Botox

[suzsull48]

Has anyone heard of research published in the Lancet that suggests that Botox injections (administered under the care of a Neurologist) help to relieve RLS?

[SueJohnson]

"Botulinum toxin injections at the applied dose can reduce the severity of symptoms in RLS up to 6 weeks. Moreover, the quality of life of the RLS patient can be improved for up to 6 weeks post-injection, and pain and discomfort diminished for 4 weeks." according to a placebo controlled study. Very interesting!

[RCHD in reply to SueJohnson]

Wow, how does this work? Where are the injections put? How can we find out more information about this??

[SueJohnson in reply to RCHD]

neurologylive.com/view/botu...

[Joolsg]

We'll just have to find neurologists prepared to do this. There's a severe shortage of UK neurologists & the few with basic knowledge of RLS are probably not trained in botox administration.

[suzsull48 in reply to Joolsg]

Apparently there is one in Salford, Manchester, or so I’ve read somewhere

[Joolsg in reply to suzsull48]

We'll have to find out who he/she is.

[Hidden]

Interesting. I see Shumbah (a forum member) had botox injections in the legs 3 years ago for RLS....

[Hope61]

I have never heard of this in the U.S. that would. Be amazing if it worked

[Hidden]

Where would the Botox be injected?

[Hidden in reply to Hidden]

That's what i was wondering too. So i looked it up and found that botox is administered in certain muscles of the affected limb.

[SueJohnson in reply to Hidden]

"in the tibialis anterior, gastrocnemius, and hamstring muscle each side" per neurologylive.com/view/botu...

[slimweiss]

My HWP gets botox in his neck and traps to help with his posture and in his left arm to help stop his arm from curling. Too soon to tell yet as he has had only two treatments in his upper body and one in his arm. His movement disorder neurologist does it and insurance pays for it. He has to wait 3 months in between injections. She said it usually takes a few injections to see improvement.

[Believer1234]

Did anyone get the bottom of whether Botox would be an appropriate treatment? My physio has just found a paper on it and said that the trial results were very positive.