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humofhurt

First botox treatment and I want to rip my head off

I had pretty bad migraines before the treatment (compounded by the horrible heatwave in Europe) but a couple of weeks after my first botox treatment, injections in forehead, shoulders, neck and temples, I can say it's gotten worse. Less regular, but if they do hit me, they are very bad and long and usually sit in the same space of my head (right/back of my head) which is new. Before the botox, the migraines were often (almost daily) and they lingered, but also they would pass. Now I sit with migraines that keep me up during the night also with triptans. I'm at my wits end. Like I genuinely lost all my social connections over the last years and any semblance of routine, and I'm unemployed, and I hate this fucking illness. Anyone gone through something similar? I wonder if I should tough it out and do a couple more sessions but life like this is genuinely unbearable.

Posted Sep 8, 2026, 5:07 PM UTC

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