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Eyelid Drooping, Ptosis from Botox. What Can I Do to Fix the Problem?
I had botox injected into my forhead about 2 weeks ago and now it seems that my right eyelid is not opening up as wide as my left. At first I was mortified and thought I had a seizure and developed a lazy eye but thank fully to internet research I found out that this could be ptosis and is a comman side effect of botox. The Dr only injected the top 1/3 of my forehead (torwards hairline) and I wanted to know if I go back to have between or above my brows injected, would it fix this issue?
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aizza17
in LOS ANGELES
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More Botox is NOT the answer here!
Aizza, I am sorry that you are having this problem, caused by inadvertent migration of Botox molecules to the eyelid elevators, or loss of tone of the brow and eyelid muscles. It will indeed wear off over time, but in the meantime, your injecting physician can prescribe one of several eyedrops that strengthen other eyelid elevator muscles and partially (hopefully near-completely) improve the eyelid droop.
Your description of the injection site near the hairline is an unusual cause for...
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Botox and drooping or droopy eyelids
Aizza
Sorry to hear about your problem. Ptosis or drooping of the eyes is one of the most common side effects of Botox. It happens when the chemical toxin affects the muscles which elevate your brow and act against muscles which pull the brow down (depressors). It sounds like your physican attempted to prevent ptosis by staing on the upper brow but may have inadvertently injected the elevator muscles. You options would be to wait until the Botox wears off (on average 3 months) or you...
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How to Fix Droopy Eyelid After Botox?
Hi aizza. In looking at your picture, we do see that the right eyelid appears to cover more of the iris then the left. With that said, we often see patients that have a slightly different lid elevation before they have any Botox injected. We capture this in the "before" pictures. Were any taken of you that you could reference back to?
While it's certainly possible that the injections you received cause eyelid ptosis, it is more difficult to envision...
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Aizza,
Droopy eyelid is a complaint that sometimes comes up after Botox injecitons. Two possible explanations are:
1) The Botox is affecting the muscle that lifts the eyebrow (the frontalis), causing the eyebrow (and the eyelid with it) to droop.
2) The Botox is affecting the muscle that lifts the eyelid (the levator palpebrae superioris).
In either case, the effect should resolve before the Botox wears off in 3-4 months.
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