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Buying Botox Online Without a Prescription?
I have came across a website (discountmedspa.com) selling Botox without prescription. Has anyone bought Botox through the site? Is it safe?
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tarepanda626
in wa
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Buying Botox Online Without a Prescription
This would be a cardinal error. The products offered online are of dubious quality and sometimes unknown substances are substituted for Botox. There have been numerous incidents of patients getting what they thought were Botox injections to find out later with disastrous results that they were not Botox cosmetic but research grade Botox or other substances.
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Botox on line?
Botox is a FDA regulated drug. Any person buying or selling it without being registered with the DEA is breaking the law and subject to penalties. Do not buy Botox on line!!!
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This is so illegal it's staggering!
Whatever this charlatan is selling, it's definitely not Botox. It may well be a botulinum toxin, but let's hope it's not. The dangers of injecting illegal so-called "botox Freeze" and these other products are almost too numerous to count, but include massive overdose and non-sterile packaging.
Think I'm just blowing smoke? The suckers in central Florida who tried a similar scam ended up with tracheostomies and were on ventilators for months when the "research-grade"...
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Never buy Botox online!
Botox and Dysport is only legally sold and injected by medical professionals. Do not buy anything advertised on the internet as Botox for home use. There are specific techniques to injecting Botox and Dysport ($300-350 per area) that only docs and RNs know. Be wary of doctors who offer super cheap Botox. You get what you pay for!
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Very unfortunate...
In a manner of speaking we have made this all look so simple that "even a caveman can do it". Certainly if an aesthetician at a salon can safely inject Botox then anyone should be able to do it at home. Our best and brightest have bowed to the almighty dollar and have trained all comers. The less than ethical have then trained all comers and it comes down to what we witnessed on this UTube Video for the do it yourselfer!
Having stated this, I am totally amazed by those who...
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Botox cannot be purchased without a prescription
Botox cannot be purchased without a prescription and it must be injected by a licensed medical professional. There must be something misleading on this website but don't be taken.
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Dangerous
I guess people will never learn.
I find it amazing that our government allows this. The government permits laypeople to purchase potentially very dangerous medications on line, but began regulating me and my dermatolgy colleagues from performing simple procedures like KOH scrapings ( putting scale on a slide and examining it under the microscope for fungi), Fungal cultures ( looking to see if a fungus grew on a media), Gram stains, etc. Simple, procedures that me and my colleagues had...
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BOTOX should be purchased from Allergan.
Unfortunately, there is counterfeit BOTOX that can be purchased world-wide. One of my patients purchased a vial of BOTOX via the internet for a ridiculously low price. I sent the information to Allergan, and it turned out to be a fake bottle with unknown contents.
I hope this is helpful, and best regards.
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Botox Online
Botox Cosmetic is a prescription drug from the Allergan company. If it is any other product it could be the wrong concentration, impure or unsafe. It has to be kept frozen and handled a certain way, including reconstituted correctly. What would you do with it if you really could get it? Inject yourself? I certainly would recommend against fooling around with a drug like this. Handled correctly with an experienced injector it is great. In the wrong hands or with the wrong product it...
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Online Botox
My first comment is: who and how is going to inject the Botox for you? Next, run far, far away. No one knows the source of online Botox--i.e., if it is gray market product from Canada but really manufactured by Allergan Corp, or water, or worse. It is terrifying that anything of this nature is accessible to lay people online. I would consider it unsafe and potentially deadly as botox is a derivative of a toxin. I have also heard that some online sellers post instructions for...
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Buying "Botox" Online
It is illegal to sell Botox to non-physicians and I seriously doubt that what you will be getting is really Botox. Botox is one of the most fraudulently sold drugs on the Internet with fakes coming from China and other countries. This being the case, why would you risk everything by injecting yourself with a substance whose safety, sterility and concentration you cannot verify? For your safety, do not do it.
Dr. Aldea
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Buying Botox online without a prescription is a very bad idea.
Buying Botox on-line is unsafe and illegal. This is actually a patient safety issue. There are multiple incidences of bogus Botox hurting people. You don't know what you are getting in the bottle. There are many excellent forgeries of the bottle out there. Also, this is not something that should be injected by a layperson in his kitchen.
This is concerns your health. Don't do it on the cheap. Get the real drug and have an experienced...
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Can I buy Botox Online?
In addition to the legality of purchasing a product like Botox online (it's not legal to get it anywhere other than from a physician's office), it could be a very big health risk to do so.
