“Bad Botox - Injected into Forehead for Lines, Caused Puffy Eyes”

Have you seen any improvement? I'm really worried that even when all the botox is out of me, my eye lids will never be the same.

Hi Jessegirl - I am at Week 13 and still have the puffy eyes. Read the posts under Chloerose's review "Jabba the Hutt puffy eyes after botox in glabella region". Lots of us with puffy eyes have written there and I copied a very illuminating article in one of my posts. Hang in there. My puffiness was EXTREME for the first five weeks or so and then has slowly, slowly, slowly improved. I still have it but it is much better. I still despair that it will never come right but all I can do is wait. Keep writing. It will make you feel better to know you are not alone. Cheers

J - Botox gone bad is notoriously hard to photograph! Well done for even trying. I think doctors underestimate how much botox affects SKIN as well as muscle. They should know this considering muscles and skin are connected in the face, and the botox is interrupting this connection. I have two chicken pox scars (right next to each other) on the left side of my face under my cheekbone. I have had them since I was a little kid. Prior to botox they were tucked up under my cheek bone and hardly noticeable at all. They have never shown up in a photo of me that is taken from the front. After the cheek drop from botox, they had moved from underneath my cheek bone to much lower and fallen forward in my face. That is how much my skin has moved!! Botox makes the skin tight and shiny for the first few months. As the botox wears off, the skin becomes loose and flaccid - this is very evident in the ripples on the forehead, for example. I think the loose skin is because the skin has been unsupported by muscle for so long. Instead of waiting for the muscle to build up strength again (which should tighten the skin back up) most people get botox again at the loose skin stage because it is so ghastly. But this can't work forever - hence the number of people who have good result, good result, good result then DISASTER. There are definite aesthetic limits to botox. Meltyface has 'hourglass deformity' from botox (ie caving in of the temple area). Both eyeschicago and I got versions of the "creepy hollows" from botox like in your pictures as well as cheek ptosis and festoon formation under the eyes. Chloerose also got a bad result under her eyes and, like you, she only had botox in her forehead and none under her eyes. How is your doctor so sure that where he put the botox can't affect you around the eyes? It has happened to other people!!! I find it incredible that doctors will promote botox as having the ability to change facial shape when it suits them (like using it to deliberately diminish a pronounced masseter muscle) but when they make a mistake and change facial shape through cheek ptosis or hourglass deformity then they deny this is possible. It is just nonsense. I am exercising my face and trying to get the original shape back and the skin back in the right position. Fingers crossed it actually works... K

Thanks, Amber 1977, for your post. I desperately need people to post when they honestly see some improvement because from day to day I see changes but no real progress. I am so glad you have your face back! All the best to you. Kate

That's excellent news Amber!

Call me a cynic, but some actual studies on botox might undermine the ability of the doctors to keep pretending it is natural ageing. Thank you for using the term 'when' instead of 'if' regarding this horror resolving for me. I am starting to have my doubts. Keep us updated on your progress too. It is a long and horrible journey. K