Botox makes your brain work better!!


Posted by Narelle Lehane ® , Jan 27,2002,20:40   Archive
A report in the Australian (national) newspaper today (Monday Jan 28) says that botox stimulates the brain - this was noticed after scans on the brains of children with cerebral palsy who are being treated with botox! What a classic :)
I quote "The first phase of a study by Melbourne's Murdoch Children's Research Insitutue and the Brian Research Institute has discovered once inactive areas of the brain show significant signs of activity after botox injections into stiff limbs...it suggests that botox is allowing the brain to reorganise,(which) it did not do without intervention".
So that's why i'm so amazingly intelligent, hehe, i'm reorganised!!!!
Narelle
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Botox and the brain and GERD

Re : Botox makes your brain work better!! --- Narelle Lehane
Posted by sharon ® , Jan 28,2002,09:42 Top of Thread Archive
I have had AD/SD for 13 years. I find very interesting Narelle's comment on the brain followed by the comments on GERD and would like to address both from my perspective.

I told my doctor that emphatically, "my brain works better following my Botox shots." I think he thought I needed a shrink....maybe it WAS just the lessening of stress, but I attribute Botox to bringing my intelligence quotient up to what it gets to be pre-Botox. It is a real fact for me.

I was diagnosed as having acid reflux years ago by my ENT because I had an ulcer beside my vocal cords that would not go away...even with reflux meds (up to triple dosages) every day. I had no symptoms other than raw, bad tasting mouth (and the ulcer) and could not understand WHY the variety of reflux meds would not help. I took them for several years. To the contrary, the 24 hr PH probe showed NO reflux on meds, but considerable reflux off meds. I decided to have the reflux laproscopic surgery (last August) where they cinch up the top of the stomach opening making the opening from the stomach to the esophagus much smaller. Thus the floodgates have been closed for acid, bile - whatever - to come up as powerfully as they had been doing. In the past 5 months, the QUALITY of my voice following Botox has improved tremendously and the duration of shots AND quality is longer. It's hard to say what the improvement should be attributed to because I have also changed doctors in the past year which gave me a little improvement, but since reflux surgery I feel I've seen marked improvement on quality and duration following my shots....to the point of considering Dr. Berke's surgery, but now have decided I can deal with this a while longer. Has anyone else had similar experiences?




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Re : Botox makes your brain work better!! --- Narelle Lehane
Posted by Laurie ® , Jan 28,2002,11:50 Top of Thread Archive
My thoughts on this are that when botox is working for cerebral palsy or SD etc., it gives the body/brain a chance to stop focusing on spasming/pain/etc. and instead fully interact with the world as others do, thus increasing brain activity. Pain and illness or even a spasming voice can be very physically and emotionally distracting, not allowing one to perform at one's intellectual best.

So I doubt it's the botox having any direct systemic or neurological effect, but instead a secondary reaction arising from the fact that the person is finally (temporarily) free from the distracting/consuming nature of their illness.

Laurie




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Re : Re: Botox makes your brain work better!! --- Laurie
Posted by Narelle Lehane ® , Jan 29,2002,00:11 Top of Thread Archive
Knowing the intricacy of the Brain's chemistry, i think that any treatment that stops an involuntary movement would probably allow for changes in chemistry, as it is chemistry that cause these problems in the first place. Any increased brain activity involves chemical reactions. I believe it's a little more complicated than just one's brain having time out...the activity was noted to be ongoing, after the botox has worn off. This may well explain why some people's SD gets better the more botox treatments they have? I was not insinuating that it actually made me smarter...I think the physical relief definitely played a part in my feeling "brainier" after one :)

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Posted by gavin hadley ® , Jan 28,2002,13:59 Top of Thread Archive
I had botox injections this morning and I feel just as slow as I did yesterday. How long does it take to kick in? I hope quickly as I have to take the written test for my driver's license soon.



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Re : Re: Botox makes your brain work better!! --- gavin hadley
Posted by Narelle Lehane ® , Feb 03,2002,20:04 Top of Thread Archive
With some brains there's just no hope matey :)
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Narelle



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Posted by janice yarbro ® , Jan 31,2002,22:21 Top of Thread Archive
I think we have better observation skills than the average person because the SD did not allow us to communicate verbally. Once we received the botox and communication became easier we all had the enhanced skill and regained the ability to communicate. Probably stimulate the brain as Navarelle stated.



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