Botox for Migraines Cost

What Is Botox for Migraines?

Botox for migraines is a medical treatment that places small doses of Botox across set muscles of the forehead, temples, scalp, upper neck and shoulders. Each injection interrupts the nerve signals reaching those muscles and reduces activity in the pain pathway running alongside them, so the sensitized network that keeps restarting attacks is calmed. The treatment is preventive and is given on a 12-week cycle, and the effect builds across several cycles before it is fully established. Chronic migraine, meaning 15 or more headache days a month, is an FDA-approved indication for Botox.

Botox for Migraines at Beauty and Fly

Migraine injections at the Bronxville and Bridgehampton offices are given by Catherine Curtin, MSN, FNP-C. The established chronic migraine protocol sets the structure, and the points are marked fresh at each visit, weighted toward the muscles involved in that patient's own headache pattern.

Is Botox for Migraines Right for You?

• Botox for migraines suits adults with chronic migraine, meaning 15 or more headache days a month. It also has a place for patients whose attacks begin with aura, and for those caught in a rebound pattern from frequent pain medication.

• It addresses how often migraine attacks arrive and how hard they hit, along with the band of tension-type headache that runs from the forehead into the neck alongside migraine.

• Headache history, current medications and every treatment already tried are reviewed at the consultation. Headaches that do not meet the chronic migraine criteria are referred back to your physician.

What Are the Benefits of Botox for Migraines?

Headache days fall for many patients, and the attacks that still arrive often end sooner and hit less hard. Prevention acts on the pain pathway itself, which matters most for patients whose pain medication has started driving the headaches. Forehead and frown lines often soften as well, since the protocol places Botox at points that are also treated cosmetically. Botox is $15.50 per unit, and the number of units depends on how many injection points are needed. Consultations are complimentary and there is no deposit.