Botulinum toxin is a very dangerous compound when not properly controlled. Anyone selling "knockoff" Botox online is likely to not have the kind of manufacturing, shipping and quality controls in place to properly make, store and ship this kind of product....
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Do not do this
Do not do this. You are jeopardizing your health. Do not trust any botulinum toxin unless it comes from the FDA –approved source. There have been serious complications when people injected a laboratory dose of Botulism.
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Don't try Imitation Botox at home or local spa
Botulinum toxin, commonly known as botox, should only be purchased by a qualified physician for its injection.
Short list of problems with imitation botox:
1. Illegal - Is it worth it to save a few dollars?
2. Likely not going to be effective - I have many patients who are injected with presumed "botox" in other countries where it doesn't work. Pay a little more for a known quantitiy.
3. Technique - While injecting Botox looks easy, there are actually a lot...
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Beware online "Botox"
Purchasing "Botox" online is dangerous. There is no guarantee that the product is truly botulinum toxin, and no reputable physician would inject a product brought into the office by a patient. I would strongly encourage you to avoid online products and see a reputable aesthetic physician for botulinum toxin instead.
Baton Rouge Dermatologist
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Buying Botox Online
A very good chance you will DIE! Seriously. The purity and potency are not controlled. Most likely you will get too little, if any, but as the "doctor" in Florida found out (the one on the respirator), you could get too much.
Austin Dermatologist
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Bogus Botox and Bogus Fillers
Hi T,
I am seldom left speechless, but I now am left without words to describe what I just watched at discountmedspa.com. The self injection "instruction" video along with the $149 per 100 units of "Botoxin" makes me think that maybe I haven't "seen and heard it all".
I cannot believe that this site and business is operating in the face of the diasters that have resulted from "bogus" botulinum toxin use. There will be problems. People who use this...
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Do not buy Botox online
I would recommend that you stay away from any web site that sells Botox online. This should not be done ever and will probably result in problems for any company that sells or any person that buys Botox online.
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Botox online is not worth it
It was very interesting to go and run a search for this website! They even posted on you tube several videos on self-injection of fillers and Botox!
Now, if there is any reason we have one of the best quality health care systems in the world is something called standard of care and safety! There is no reason in my mind to compromise safety or deviate from the standard of care to save few hundred of dollars. Botox could be a dangerous medications if used inappropriately or the wrong drug...
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Be weary of online Botox
FDA Approved Botox Cosmetic is only available for purchase to licensed medical professionals, through the manufacturer, Allergan.
Allergan does not provide discounted or wholesale Botox Cosmetic for online purchase.
To be sure you are getting the authentic product, and avoid unexpected results/complications, I highly recommend you stick to purchasing Botox Cosmetic from Allergan.
Good Luck.
Seattle General Surgeon
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Botox on the internet
Purchasing Botox on line is illegal. You can only get it from a physician through Allergan. Purchasing product online can not be done from this company. Anoher company selling it to you is doing so illegally.
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Botox on Internet
It is illegal, unsafe and unethical. You should definitely stay away from this internet/online discounted Botox. I hope the company that makes Botox, Allergan will look into it.
Regards
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Be wary of internet sales of Botox
Be wary of internet sales of Botox. The active ingredient in Botox is botulinum toxin A and there are only two products currently approved by the FDA (Food and Drug Administration) for human use. One is made by the company Allergan and is marketed under the name of Botox and the other which has been recently approved is marketed by the company Medicis under the trade name of Dysport. If you seek services at a any place, I would always ask to see the bottle the product came from as both have...
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Please be careful-Don't buy what could be fake "Botox" on the internet
Real authentic Botox when injected by an experienced injector is extremely safe. You have now way of knowing what you are getting over the Internet. In addition to being illegal it could be very dangerous, the concentration or number of units may not be appropriate. in Florida several years ago there were some significant side effects when veterinary strength botulinum toxin was injected into humans. As well there may be issues with sterility, not to mention the technique of your injector. ...
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At the end, use your common sense ...
What used to be fishy basement deals are now openly offered via the world wide web. Regulatory limits are important but the misled and creative mind will always find a way around these rules.
One can probably buy dental implants online and find homemakers who screw them into the jaw after watching a DIY video...
A procedure looks "easy" because the experienced physician has performed them hundreds of times before. And we still respect the tiniest possibility for adverse reactions. ...
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