Botox and Restylane Results Affected by Alcohol?

Neither Botox nor
Restylane results should be affected by alcohol consumption. We do recommend
that patients not drink prior to injections, as it may increase the chances of
bruising, but it should have no effect on actual results. You may have
been a bit undertreated and require more of both agents to achieve prolonged
results. I suggest you return to your
provider to discuss your results.
Reviewing your pre-filler photos may also be helpful because we often
forget what we looked like before treatment!

I would not recommend that you drink right after an injectable procedure as it will increase your chance of bruising and swelling.  Having said that, I don't think it would effect the duration or efficacy of your result.

This is unusual and I haven't heard this happen before and there is no scientific evidence supporting this. The fact that it made your results "disappear" is strange. I suggest you return to your injector to talk about this.

Alcohol doesn't affect the benefits of Botox and Restylane. It may contribute to bruising, but not make your results disappear. It's very strange that you experienced this. Please see your injector for an assessment.

                  It's
unfortunate that you're unhappy with the results of your recent botox and
Restylane injections. Although your injections occurred following significant
alcohol consumption, your poor result probably isn't related to this event.  Alcohol has no effect on either botox
or juvéderm. For this reason other explanations are probably more likely.

It's important
that you contact your injector as soon as possible. This provider will
hopefully determine why your injections didn't work and correct your aesthetic
concerns.

Although alcohol may cause fluid retention and may increasing bleeding tendencies (potential for addiional bruising), there are no studies suggesting any interaction or diminished Botullinum Toxin (Dysport and Botox) and Restylane effects.

I am not aware of any reports that alcohol consumption interferes with the processing of Botox or fillers. There is no mechanism or pathway that I can think of that would make me tell a patient to avoid consuming alcohol after these cosemtic procedures.

Binge drinking is not healthy for you.  It is much more likely that the binge drinking affected your memory of your treatment effects than it is that the drinking actually affected the treatment itself.  Of course the answer is to always have a follow up visit after treatment and then you can actually compare the effect of the treatment rather than guessing regarding its effectiveness.  

There are no studies and no medical reason why Alcohol should effect the results from Botox or Juvederm.  There is more likely a different factor going on such as a new injector, etc.  Good luck.

In reality, alcohol should not effect your Botox and/or Restylane results.  I have no heard of this before and have not, to my knowledge, had any patients who have reported such an occurrence.  Looking at the literature, there does not appear to be any connection either.