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Can Botox Make Your Eye Lids Droopy if Your Doctors Says It Was Going to Happen Anyways?
i had botox done for the first time I never had droopy eyelids before. I was told by the doctor who did it that the botox just showed what was going to happen anyways and that I need a brow lift now. I had never had droopy eylids before. What should I do?
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jennyrossi72
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Botox and droopy brows
Some people are more prone than others to developing a droopy brow after Botox. For those people whose brows are starting to descend but they don't realize it, the upper eyelids can come down as the same complex with the forehead. As this gradually occurs when we age past the mid thirties, the forehead muscle starts to contract at rest. In other words, there is a resting tone of the forehead which is used without our realizing it, and it is contracting to help lift up the eyebrows and...
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Droopy eyelids after Botox
Naphcon-A available OTC will helps some by strenghtening Mueller's muscle that raises the lid, but the best is Iodopine on prescription.
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Botox Doesn't Have To Cause Droopy Eyelids
Botox works by relaxing muscles. The overall effect is therefore determined by which muscles are injected, what those muscles do, and how much the muscle is weakened. If you inject most the muscle that lifts the forehead in order to correct the horizontal forehead wrinkles, you are weakening the primary muscle that keeps the forehead up. The muscles that pull the brow down now have a competitive advantage and will pull the brow down without any opposition, giving a predictable...
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Botox and droopy eyelids
It sounds like the doctor may have injected too much Botox into the forehead and weakened the frontalis muscle, causing eyebrow/eyelid drooping. This is relatively common and will resolve with time. I would not do any other treatment or surgery until the Botox effect is fully worn off. When I treat the forehead with Botox, I am conservative to try to avoid getting any brow depression. It is easy to add more Botox, but once it's injected, you can't take it out. ...
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Lone Tree Dermatologic Surgeon
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Can Botox Make Your Eye Lids Droopy if Your Doctors Says It Was Going to Happen Anyways?
No, if Botox weakened the forehead muscles leading to upper eyelid drooping, then this should disappear after the Botox wears off in 3-4 months. Wait until it's all gone before you do anything else.
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Get away from this doctor.
So sorry that you are not super pleased with your BOTOX treatment. The situation sounds goofy. I personally disagree with your doctors assessment. We have a say that if you tell someone about something before the event it is an explanation but if you tell them the same thing after the event it is an excuse.
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