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One week after my Botox injections, I started to have raised eye brows and drooping eyelids. What can I do to make them look normal again? I am currently using Iopidine eye drops.
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shara
in Kitchener ont canada
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Raised eyebrows and drooping lids most common Botox complications
To shara,
Hi. Unfortunately, you have complications that may take 2 months to go away (hopefully less). The good news is, they always go away. The drops are a good idea.
This is why experience and knowledge of anatomy are so important. Botox has to be injected into precisely the correct spots (in general, further away from the eye).
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Give it time
This sounds like a result of the Botox. This will be self correcting over the next several weeks. Nothing you can do will change that, so be patient.
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Time is your friend
You are unfortunately experiencing an uncommon complication of Botox injections, that is, eyelid ptosis or drooping of the eyelids. Lopidine can help, but only time will fully resolve the drooping eyelids. You can expect them to improve as early as 4-6 weeks and almost certainly by 2-3 months. You should be reassurred that this is not a permanent problem.
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Raised Eyebrows and Drooping Lid after botox
Hi Shara. Unwanted effects related to botox treatment are always temporary and will resolve with time. Unless the area of your concern received a full treatment of botox directly, unintended effects of treatment typically resolve within weeks. Discuss your concerns with your doctor. In some cases, overly raised brows may be addressed with additional botox treatment to the brow elevators. Until the effects of the botox wear off, the eye drops that you are using may help to improve the...
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Lopodine and time are your allies
Dear Shara,
It sounds like some of the Botox migrated to the muscles that effect your upper eyelid. Lopodine may help but it may take some time (a few weeks) until you begin to see results. As the Botox begins to wear off, you will also notice an improvement. In these instances, I recommend patience and not doing anything drastic. You should not have any long lasting effects.
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Eye drops, few Botox units and wait!
It seems that some of the Botox injected went into the upper eyelid orbicularis muscle and this caused the lid drop (ptosis).
The eyebrow elevation is from weakness of the depressors of the brow, so the frontalis muscle (elevator) took over. This could be a desired effect, however if excessive, it could lead to an unattractive look.
To fix this:
Few units of Botox above the eyebrow will weaken the frontalis and will drop the brow.
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Drooping Eyelids
Too much Botox into the obicularis oculi muscle can cause drooping eyelids and raised eyebrows several ways. The raised eyebrows are due to frontalis compensating of the eyelid ptosis and paralysis of the obicularis side of the antagonistic muscle pair.
If you did not have preexisting compensated eyelid ptosis, your eyelid ptosis is probably due to botox paralysis of the levator palpebrae. Additional eyelid ptosis is probably due to the inability of the frontalis to fully compenstate...
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Just wait.
Dear Shara I just completed a study of 7 patients who developed severe ptosis after BOTOX. Generally upper eyelid ptosis or drooping after BOTOX is rare and resolves within 4 to 6 weeks. These 7 individuals were more unusual in that their ptosis persisted for 7 or more weeks and in one case lasted a full year. In these individuals Iopodine was initially ineffective. The Iopodine only became effective about 4 to 6 weeks before the drooping of the upper eyelids wore off. Consequently,...
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Raised eyebrows and drooping lid after Botox will get better with time
Shara,
It sounds like you had an unfortunate outcome with Botox. Beside the Iopidine drops, which should help lift your lids a few millimeters, there really is not much that you can do. The good thing is that Botox is always temporary. For your raised brows, you can have them inject a small about of Botox (3 units) 1 cm above the lateral brow. Good luck with your recovery.
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Depends on whether you have a true lid ptosis
It is very important to determine whether you have a true lid ptosis or brow droop.
If you have a brow ptosis, one eye opening (distance from top lid to bottom lid) is smaller than the other. In this case it should resolve within 2 weeks and you should be seeing some improvement with Iopidine.
If your brows are "weighting down" your lid skin, this is a injector induced problem from overtreating the forehead (frontalis muscle). In this case it will take several weeks to 3 months...
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