Botox Touch Up Caused Brows to Lower, How Long Until I See Improvement?

asked 8 months ago by HMiller in Texas
Latest answer by Yelena Frankel, MD
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Tags: droopy, 1 week post-op, final result, timing

I had a botox touch-up 8 days ago to my forehead to correct creases that formed over the outer brow whenever I raised my eyebrows.(had 20 units to forehead lines and 20 to frownlines 1.5 months prior). Doctor added 20 more units(seemed excessive) and now my eyebrows now have NO movement, my brow dropped/straightened and is very low. I'm afraid to get more botox,but I am a little desperate to fix this since we have an important trip in a week. Anything I can do?

9 answers to Botox Touch Up Caused Brows to Lower, How Long Until I See Improvement?

Too much Botox to forehead - is there a remedy?

Dosing the forehead requires meticulous technique with placement and proper dosing to avoid what you are describing. With a forehead muscle that is too relaxed, your "compensatory mechanism" (the ability for you to lift using this muscle) has been taken away...temporarily. As other panel members suggested, this should improve with time as the effects gradually wear off. Using the lateral brow technique to try and help this situation may or may not help. ... more

Harold J. Kaplan, MD
Los Angeles Facial Plastic Surgeon

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Botox to help eyebrows

Botox cosmetic takes 3-6 months to wear off. This is why it's so important to know exactly what muscles to inject and what amounts of Botox to use in each area. Injecting a small amount of Botox into the muscles that pull the forehead down may help raise the eyebrows a little. These muscles are near the lateral eyebrows. However, Botox takes several days to 2 weeks to work. If your trip is in a few days, the treatment will probably not work in time. more

Yelena Frankel, MD
Baltimore Dermatologic Surgeon

Need to wait

You need to wait until you have some movement in the forehead/brow elevation and then go back in to have a touch up (small dose of 2 to 3 units) in order to paralyze the brow depressors more allowing the brows to go up more.

Andre Aboolian, MD
Beverly Hills Plastic Surgeon

Resolve Dropped Eyebrow from Botox

The bad news is that your muscle is temporarily unable to move. The good news is that it's temporary. While there are prescription eye drops that can help if it's actually the eyelid that's dropped or immobile, these drops will not help if it's actually the eyebrow that's unable to move. There is a machine called the Pan G which is like a workout for facial muscles. It's two probes that can be placed in varying locations on the face and generate a pulse that target... more

F. Victor Rueckl, MD
Las Vegas Dermatologist

www.lakesdermatology.com

Fixing a dropped brow

At this point, if the brow is completely knocked out, it is very difficult to impossiblt to raise it. Sometimes the tail or lateral brow can be elevated a bit by injected just below the eyebrow laterally to treat the orbicularis oculi muscle. Otherwise, you have to let it wear off.

Steven Wallach, MD
Manhattan Plastic Surgeon

Botox and brow drop

I think you are going to have to wait until you get some movement back in your lateral forehead area. Then you can have a tiny amount of Botox ( 1-3 units) injected in the brow depressor muscles, but you must have some movement back to lift the brows. The good and the bad with Botox is that the effects are temporary!

Sheri G. Feldman, MD
Beverly Hills Dermatologist

Botox dropped Brow anything I can do?

Botox dropped Brow anything I can do? Yes, you can go back to the MD that did the Botox and see if they're willing to even things out. You can actively try and raise the brows as well as close the eyes which will work all the muscles. This tends to make the Botox wear off more quickly.

Francis R. Palmer, III, MD
Beverly Hills Facial Plastic Surgeon

Brow

This is a placement and dose question. I never use that much Botox for touch ups. Your lifting muscle has been completley paralyzed. Adding Botox to the depressor muscles may help but, i doubt it. You have no lifting power.

David A. Bray, Sr., MD
Los Angeles Facial Plastic Surgeon

Fixing a Dropped Brow after Botox

The situation you describe is tough. With 40 total units injected over the past 6 weeks, I would not be surpised if it took 6 months or more before the brow droop corrected itself. Your best option, unfortunately, is more Botox. What is done is the muscle that pulls the brow down is weakened and the position of the lateral eyebrow will improve. It will unlikely correct the entire problem, but it should be a little better.