More Eye Drops for Droopy Eyelid After Botox?

If an alpha agonist eye drop such as brimonidine fails to minimize ptosis (droopy eyelids) after few days, you should use Visine (or generic tetrahydrozoline) eye drops a couple times a day and you should see some improvement as it works to strengthen Mueller's muscles on eyelids. Mueller's muscles are contracted when you are awake to keep your eyelids lifted. Even without intervention, most ptosis from Botox should subside after 4 weeks.

Dear Helen Brimonidine is an alpha agonist and its mechanism of action is analogous to Iopidine, the drop that is customarly used to raise the eyelid after BOTOX causes ptosis. If the brimonidine you are using is not raising the eyelid, it is likely that Iopidine won't either. I recommend that you consult your general ophthalmologist and let him or her supervise you in a one week trial with Iopidine in addition or as an alternative to brimonidine. However, as you don't seem to be... more