How my boy’s nightmare migraines have been cured by botox (From Echo)

How my boy’s nightmare migraines have been cured by botox

8:50am Tuesday 12th October 2010 in Health By Chris Wilkin

SCHOOLBOY Harvey Jacobs suffered from head-splitting migraines for six years until his mum discovered a miracle cure...botox.

The youngster’s life was being ruined by up to 20 blinding migraines a month.

The 12-year-old missed so much school he could not sit his exams.

Mum Sue, 39, said: “He just screamed with the pain and wanted to die. He saw flashing lights and got so sick. It’s been a nightmare.

“It got to the point that I couldn’t do anything.”

Harvey’s migraine attacks lasted up to 24 hours and got so bad he even went for a brain scan.

He also has mild cerebral palsy and epilepsy.

A string of medications failed to cure him, but then Sue read about another treatment in a newspaper.

She took Harvey to a private clinic in London’s Harley Street, where he was given a botox injection above his right eye.

The treatment – often used by ageing celebs to make them look younger – relaxes muscles believed to cause migraines.

The £350 treatment had an astonishing effect.

Sue, of Raycliff Avenue, Clacton, said: “The difference was amazing.

“We’d tried countless medications, coloured lenses and cranial massages, but none of them worked.

“I was so desperate I’d have done anything.

“He used to have 20 migraines a month and they could last all day. Now he still has the odd headache, but they only last an hour.

“He was off school up to three days a week, but this term he hasn’t missed a single day for the first time in six years. He’s like a different child now.”

The treatment lasts two months.

Sue and electrician dad Lee, 41, are trying to raise £4,000 for an operation that will cure him permanently. They hope to go to Berlin at the end of November so Harvey’s specialist can carry out an op, which is not available on the NHS, to remove a muscle.

In the meantime, the Clacton Coastal Academy pupil is enjoying playing computer games with sisters Jasmine and Poppy.

Sue said: “He’s so happy now. He was tiny before because he wasn’t eating. It was that bad.

“Now he’s eating for England.The difference is amazing.”

The Plough pub, at Great Clacton, is staging a fundraising race night for Harvey on November 13 at 7.30pm.