Can Botox Injections Cause Blurry Vision?

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.... more

If used incorrectly, botox can affect the muscles that move the eye. When these muscles are affected the two eyes do not move in sync and thus problems with vision can occur as if you were cross-eyed. The only good news here is that if you can wait long enough, the botox will wear off and you should return to normal.

Botox is a powerful toxin, thus a powerful drug. It has to be used with caution even by experienced Dermatologists or Plastic Surgeons who are familiar with the complex anatomy around the eyes and inside the orbit. If you had no similar symptoms prior to the Botox injections, the fact that your double vision happened right after the Botox injections, makes it very likely that there is a cause to effect relationship. Most likely, one of the muscles involved in the... more

"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 am an employee of the medspa that had an untrained doc do this..." Botox is a drug and Botox injection is a medical procedure. Having a MD degree does not magically confer experience, common sense, knowledge of facial a more

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... more