Re: Botox Frustration

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That's always so frustrating when something you have hopes for doesn't work

well.I hope they support you through this.

Carolyn Eddy

" Sweet Goat Mama "

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Jade the details are different and i don't have ACM but the same problems

constantly occur with me. You try something to fix one thing and the side

effects are worse than the original disease. That is why I have been so leery

about changing any of my medications.

I take amytriptiline for pain from Fibromyalgia, TMJ, Vulvodynia, and as a

migraine preventive. I have been told maybe i should switch to Lyrica or

Cymbalta but they aren't drugs used for the other purposes I take the

Amytriptiline for.

Besides the druggist refused to even fill a prescription for me when I had one

for Cymbalta due to the high risk of seizures and bad interaction with my

Migraine meds.

I haven't had seizures from the amytritiline I have taken for 7 years now. I

also take verapamil which gives me low blood pressure and I take 3-4 asthma

medications when I need to for asthma. They give me heart palpitations along

with the amytriptiline so I try and limit taking them unless i absolutely have

to and cant breathe.

When I had Botox I had a similar problem too as the muscles in my neck were also

injected and then I couldn't even lift my arms up above my head and had so much

weakness that it caused pain in other areas of my back.

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>Jade wrote:

Now that the botox has the trapezius muscle paralyzed, I can feel the full

weight of my arm because I have no muscle to hold it up. Then I

My point, I guess is that I think some things are novel and useful, like the

botox for example. While it did nothing for the original nerve pain that I had,

it did work on the original trapezius muscle spasm that it was intended to fix.

On the other hand, I would warn anyone with ACM to watch out before paralyzing

any muscles near the neck. Looking back I have to wonder what I was thinking. At

the time of the injection my mind was soaring at the idea that maybe one day I

would be off pain medication for my nerve pain.

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, jade tadaima wrote:

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> My point, I guess is that I think some things are novel and useful, like the

botox for example. While it did nothing for the original nerve pain that I had,

it did work on the original trapezius muscle spasm that it was intended to fix.

On the other hand, I would warn anyone with ACM to watch out before paralyzing

any muscles near the neck. Looking back I have to wonder what I was thinking.

At the time of the injection my mind was soaring at the idea that maybe one day

I would be off pain medication for my nerve pain.

>

> Oh well, live and learn. I'm living my mistake now. The doctor I saw today

said that I can expect to have this pulling, pressure, headache, neck, cramping,

pain and all the low blood pressure an shakiness to continue for 6 months or at

least until the botox wears off. One member of this c_p list said 3 months. I

am hoping for 3 months.

Jade,

Most of us have more than one thing that comes with our pain, and when one thing

gets better, we feel the other thing that has something wrong.

For me, it is my back, then the SI joint, then the hip. One depends on the

other and I get muscle shearing when I walk that hurts my hip.

I am so sorry this happened to you and the doctor I saw said that this Botox was

a last option for me and I will now take the information you

gave me so I will be sure to mention this and thank you for sharing. Bennie