I really do like my neurologist. He is a good doctor. He is the only doctor I've ever had who has called me repeatedly to check on me. I understand that as his first botox patient he may have a professional interest in how I am doing as much as anything else. But regardless of his motives - I feel good that he calls me to check up.
I have been keeping track of not only the days I have headaches, but the severity. My scale is 1-5 (I stole my scale from the book "Chocolate & Vicodin".) 5 is obviously the most severe. The month prior to the botox shots I had 2 level 5 headaches, 7 level 4 headaches, 10 level 3 headaches, 7 level 2 headaches, and 1 level 1 headache. Not a single day without any sort of headache at all. The first month after the botox injections I had only 1 level 5, 8 level 4's, 10 level 3's, 8 level 2's, and 1 level 1 again. Still a headache every single day, though. Still it would seem like an improvement.
I had told my neurologist I didn't think it was helping as I still was having headaches. I knew that it didn't always make them go away completely, but should make them occur less frequently and with less inensity.
Is it working? I'm still not sure. And month 2 tells a very different story than month 1.
6 level 5 headaches -four of those in a row :( 10 level 4 headaches, 9 level 3's, 3 level 2, and not a single level 1. Also, a headache every single day for that month.
(In case I didn't already point this out - these botox shots are into muscle and the botox shots the plastic surgeon does are into nerves - so the outcomes from the treatments could be very different.)
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