treatment method is incorrect, and the patient buys medications to treat their own symptoms continuously for too long, headache can be caused by the medications instead, which can be more severe and difficult to treat.

 

In order to ensure that we receive proper treatment, doctors recommend that you should come see a doctor if you experience severe or fairly frequent headaches in order to receive a review of your background and a thorough physical examination in order to start planning treatment that matches the actual root cause.