Botox: Stories

My doctor prescribed a low-dose steroid pack for me but I'm afraid to introduce anything new into my system. My main symptoms are vertigo, weakness and nausea. Do you think they helped?

I also want to put this two cents in...when i got botox at 38, i seriously couldnt believe how great i looked. I really did look more like 29. It was very natural looking. And it was great getting that attention again. It messes up your judgement, a bit. I got sucked into the idea that my value is tied to my looks. My kids didnt care about my wrinkles and neither did my husband. He never wanted me to do it anyway. My derm is skilled but didnt warn me that SOME people do in fact have reactions. No pharmacy grade medicine out there is 100% safe for all populations. Esp something like botox. It is a conflict of interest for someone about to earn $500 to$1000 for a few needle pricks to stop and say by the way, you MIGHT have a reaction, SOME people respond poorly to this product, SOME people do NOT look better after using it, but MOST people are ok. Then you could sign a waiver saying, yes i have verbally been warned. And for doctors to collectively wave away patients complaints who do have reactions as 'all in their heads' is a scam many docs use to make you GO AWAY. My mom had a xray in 1990 where they shot dye into her to get a better look at her spine after a minor car accident and she had a terrible reaction, she suffers from fybromyalgia, a burning sensation all over her body, vertigo, etc etc. Was declared leaglly disabled in 1993. But all the docs involved siad 'its just in your head'. NOW on the forms before tests like this it specifically asks 'have you or a family member ever had an allergic reaction to dyes used in these tests' i know because i had an MRI recently where they might have needed to use dye. In 5 to 10 yrs i bet botox will be the same, we will see more docs have to be more open about possible side effects. Our immune systems are compromised by chemicals, stress and other factors. You never know if you will react badly, so stop and think, do i really want to do this? My sister has used botox and fillers on and off for 12 yrs with no problems at all, it is just a crap shoot.

Also, i have flown since the vertigo attack and it didnt cause a recurrence of the vertigo, which relieved me greatly!!

So now it is a few months later and while i am mostly better, i still have moments where when i am sleeping at night and i turn over, everything starts spinning. It only last briefly but still, it causes anxiety, i star worrying that i will have a full blown attack of vertigo. Whats weird is that my derm let me owe her the money, and i emailed her after the first attack of vertigo last fall, remember, i have had a good history with her for years, and my previous botox experience with her was positive. She never asked me for the $700 i owed. I emailed her three more times trying to pay her but she never responded. I hope to be back to normal someday. I wish i had never done it. My ear nose throat specialist told me i can nevet do any injectables ever again because my body could have an auto immune response to it, and the outcome could be worse. I will never do it again. My doc also told me about a woman who had a similar response, swore off botox, then a few years later decided, well, its been so long, it will be ok, got it again, with disastorous results. Constant vertigo, nausea, anxiety, and now she takes meds to just deal with getting through the day. You just never know. It so not worth what i went through. I almost didnt make it to a job interview that i had been waiting for forever, but i managed, and got the job. Good luck!

Im confused about botox. I have this friend who had botox like five times and told me I will look wounderful and that there was nothing to worry about. So I got it two weeks ago, four days later I though the world was endind, I got up that morning and couldnt stay stand up, everything was moving around me I felt so sick and got nauseated. I called the doctor and he told me that botox has nothing to do with what I was feeling. But I got into the internet and began to investigate, I now I know that all this awful things Im going through is because of botox. Now Im taking medication, but two weeks have past and the vertigo stills here, headache, anxiety. Before my eyes were perfect, now my mom says that they look lost, I always liked to drive at night to go back to my home town on weekends, now Im not able to do it, I just can´t see as I used to. The doctor said I have to be patient but I cant. I need to be the same person I was before botox, please if someone knows what to do to get rid of botox, write ...

well i really dont know what to think about botox,, i just wanted to have a smooth looking face and i did,, BUT,, now i have awful side affects,, im so dizzy, cant work cus i run out of breath, anxiety, hypertension, facial pain, cant drive cus the light makes my eyes hurt and i get nauseated,, im so scared,, when will this stop and what can i do,,plz give me advise some one

You know what else? I got the Botox at the end of October and it is already fading. I wonder if all the steroids the doctor had me on helped move it out of my system faster.

I'm doing so much better but it took 4 and a half weeks. I am about 99%. Yay! I will never get botox again. Now I have a new problem. I have to fly to Los Angeles in January And I'm worried that flying will set off the vertigo. Has anyone had this issue after bottom induced vertigo? Flying a month or two after an attack and getting another attack?

They will subside. I too had a very weird dizzy episode where I felt like the room was spinning and I had to lay down. That was a week after the last round of botox (definitely the LAST!)
It will get better. The worst symptoms for me were in the first 3 weeks. Hope you feel better soon!

Britt,
So you think these issues will subside?. I hope!

Thanks for commenting. I have a shot at the next step in the process of the job, a chance to prove myself, so I have been working non stop on the presentation. It's looking good! I'm just so frustrated by these continuing symptom! At least the vertigo has calmed down to a manageable level.