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I’ve getting Botox for 24 years now, and it literally has given me a normal life again. After having migraines from age 11 with rapid shifts of hormonal levels, with my periods, I could handle them because I knew when they were coming. In 2000 I was involved in a car accident with numerous injuries, which included severe whiplash. This started an almost 2 year span where I had constant severe migraines, and because it was a workman’s comp case, I got referred to one neurologist after another - picked by the insurance company. None of them could figure out what “my issue” was, with one telling me it was “all in your head”. Yeah. Finally the workman’s comp doctor sent me to a neurologist he was friends with - and after a 15 minute examination, he diagnosed me with cervical dystonia, caused by the accident. He started me on Botox, and I got my life back. Has anyone else experienced something like this?

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Hi, @mbixler - welcome to Mayo Clinic Connect. Glad to hear the injections have given you a normal life again.

If you'd like to chat with others with cervical dystonia, please check out this discussion:

Anyone else have cervical dystonia? https://connect.mayoclinic.org/discussion/kaia-hi-kaja-this-is-kevin-kelley-just-read-your-post-on/