To begin we must first understand what is Botox. Also known as the botulinum toxin, botox is a medicine that is a neurotoxin. Neurotoxins are the medicines that attack our nerve cells. Botox was actually made & approved by the FDA in order to fight back the conditions of hyperactivity of the muscles. Actually the theory of Botox is to weaken or paralyze the muscles by inhibiting the release of acetylcholine in the person’s body. Further, the acetylcholine is an ester of choline that plays an essential role in the transmission of the nerve impulses at the synapses & myoneural that is the muscle nerve junctions. With the inhibition the release of acetylcholine, one’s nerves can not cause the muscle contraction and hence the muscles get relaxed. This drug is given by injecting directly in to the affected muscles.
This drug is quite effective in relieving the pain of migraine. Hence, botox is great relief to headaches. Now the researchers are trying to use botox as a treatment to the chronic headaches, especially the tension or stress headaches & migraines. Usually stress or tension headache is caused due to self induced stress that further causes the tightness of muscles that leads to mild and / or moderate pain across your forehead, at the back of your head, and / or through out your head. Migraines of all sorts tend to produce a pulsating or pounding pain on one side of your head. These are frequently accompanied by nausea, visual disturbances, and / or sensitivity to light and / or sound.
Botox is now a commonly suggested drug for almost all migraine patients these days. Besides the neurosurgeons, now the plastic surgeons are also suggesting their patients to take Botox as the drug helps reduces the wrinkles on the face and reduces the headache in those patients as well.