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The Dreaded DROOP. Awful 1st Time Experience.

Unfortunately I'm notified via email of each and every message that is posted. I'm sorry, but REALLY. This individual is essentially threatening suicide (even with her young child in her care) and we are all trying to give her support by telling her the same thing over and over and over: it's temporary. It happens. Your face WILL revert back to its former self. And the suicide talk continues. This woman needs to pull herself together for the sake of her CHILD. If she is THAT unstable then nobody but a therapist and perhaps some medication will soothe her pain.

Please seek professional help and stop obbsessively posting on here.

Wow, you sound EXACTLY like I did a few months back. Long story short, the same neanderthal brow-drop happened to me. I was horrified, depressed, angry, embarrassed, you name it. I thought "What the EFF have I done?"

All I can say is that your beautiful face WILL go back to normal. I promise. It's a gradual process and some days are worse than others, but the one certainty is that Botox is temporary. Never ever permanent.

I'm a few days shy of being 4 months post-injection, and I went from being consumed by it day and night to not even thinking about it. The droop will subside sooner than the botox resolves from the muscles.

Be patient, have hope and just know that it's TEMPORARY. :-)

Thanks Frozen, I appreciate your advice and sweet words. :) I'm just over 3 wks past and am seeing an improvement. I went out for a big family dinner lastnight for my hubby's birthday and it was the first time since I had the injections that I didn't feel the need to hide behind my reading glasses! I'm confident that by July I will be back to normal!
You're absolutely right; this experience has taught me a) if it aint really broke, don't fix it
and b) be appreciative and accepting of what you have. As stated in my initial posting, I'd never tried Botox prior to this and I didn't have any one aesthetic goal in mind, I simply wanted to try it. I admit, I was a tad dramatic and panicking over the first 2 weeks but I really didn't know what to think! I was devestated that I had done permanent damage to myself! I'm at a point now where I can chuckle at myself a little.

What I AM still dealing with (and I had left this detail out of my thread because I didn't realize how it was factoring into the puffy and odd appearance of my under-eye area) is the tiny bit of Juvederm that the same injector had put underneath my eyes to fill out some very mild hollowness.

During the consultation for the botox he asked me if I had any concerns with the rest of my appearnce and I'd mentioned my eyes but that I wasn't entirely sure that I wanted to put any filler there due to the mostly negative reviews on Realself. He said "well I'll just put a little, if you don't like it we can simply dissolve it." Turns out that he did a VERY superficial injection resulting in a medium-sized kidney bean-shaped puff-pad under each eye! Unbelievable! Needless to say, I will not be seeing this injector again. I have an appointment with our medical director tomorrow to have the filler diddolved. Fingers crossed that it goes well. I'll try to post some pics of the undereye filler hwever I'm doubtful that I can capture the severity of it in photo.

Megan, thank you so much for your response. Those links were great and have actually given me some relief.
"Botoxissue" I'm so sorry to hear about your chin injection. I imagine you probably feel self-concious as well; not the greatest feeling, especially when you have no choice but to continue on with work and life! *sigh* The light at the end of the tunnel though, is that it IS temporary! I know that I will personally put this experience in my lesson jar. :-) Good luck