When I was injected with botox for crows feet I felt as if the botox leaked onto my face and was cold. I now think the botox was injected into a nerve since that side of my face feels numb in places. Will this were off as the botox wears off?
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August 3, 2012
Answer: Botox nerve muscle communication not sensation
Ron Shelton, MDDermatologic Surgeon, Board Certified in Dermatology
When botox was tested for FDA approval, some patients who were given placebo treatment to compare with the real botox, also had vague flu-like symptoms. Rarely it does occur that patients having botox obtain flu-like symptoms but they disappear usually within one day. It does not appear to...
If a doctor were to use Botox off-label and inject the lower lip to relax the orbicularis oris muscle there might be less inward pull of the lower lip so there is less apposition against the teeth and making it more difficult to bite the lower lip. However, this would create a stroke-like...
Botox is a medical grade toxin that's injected at very diluted states delivering minute amounts of the toxin. It's been proven very safe at the doses used for aesthetic treatments.