Fewer Headache Days: Botox for Chronic Migraine Stories

Inside this volume

Fifty first-person accounts describe Botox injections for chronic migraine, given as a preventive treatment in rounds about every twelve weeks. Writers came to it after years of headaches on most days, often with a diary showing twenty or more a month, and one had to cut back on painkillers before anything else could change. Contributors include a teacher of nine-year-olds, a long-distance truck driver, an electrician working in hot roof spaces, an intensive care nurse, a London bus driver on early shifts, a paramedic, a drummer, a hairdresser, a family doctor, a pharmacist, an army veteran after a blast, and a seventy-four-year-old starting for the first time. They write from Leeds to Mumbai, Manitoba to São Paulo. Many describe the practical side: fear of needles, the sting of the neck injections, a drooping eyelid, keeping braids in, fasting around appointments, paying out of pocket, winning an insurance appeal and driving four hours each way. Work and family run through it, from a single mother of two to a grandmother of eight getting her afternoons back. Results vary widely. Some went from most days to a handful a month; one writer missed the cut by a single day; one felt no difference at all; and another felt the benefit fade by week nine. Nearly all of them kept a diary.

Who it's for

For adults living with chronic migraine who are weighing Botox injections or already having them, and for the partners, families and employers who see the cancelled plans.

Format · Instant download · PDF & EPUB · Fifty first-person accounts · PDF: 255 pages

A collection of personal testimony, offered as companion reading — not medical advice.

• 50 single-author testimonies from real people
• A short, plain-language introduction to the topic
• Editor's note, contents page, and curated resource list
• Professional interior typesetting and an original cover

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