When Sarah, a 42-year-old teacher first came to our clinic, she was experiencing migraine headaches roughly 20 days per month. She had lived with migraines since her twenties, but over three years the attacks had escalated from occasional to nearly constant. Every preventive medication she tried ended the same way; abandoned because of side effects. “Every pill either made me exhausted, foggy, or nauseous,” she told us. “I honestly believed I was untreatable.”
Sarah’s story is remarkably common. Many people labelled “migraine headache treatment resistant” are simply highly sensitive to oral medications. What they need isn’t another pill, but a different approach entirely. After a comprehensive assessment by our migraine headache expert, Sarah was diagnosed with chronic migraine and identified as an excellent candidate for Therapeutic Botox: a series of small, precisely placed injections across the forehead, temples, back of the head, neck, and shoulders, a 15-minute appointment she described as “far easier than I feared.”
SARAH’S RESULTS AT A GLANCE
● Before: ~20 headache days/month ● After 2nd cycle: 8 days ● After 3rd cycle: 4–5 days● No systemic side effects ● 15 minutes, every 12 weeks
The change wasn’t instant, and we told her not to expect that. But by her second Therapeutic Botox Treatment cycle Sarah was down to eight migraine headache days a month, and by her third she was averaging four to five, with milder attacks that responded better to rescue medication. “I’m planning things again,” she says. “Dinners, weekends, my daughter’s volleyball tournaments. I stopped living around my migraine.”
HOW THERAPEUTIC BOTOX CAN HELP
How Therapeutic Botox Made the Difference for Sarah
Because Botox works locally at the nerves rather than circulating through the bloodstream, Sarah experienced none of the systemic side effects that had derailed her previous migraine headache treatments and her outcome reflects exactly what large clinical trials confirm: significantly fewer, milder chronic migraine attacks, even for patients who haven’t succeeded with oral medications.
Those trials are why Botox is approved for chronic migraine by Health Canada, the FDA, and comparable government agencies worldwide — tested, proven, and trusted. If Sarah’s story sounds like yours, real migraine headache relief is possible. Contact the migraine headache clinic Burlington ON residents trust to find out whether Botox is right for you.
To find out if Therapeutic Botox is right for you, schedule a consultation with Dr. Jared Nabeta, your Migraine headache specialist in Burlington. Call (905) 639-6701 or book online at NabetaDentistry.com/appointment-request.
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