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Botox 

What it is: Cosmetic injection to relax wrinkle-forming facial muscles intended to reduce fine lines and wrinkles. Botox injections typically last up to 4 months.

What it addresses:

- Lines between eyebrows
- Furrows on forehead
- Crow's feet
- Smile lines
- Neck wrinkles
- Bell's Palsy
- Facial Asymmetry
- Excessive sweating

 
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Botox side effects - Can Botox injections cause blurry vision?

Can vision be affected from Botox going too deep or too much injected? It's been almost a week, had 20 units in each area, and since then it has been really bad. I was soooo swollen like a fish all over and had a bad migraine. Worse though is my vision is blurry.

I wonder if I should see an opthamologist or neurologist. I am an employee of the medspa that had an untrained doc do this, and I have no insurance :(

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Asked by: tamara1980
miami florida

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August 11, 2008

Blurry vision may be unrelated to Botox

D.J. Verret, MD
D.J. Verret, MD
Board Certified
Facial Plastic Surgeon
Answer by D.J. Verret, MD

As Dr. Hoenig points out, your blurry vision may be due to your recent Botox injection, but it may be unrelated.

Injecting the Botox in the wrong area or migration of the Botox can affect the muscles of eye movement as well as the muscles which aid in tearing. If this is the case, it will wear off with time and likely resolve completely.

It would be best to have an ophthalmologist evaluate your eyesight to be sure that there is not something else which is causing the blurry vision.

Web reference: http://innovationsfps.com
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August 11, 2008

Injecting Botox too deeply

Jonathan Hoenig, MD
Jonathan Hoenig, MD

It is possible that the injection was too deep and affected one of the muscles that controls movement of your eyes. To do so, the injection would have to have been unusually deep and nowhere near where it should have been. But, since it was done by a medspa employee, I suppose it's not impossible.

There are many causes of blurry vision. Just because it occurred at the same time as your Botox injection, doesn't mean that's definitely what caused it. You should see an ophthalmologist or a neuro-ophthalmologist to make sure that this is the cause of your problem and that it isn't caused by something else.

If it's from the Botox, it should resolve in 6 weeks or so.

Web reference: http://www.drhoenig.com/botox.html
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