“Things I Wish I Knew...things I Forgot”

I, too had the same reaction as you, on my 5 round of Botox. Flu symptoms, anxiety, dry mouth, sweaty palms and feet going on 5 months now. I completely agree with your statement, it is better to feel good than to look good! As much as I LOVED getting botox, it is not worth the months of feeling crappy, the medications trying to treat these symptoms, or the mounds of medical bills trying to figure out what was wrong with me. This is just my story and I am sticking to it!

Yikes!! I sure hope this doesn't last 5 months!!! 2 panic attacks/ER visits and not even 2 wks since Botox!! I will be popping Xanax way too long!!! Stomach problems are the worst! Right eye slightly blurred. Gee, they said I looked 29 in the ER though, not bad for a 42 yr old...NOT WORTH IT!!!!

Oh yeah, Not only do I have nasal and sinus congestion too, but a sinus infection. Antibiotic cost me another $75. Thank God Xanax is cheap, too bad it's addictive. At what price beauty? I'm trying heat/cold therapy and massage to try and rid it out of my body faster. Will also try a detox regimen.

I have always had great results with Botox. Got talked into doing a bit more this last time...mistake! The day after the injections, I not only got a horrible headache,but I thought I had the flu. It has now been about three weeks and I still feel like I have the flu. My nose is sooo stuffy in the morning and my left eye looks really small in the morning.(Gets only slightly better after blowing my nose a hundred times!!!) My eyelids also look really wrinkled and dry and my eyes are very weepy throughout the day. I am completely freaked-out that this will not get better with time!!! I have also experienced the anxiety and depression as well! I have been massaging my forehead each night hoping to "wake" these muscles in my forehead...don't think it is helping. I really think less is more as far as Botox is concerned!

I felt tons better after 1 round of antibiotics for my sinus infection, can breathe easier anyway. Anxiety is a bit better too, but still have moments, as well as tummy trouble. I feel so stupid that my sculpted eyebrows look uneven now too. Guess I'll be taking Xanax a while longer. UGH!!

BTW, massage and heat DID seem to help a bit. So did taking hot baths with lavender for relaxation. Thanks for the feedback.

Sucks! I hear you. I did botox 6 times, and although I experienced some aesthetic issues, the first 3 times I never had bad "side effects" until my 4th time, wicked sinus infection, anxiety, and major insomnia, lasting about a month. Pretty much a psychological nightmare. Don't know why it did not happen first 3 times. Totally frustrating. No one has answers either. Feel ripped off that I can't be in on the fountain of youth!

I've tried botox twice and both times have gotten severe flus 12-20 days later. While a Dr would probably say its unrelated my sense is the botox was a factor. I love the results but 1 week of downtime is not worth it. I'm super healthy so I have a good sense for what's going on in my body. Botox is not good for me. Wish I had this info sooner.

Have you seen your doctor yet? You may need to get a prescription for anxiety medication or decongestant. Sounds like you got too much.

Did Botox first time and it is a nightmare. 5 hours after getting injected my sinuses just closed and could not breath. The worst was my throat!!! Had the feeling for 10 days that is was closing and tight. Felt this before when I had an allergic reaction to a antobotic- but took Benedryl and it got better a few hours later. 14 days into it have the flu and a sinus infection. I have been sneezing about 50 times a day. I only had 30 injecting between brows not even 1 bottle of this toxic shit!!!! Dr. who allow people to get injected with this poison should be injected themselves. I hope this goes away soon. Also had the worst stomache attack of my life on day 5. Wow, my body just didn't react well to this. Only slept 1 night in 2 weeks and feel like crap. Can anyone give me any positive feedback to when i will feel better. The dr. Office in Long Island said they never heard anybody who has experienced this before. I think that also has not truth to it.

