“Swelling for 6 months now”

I had a couple treatments that worked ok on the forehead - nothing but some bruising. My eyes were like deer in headlights unnatural from the injections around the crows feet, but I liked the smooth forehead.

Then the third treatment.. right before New Years.

Despite using the topical anesthetic they gave me, I noticed it was more painful going in the skin - intense pressure. Im not sure why or if it was the amount of diluent used. I even asked about pain meds because my head was throbbing already. When I got home I noticed a little more swelling than normal but when I woke up the next day, I looked like a neanderthal.

My protruding forehead - more on one side than the other was accompanied by the eyeld drooping over my left eye. I always had a thin face and my cheeks were puffed out so much you couldnt see any bones. For the next few days I couldnt go out in public.

The doctor told me someone else had a reaction that day , but his office staff later told me they never had any reactions that day and he later changed his story and told me he's never had a reaction with Botox like this and none from the same batch. It was fishy but I guess he was trying to cover himself because it certainly wasnt on the waiver I had to sign.

But that was the beginning.

When the swelling began to go down, I noticed deep dark bruises under my eyes and "trenches" i had never had there because of the puffed up cheeks. And to top it off, the Botox had tracked to one side of my face so I had one joker eyebrow that raised and the other lid drooped down over my eye. I wore glasses for a month to hide this.

3 months later there was still protrusion in the forehead and swelling under the eyes and in the cheeks, though the dark circles got light enough to cover the bags with makeup. 6 months later... Still trenches under the eyes I never had because the residual swelling in my cheeks have created this.

What little Botox effect is gone so I have all my old wrinkles plus the new ones and worse crows feet. I cant say it was the Botox for sure, or a reaction to something else in the diluent or the amount of it, or even where it got injected. I'll never know - he wiped his hands clean of it and couldve cared less. I just need to move on and I can tell you this hell has not been worth it.

My face was so much younger looking before.