Dr. Cara McDonald
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So that's good.
I mean, we can use ice.
Numbing cream is not that helpful because... You've got to sit there for half an hour.
And the pain doesn't come actually from putting the needle through the skin.
That's actually, you barely feel it.
It's the little bit of fluid being injected under the surface that stings more.
So a lot of people think that numbing cream will help though.
And so sometimes it's good for the placebo effect.
Oh, so many, so many areas.
There's actually about 50 different uses for neurotoxins in medicine.
So there are a huge number of things.
The things we use it commonly for are the clenching, so the jaw pain, teeth grinding, and also underarm sweating, which is called hyperhidrosis.
And so we use it in people who generally have
Excessive sweating, some people who have wet patches on their clothes.
Medicare cover that?
It actually does.