Botox: Stories

I haven't bounced back yet, but trying to remain hopeful. I'm so sorry (and discouraged) to hear that you are 4 month out and still dealing with this. Yuck! I really hope our experience will help to prevent others from using Botox and avoid such an ordeal. I wish I had researched things more before, as well as accepted and appreciated my self as I was/am, before having this stuff injected into my face. It has been a hard lesson for me, but I get it now. And I have no illusions that the doctors and drug companies will ever admit to less than ideal results. Onward and upward. Good luck!!

This has just happened to me too. I went to my provider, a prominent plastic surgeon in the area for treatment of the glabella region only. He also treated the "Charlie Gibson" horizontal line over my nose which is not that prominent buy there. I have had this done by him many times before with excellent results. Usually I wait about 6 months between treatments but wanted to look good for my nieces wedding so was retreated at 3-1/2. When I was injected this time I noticed the shots were extremely painful and he seemed to put more botox in the line over my nose. That night of the treatment I could not get to sleep at all and my eyes were actually hurting -- felt very dry and grainy. When I looked in the mirror the next morning I noticed a decided pouch under each eye that I definitely did not have before. My eyes themselves looked irritated red and beady. Over the next three days my eyes became progressively worse -- the under eye pouchesbecame huge, baggy and very wrinkly and the fat pad above the inside corner of each eye bulged out. My eyelids were also dropped -- my eyes are normally quite wide and large now and they looked slightly closed and definitely smaller. They were also dry and uncomfortable -- I was using drops constantly. Five days after my treatment my eyes were puffy than ever, 1/3 closed and now very wrinkly under the eye. I phoneed my doctors office only to find he was out for a couple of weeks but his associate would see me that day. The associate (who does only body work -- no face work) completely blew me off. He admitted my eyes looked very puffy but said it could not possibly be from the botox. I told him I believed the botox had seeped into the muscle surrounding my eye causing the puffiness and the fat pads to bulge. He said that could not happen because I had not had my crows feet treated and suggested perhaps I had eaten soy sauce or had an allergic reaction to something. He recommended I see a doctor and ask for "water pills". When I told him I take lasix every day he replied, well I guess that will not help then, sorry hope it goes away but it is not from the botox. I am absolutely furious not only for my very bad result I got but because I was dismissed with little more than an afterthought. I examine my face everyday -- I know I did not have bulging puffy wrinkly eyes before the botox injections and that the botox definitely caused them. I am sick of these doctors who are so willing to take your money but completely unwilling to take any responsibility when things go terribly wrong. I plan to go back to see the doctor who injected me when he returns from his trip but he too will probably take no blame for the hideous way I look and blow me off as well. It is going to take months for me to return to normal -- if ever and I am just sick about it.

I was un aware of any possible drooping of eye lids prior to treatment and 5 day post treatment I entered a shower fine, after exiting I glanced in the mirror to a horror of my left eye looking half the size of my right.The upper lid drooped almost to the bottom of the pupil. I was due to fly out to Florida to see my family for the first time in 13 years. I was horrified at my appearrance and thought it might be permanent. I contacted my Doctors office and was casually told no worries go to Fl. and this could possibly correct itself 3 weeks to six months later. You would not believe the stares from other passengers. I wanted to magically conjure up a eye patch to aleviate the stares. I am still in Fl. due to return tommorrow and address this further. Thanks to the internet and quick research by my sister I atleast gained the knowledge that this is probably not permanent and that cancelling a very important trip would not help the symptoms or reverse them.

I would recommend acupuncture and exercise (anything to increase circulation - it made me feel better). I noticed a big difference at week four (though it's been five weeks and I'm not near normal yet, but I'm much better and people have stopped asking me if I'm ok).

i was reading about some one that had siby the similar problem. she did a lot of heat therapy in the form of steam facial and sauna, for about 2 weeks 2 times a day, sound pretty time consuming but apparently by the end of the second week she improved alot. apparently heat brake protein in the muscle. hope it is helpful. i had a terrible head ache myself and i am looking for info too.