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Puffy and Drooping Eyelids After Botox
I have severe puffy and drooping eyelids after Botox. What can be done? Botox eye droop. I also have severe puffiness in eyelids. I was injected in the forehead and between brows. I still have the one wrinkle I wanted gone between brows...ARGH.
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Puffy Eyelids After Botox
Hello. It's difficult to see from the photo how much eyelids because we don't have the "before" picture. The good news is that because Botox is only temporary, the effects usually only last about 6-8 weeks.
The condition is called ptosis and it occurs when the Botox is injected incorrectly in the forehead. The product migrates to muscles that are not targeted. The Botox relaxes these muscles and causes the eyelids to appear heavy or puffy....
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Botox in brows
Botox injected into the brows can cause sagging and a heavy lid look in some individuals especially those with heavy brows. See your doctor.
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Botox in the forehead can cause eyebrows to sag
The forehead muscles are responsible for raising the eyebrows, so if you inject Botox there, you run the risk of not being able to raise your eyebrows. (I always caution my patients of this side effect, and undercorrect the forehead). Unknowingly, you must have been using your forehead muscles (frontalis) to raise your brows and keep the eyelid skin up. Once the eyelids droop, it can look like puffiness because the excess eyelid skin is bunching up.
Now that your brows are drooping, you...
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This is due to the brows dropping after Botox
Your eyebrows have descended a bit after the treatment. This is a result of the BTX taking out the muscles that elevate the forehead. As a result, the skin of the upper eyes tends to become redundant and puffy looking. If you manually raise your brow, you will see an improvement to the pre-injection state.
One way to correct this is to have your doctor inject the muscles that are pulling the forehead down unopposed. While he is at it, give another bit to the wrinkled area.
The other option...
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