Puffy Upper Eyelids After Botox?

This is an effect of Botox on the upper lids that have lost some of their squeezing power. Most likely your physician injected a bit more Botox into your forehead (frontalis) and this has caused downward pressure on the upper lid. It probably gave you a good result on your forehead, but at the expense of this mild complication. The good news is that this weakness of the upper lid will last only a few weeks. In the meantime you could use Teamine eye complex or Neo-Strata Under Eye.... more

Hi! Botox relaxes muscles so that -- very rarely -- they cannot squeeze liquid in the tissues out, and you look puffy. As you are upright during the day, gravity drains the fluid out, and you look better. This will last 2 or 3 months. Next time, I would try fewer units of Botox, and farther away from your eyes.

Botox works by essentially paralyzing the muscle it is injected into. Soft tissues of the eyelid are very sensitive to fluid shifts and occasional swelling or puffy eyes is normal at any time. As the fine circular musculature surrounding the eyes contract, they act as a pump to squeeze the fluids away from the orbit and back into the circulation. if the muscle is weakened or not functioning from the Botox, this fluid will take longer to drain so to speak. I have seen puffiness from... more