Botox to thank as bride-to-be overcomes ten years of pain

05 May 2009

Over the past couple of years, researchers have unveiled a host of additional benefits of the anti-ageing drug, including its ability to combat migraines.

Now, the Daily Mail has reported that Antonia Blake is now able to enjoy a relatively normal lifestyle ten years after the incident which left her confined to bed in pain for 12 hours a day.

The 36-year-old explained that, by giving her Botox jabs alongside traditional physiotherapy, her new team of doctors were able to reduce the pain significantly.

"Her treatment included the use of steroid injections to damp down the pain and Botox injections which gave the effect of localised paralysis," said Dr Kathryn Davies from the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital.

"Now she bounces into the clinic looking healthy and happy. She made herself better, but with a bit of help from us."

At the end of last month, Dr Sid Gautam of DermaSkin.co.uk advised that Botox injections could stave off depression by giving people a self-confidence boost.