I'm 2 days post Botox around my lips for small vertical lines. Should I still be experiencing swollen lips?

Hi Jan. I have never had any of my patients experience significant swelling after Botox injections, especially around the mouth for vertical lip lines. This is unusual and I would recommend following up with your injector (who was hopefully a physician) to see if everything is OK. Best of luck.

Sometimes you can get a
little fullness because the decreased activity of the muscles doesn’t pump
tissue fluid out as well – and most people like that. We also published an
article several years ago showing that botox can also increase the amount of
lip show; this was without swelling- just relaxation of the pursed lips
which pulls the lip inward allows the lip to go back to a more normal position.
And I doubt the prednisone will help unless you are having a very rare reaction
to the botox – I have never seen that though in the thousands of lips that I
have injected with botox.