Kim Atlanta

Botox - When You Get Bad Side Effects You REALLY Get Bad Side Effects! - Atlanta, Ga

are you ok now?

I was going to see if I could find an active thread before I posted my 15 month review. I am still sick.

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lmcneil -

That just infuriates me! Print out the Botox Cosmetic Warnings and Medication Guides and some of these threads and mail them to the idiot. Can't any of these doctors who say NOTHING is EVER related to Botox get on the web and do some research like all of us have? I've had four physicians in other specialties who do not inject Botox tell me it's a systemic reaction to the Botox. Only my plastic surgeon says my symptoms can't be caused by Botox because he has "never heard of them". Isn't that a frigging well informed scientific opinion? NOT!

Pins and needles are a Botox side effect. But in Allergan's medication guide and warnings it is listed as PARETHESIA. I wish I had looked up all the medical terms I didn't know before I got the Botox. This is from Wikipedia:

Paresthesia (/ˌpærɨsˈθiːziə/ or /ˌpærɨsˈθiːʒə/), spelled "paraesthesia" in British English, is a sensation of tingling, pricking, or numbness of a person's skin with no apparent long-term physical effect. It is more generally known as the feeling of "pins and needles" or of a limb "falling asleep". The manifestation of paresthesia may be transient or chronic.

I think ours will be transient once the crap is out of our system. I hope! Another thing my plastic surgeon had "never heard of". It started the day after the injections and comes and goes depending on where the Botox is "moving".