Can Injecting Botox Below the Eyes Cause Blindness?

This has never actually been reported.  If it has ever occured, BOTOX would have never have caused the visual loss.  One would actually have to have damaged the eye directly with the needle.  Cosmetic BOTOX in not injected in the orbit (i.e. behind the eyelids) so some type of terrible accident would have to occur for this to happen.  The agent itself it highly diluted before injection.  So if one injected the product into a blood vessel that directly communicated with the retinal circulation, noting would happen.  This is one of the reasons that cosmetic Botox is considered to be so safe.  I would say that it is not even a theoretical possibility.  There are issues we are concerned about with BOTOX but this is not one of them.  This is a product that has been used in millions and millions of people, so the few cases of glaucoma or disturbances in retinal circulation that have been reported are likely coincidental rather that caused by the actual treatment.

Still it you are so very concerned about unlikely possibilities, my advice is: why stress?  Please do not have BOTOX treatment.

Blindness is not a known risk of Botox.   You are most likely thinking of filler risks. Please be sure you are seeing an experienced provider. Best of luck!

I am not aware of how botox would even be a risk to cause blindness. This should not be a reason to avoid having botox.

Theoretically, Botox cannot cause blindness. You have a better chance of getting into a major car accident on your way to getting Botox, so do not worry about it.

The chances of becoming blind from having Botox inject around your eyes is extremely unlikely unless you were poked in the eyeball with the needle.  Experts who know what they are doing would not be that careless.

In knowledgeable hands, Botox has proven to be an extremely safe treatment. The use of Botox for cosmetic reasons was discovered by an ophthaomologist. At that time Botox was being used in the eye area to help balance the eye muscles to correct  strabismus. So the safe use of Botox in the eye region has a very long history.

To my knowledge, Botox has never caused blindness.  Although anything is possible in medicine and there's always a first, the general side effects of Botox are, headache, bruising, swelling, allergic reaction (rare), droopy eyelid, eyebrow, facial asymmetry.  There have been a few cases of respiratory distress, but this was not in cases involving cosmetic proceduers but rather muscule spasticity where the Botox dosing is much higher.  Good lucK!

Botox has not been reported to cause blindness and it is frequently injected around the eyes for cosmetic purposes. You are probably thinking of the rare occurrence of blindness that has been reported when fillers (not Botox) are improperly injected too deeply between the eyes.

 

This is an extremely rare occurrence. Blindness can occur if the injection is made into the eyeball itself or injections have caused significant internal bleeding around the eyeball. Three patients have been reported to Allergan as having blurred vision, retinal vein occlusion, and glaucoma due to Botox injections.

Though rare in filler injections too, this is much more of a relevant problem. Injections into the glabella region ( to further correct the "11's" for instance following Botox injections), may be performed too deeply and the filler can get sucked up into the retinal artery, causing occlusion and subsequent blindness.