Too Much Botox Injected on Area

You definitely want to make sure you are getting treated by a licensed medical professional. Although Botox is a non surgical alternative, you do not want to let an amateur inject your face with this solution.  Too much Botox can lead to drooping of the eyebrows.  Other more serious side effects from Botox include symptoms consistent with botulinum toxin effects.  If you have not experienced generalized muscle weakness or urinary incontinence and breathing difficulties, you should be just fine.  In the future, however, I want you to be careful where you get your Botox done.

If your practitioner injected too much Botox, the only likely side effect would be eyelid droop if he/she injected in the forehead or brow area (between the eyes included).
When too much Botox is used in this area, the effect is to relax the facial muscles too much causing the brow and eyelids to appear heavy and droop. This will usually resolve within several months but in the meantime there's not much that can be done.

Finding a physician to perform Botox procedures is extremely important as the marketplace becomes saturated with physicians and paramedical staff performing the procedure.
In your particular case, it is reassuring that you have found a physician who is undoubtedly honest and trustworthy. Mistakes can happen even in the best situation, but the approach your physician took to explain the situation to you is commendable.
Experience is absolutely necessary in acheiving optimal results with any cosmetic procedure. I would advise going to a Board Certified physician with extensive experience in the field of aesthetic rejuvenation.
The long term effects of the botox injection are trivial as the product is temporary and will dissipate with time.

Hi Bam Bam,
Any undesirable effects of the "Oops, I just emptied the entire syringe of neurotoxin into your head" injection should be apparent within 3 to 10 days after the injection. This is one case where you hope that your injector diluted or watered down your Botox. The effects will depend upon the number of units injected and the area injected.
Let us know how it turns out, hopefully no harm, no foul.
Dr. P

BamBam,
The side-effect of too much Botox injected into one area really depends on where it was injected and how much was injected. The absolute amount of Botox injected likely is not more than 100 U (assuming that your doctor was using a highly concentrated technique and injected the entire syringe). Most likely, there was 50 or 25 units in the syringe.
Even if it was 100 units, you should not have any systemic side-effects since we inject much, much more Botox for non-cosmetic patients. So, the real issue is where your Botox was over injected. Most likely, you will only have minor issues like a completely paralyzed forehead - especially since in the past the trend was to inject much more Botox than we inject these days.
You really will just have to wait and see. If it has already been a week since your injection, you are probably fine. In any case, the Botox will be gone in 3 to 6 months with no residual effects.

Administering too much Botox in one area can cause the Botox to leak into areas that you don't want blocked.
Typically you would see the desired and undesired effects of Botox at 2 - 3 days. If you don't have any problems at that point it is unlikely that you will have problems as time goes on.
I hope this helps.

It's a good thing that your physician told you that too much Botox was accidentally injected, so you can together be aware and watch for any problems. Chances are you will not have any dangerous long term side effects. Likely mostly just annoyance if an area is weaker or smoother than you want, but it should fully resolve over 2.5 to 4 months. If this was a standard type of injection by a licensed, traditional, ethical physician, there should have been no more than about 50 units in the syringe--100 max.

 

If your eyelid ends up droopy, there are methods to try to make that less of a problem until it wears off. Keep in touch with this physician, and if it was not a board-certified dermatologist or plastic surgeon, consider whether you might want to try someoene else if you are concerned.

 

Keep in mind that Botox is a very useful but very powerful medicine. When selecting a physician for Botox, make sure that they are a board-certified plastic surgeon or dermatologist. These specialties have the most experience with Botox and can help the patient get the best result.

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It wouldn't make a difference as the area would be 'frozen' by Botox. Over-injection was a 'slip' in this case but no harm should be expected unless it diffused into another area and gave you a functional problem, like with the upper eyelids.

I am not sure what you really mean. Was the entire syreinge injected into one area? I would doubt that. If for instance too much was injected in one area, it probably wouldn;t make a difference unless it was close to the upper eyelid where it may migrate a bit into the levator muscle of the eyelid and cause a droop.