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Chronic Migraine
A medical appointment for chronic migraine on Wimpole Street. Suitability is assessed at consultation by a prescriber, and your clinician explains what to expect before anything is booked.
At a glance
- For Chronic migraine, 15 or more headache days a month
- Given as Injections across head, neck and shoulders
- Interval Every 12 weeks
- Assessment Prescribing clinician, with a headache diary
- Available at Wimpole Street, London
What it is and why it happens
Chronic migraine has a specific definition, and your clinician talks it through with you at consultation.
Chronic migraine means fifteen or more headache days a month, of which at least eight have migraine features, sustained for three months or more. That is a substantially different condition from frequent bad headaches, and anyone who lives with it knows how much of life it takes up.
For that specific group, a treatment given by injection is assessed at consultation by a prescriber, and your clinician explains the protocol and what to expect.
Regents Park Aesthetics is there for anyone who would like to be seen privately and promptly.
Regents Park Aesthetics treats chronic migraine at the Wimpole Street clinic, in the Harley Street medical district, as a medical appointment rather than a cosmetic one.
How we assess and treat
Assessment at Regents Park Aesthetics starts with a headache diary, and we will ask you to keep one for a month if you have not. Frequency, duration, features and triggers all help shape the plan.
Your clinician looks at the whole picture and explains what to expect before anything is booked.
We confirm the pattern meets the chronic migraine definition before anything is planned.
We ask what you have already tried. That history shapes the plan your clinician builds with you. Your clinician runs through your medical history at the consultation.
Which treatment for your type of headache?
As a guide, this is how we typically match each type to a treatment. Your own plan is always confirmed at consultation, and where a specialist would serve you better, your clinician refers you.
Treatments that address it
| Chronic Migraine Injections A series of small injections given by a prescribing clinician, assessed at consultation, with your clinician explaining what to expect. | Masseter Treatment Where jaw clenching is part of the picture, masseter treatment is assessed at consultation by a prescriber, who explains what to expect. | |
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| £350 | £450 | |
| Explore Chronic Migraine Injections | Explore Masseter Treatment |
- £350
- £450
Compared side by side
Can you treat it at home?
A headache diary is the single most useful thing you can do. Patterns that are invisible day to day become obvious over a month, and it is also what any neurologist will ask for.
The evidence-based basics are simple and they work. Regular sleep, including at weekends, since both too little and too much trigger attacks. Regular meals, since skipped meals and dehydration are among the most consistent triggers. Reducing caffeine gradually rather than abruptly, because withdrawal itself causes headache.
Your clinician can talk through everyday habits and triggers at your consultation.
Identify your own triggers rather than adopting a list. Red wine, aged cheese, chocolate and bright light are common and individual, so keep enjoying the foods that agree with you.
Your diary is also the place to note anything you take during an attack, so your clinician has the full picture.
Frequently Asked Questions
Fifteen or more headache days a month, of which at least eight have migraine features, sustained for three months or more. Fewer than fifteen days is episodic migraine, which has its own preventative options.
Your clinician talks through the routes available to you at the consultation.
From £350, repeated every twelve weeks. We quote at consultation once the diagnosis is confirmed.
As a series of small injections at fixed points across the forehead, temples, back of the head, neck and shoulders, by a prescribing clinician. The appointment takes around thirty minutes.
Every twelve weeks. That is the interval the protocol was studied at and the one used in clinical practice.
Response is assessed over cycles rather than after a single round. National guidance is to review after two cycles, and we follow it, so you always know exactly where you stand.
It is a preventative approach rather than a treatment for an attack in progress, and your clinician explains what to expect at consultation.
A series of small injections with a very fine needle. Most patients describe brief stings, and the appointment is over quickly.
Masseter treatment, assessed at consultation by a prescriber, is a different appointment from the migraine protocol.
Bring the details to your consultation, and your clinician talks you through what it means for your plan.
Feel like yourself, on a good day.
A medically led clinic where every plan starts with an assessment and every injectable is placed by a medical professional, so the result looks like you on your best day.