I tried everything to sleep, tho only thing that works is pot! Try to get a prescription. It took me 4 weeks! Good luck...I did 18 units and it was a nightmare

I to have had a negative reaction to botox. Day 6 is when I started noticing my left eye drooping. Barely being able to keep it open, it's exhausting! I work in a day spa and I'm mortified when people come in. I have really bad anxiety since and I feel nausous all the time. My body feels achy and stiff. I'm really scared. To top it off the Doctor isn't being very helpful in the matter. He said that he hasn't seen anything like this in his office in the ten years he's been doing it. I just happen to be the one that it happened to. There are eye drops available for $117 dollars that could raise my lid 1-3cm is it worth it? I don't know if I can handle 3 month of this... It's only been a week!

I doubt that the eye drops are worth it. Lots of rest helped me the most. I hope that more people read these testimonials before trying botox.

i did eye drops, cant say if it worked, the eye will remain dropped for only a month...sucks! Good luck...oh pot helps the anxiety, only pot, and I tried everything, xanax etc

This is my 4th round of Botox and I'm not feeling well. I feel extremely tired and very anxious. Overall I just don't feel good. I hope this wears off soon because I've got enough going on to cause me to be depressed. My boyfriend is getting deployed to afganistan and I got the injections to look my best before he leaves. Unfortunately I feel so bad that I'm gonna have to fake it. I don't want to feel so sad and anxious right before he leaves. Is this botox related or just my situation? Who knows but I don't feel good at all :(

It took me 6 years of getting Botox to realize that every time within 12 hours, I experienced sudden and severe insomnia, extreme anxiety, panic attacks, and a rapid slide into depression. I have always been very even keel, not terribly moody, and sleep like a champ, so the difference is drastic and obvious, and certainly not psychological. Suspecting the connection, I began to keep "mood charts" over the last 2 years, documenting what happened to me after having Botox. The link is absolute and very clear -- it's the Botox that is causing the problems. If you search message boards, MANY other people have experienced exactly the same thing. Doctors and Clinicians deny such "side effects" are common, even real, and yet they are being widely reported all over the internet. The problem is, because we do not expect such a response to Botox, we do not directly connect the reaction. It has quite devastated my life -- leading to a misdiagnosis from a Psychiatrist, and eventually taking 5 dangerous mind-altering medications to "treat" the misdiagnosis. Of course, my "mental illness" strangely went away every time the Botox wore off, but try explaining that to a Psychiatrist! Once I realized what was really going on, I weaned myself successfully off all medications working with a Naturopathic Doctor, and a Nutritional Psychiatrist (yes, they exist!) -- and of course I stopped having Botox. I think it will be years before the true effects of Botox become apparent. I wonder if there is any link between the drastic increase in RXs for sleeping pills, anti-anxiety meds and antidepressants in the last 10 years -- and the advent of Botox during the same period. It's hard to know -- because these side effects are not disclosed by the manufacturer of Botox -- so Doctors don't know to expect or look for them. They automatically dismiss them as probably psychological, when clearly they are not. I think the key problem is people probably don't realize Botox is doing this to them, because a) they don't expect it, and b) they want to focus on the positive outcome of Botox. Until more people speak up -- and file "adverse event" reports with the FDA as I did -- nothing will change. You can file an "adverse event" report here: https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/medwatch/medwatch-online.htm

Thank you for the information. I'm so glad you are feeling better now :)

I am noticing all of the comments that say the doctor reports not knowing or seeing this result before. I am considering a law suit as this comment caused me try and seek out an answer for why my eyes were not working. I am a therpapist in private practice so i was freaking out and saw so many specialists, ct scans MRI and believe it or not more botox by a neuro-opothomaolgists who thought i had a blepho spasm. Had i been told by the dermatologist that this was a side effect and to wait it out it would be over. Now i have to wait out the medical botox given in my eyelid and all around my eye, 8units. I am so angry and feel so violated.I wish I had found this website in the beginning.

My girlfriend has no problems putting 40 units in her head, I don't why so many don't and others do, but the FDA is making so much money, they don't care. Study in Italy finds it crosses over brain stem, I wonder if u did not put it directly in your frontal lobe, if there would be same problems? Hang in there!