Migraine

Service Description

Migraine PREEMPT protocol cost £800 Mini migraine/bad headache cost £425 How can Botulinum toxin injections help with migraines? Botulinum toxin is approved for the treatment of chronic migraine (15 or more headache days a month, each lasting 4 or more hours) based on evidence of efficacy from the PREEMPT clinical trials. In these trials botulinum toxin injections prevented on average 8 to 9 headache days a month and improved quality of life for migraine sufferers. What is involved in the treatment? You will first have a face-to-face consultation with your doctor and go through a medical history and migraine questionnaire to assess your suitability for the treatment. If you are suitable your forehead, temporalis, trapezius, neck and scalp is mapped and the approved dose of botulinum toxin of 155 Units is administered at 31 injection sites divided across 7 specific head/neck muscle areas. The injections are administered using a tiny needle and are not painful. Onset of migraine relief will take usually 2 weeks and the effects will last for 3 months. We offer a ‘mini’ migraine/tension headache/eye strain botulinum toxin treatment for £375 which is the usual 3 areas treatment (frown, forehead & crow’s feet) – this mini treatment doesn’t treat the trapezius, temporalis and occipitalis muscles. The mini treatment whilst not the full migraine botulinum toxin protocol does lessen frequency and severity of headaches for many people.