Will Dysport Wear off Quickly if I Am Practicing Bikram Yoga Regularly (3-6 Times a Week)

Dysport should not wear off any sooner.  We discourage patients from exercising immediately after treatment because we don't want the Dysport to spread to other muscles that are not intended for treatment. 

Congrats for being so dedicated to Bikram Yoga.  Dysport should not wear off any sooner, but I do recommend that my patients refrain from exercising until the next day, to allow the medication to be absorbed into the muscle.

Hope this helps, namaste.

With Dyport and Botox, the effect is unrelated to yoga or any other form of exercise. It won't make it last longer to aviod it or go away sooner if you do it.

Hello,

Participation in yoga or any other physical activity will not affect the amount of time the Dysport lasts. Thank you, and I hope this helps answer your question.

Dr. Nassif

While theoretically there is no link between duration of effect of botulinum toxins and exercise, I have made the observation that people who exercise a great deal (such as marathon runners, ironman triathletes, etc), tend to not have as long an effect from neurotoxins as most patients.

There really is nothing that you can do to make Dysport or Botox metabolize faster.  Everyone metabolizes Dysport and Botox at different speeds.  The luck ones have a slow metabolism so it lasts longer.  

 

Good Luck.

I am not aware of any study that has suggested that Bikram Yoga will cause any acceleration in the metabolism of Dysport.

 

 

No, Dysport should not wear off any sooner if you are exercising or practicing yoga frequently.  We always tell patient to refrain from exercising the day of treatment and to avoid touching the areas injected so that the Dysport does not travel to other muscle areas.  However, exercise and your usual routine can be resumed immediately the day after treatment. I hope this information helps!

Botox and Dysport are two different shapes of the molecule Botulinum Toxin A. This toxin (the purified protein with no clostridium bacteria, so you can't get botulism from it) permanently cleaves a receptor in the neuromuscular junction thus preventing signalling between a nerve and its muscle. So now you can't frown. That cleaved receptor is permanently cleaved, so you can't "wash out" this toxin from your bloodstream by doing a lot of exercise in a hot room.

The way these neuromodulators "wear off" is only by your body physically creating whole new receptors and putting them into the neuromuscular junction where you will cleave them again with your next treatment of Botox or Dysport. It's most fun to try to cleave them just as they arrive--so your treatment never wears off and those pesky wrinkles can't re-form. Try it!

Regular strenuous exercise, including Bikram yoga, should not cause the effects of Dysport to wear off any faster than usual.  The reason has to do with the mechanism of action of the product, which irreversibly binds to neuromuscular junctions and "wears off" only when the body produces new ones, typically in 3-4 months.  Inversion or strenuous exercise immediately after injection is discouraged due to the risk of local spread outside of the intended therapeutic site; however, this is only for the first couple hours and then you may do any activity you desire.