Vertigo After Botox - What can I do to get rid of vertigo?

Andrea

It is to be expected with BOTOX that extremely rare idiosyncratic responses to the drug are seen.  It does not really matter that they are so rare that a highly experienced injector has not seen them before.  If you do enough treatment, you will encounter almost everything.  The vertigo may or may not be a direct toxic effect of the BOTOX.  However, 3 or 4 days is about when the treatment begins to take effect so it is certainly possible that what you are describing is a direct toxic systemic effect.  It would certainly be understandable that it would create anxiety.  My advice is to avoid BOTOX treatment in the future.  If you are not convinced, you might try treatment one more time but certainly if the vertigo happens again, then don't fight this.  Just accept that you have an unusual sensitivity to a very rare side effect and avoid both BOTOX and Dysport treatments in the future.  Again it just does not matter that others don't have this reaction.  Ultimately it is about what works or does not work for your body.

There are no clinical reports indicating a cause and effect between vertigo and botox.  I have treated patients since 1993 with Botox for cosmetic uses and have never had one patient report to me such a side effect of vertigo.  It may be, as an example,  that someone develops an unrelated symptom of a different disease within a few days, coincidentally, such as a viral sore throat, but that can't be blamed on the Botox which was injected previously.
 

Hi Andrea.  We have had patients report any number of issues after receiving Botox injections, including one recent patient that she attributed sinus pain that occurred three months after injection to Botox.  

While it may be simple to attribute health issues or problems after injections to Botox, most are not related.  Even though others on the internet may have reported vertigo after injection, there is no clinical data to suggest that vertigo would be related to the Botox.  The manufacturer does track reported side effects and this is not one of them.  

The anxiety is a different issue altogether, but same conclusion, it would not be related to Botox.  Good luck.