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Botox for Forehead Worth It, Botox/Dysport For Brow Asymmetry -- NOT Worth It
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Botox for Forehead Worth It, Botox/Dysport For Brow Asymmetry -- NOT Worth It
I have asymmetrical eyebrows, with one eyebrow 4mm lower than the other. The first nurse injector at Naficy Rejuvenation Center who did this procedure for me (Lisa) placed 1 unit of botox under that brow (along with 1 at each temple and 17 through the corrugators and procerus) and it lifted slightly and the result was just great.
Four months later I went to another clinic because they were having a special on Dysport. The nurse said 1 unit (which would be 3 Dysport) would be too little, even though I had had a good experience with that low dose before. She put in the equivalent of 3 units Botox -- 9 of Dysport. Well, my droopy eyebrow dropped and locked. It looked AWFUL. I didn't have much of a crease in that eye in the fist place and it was gone, with my upper eyelid bulging over my eyelashes. The other side, which was already higher, then created a Spock look. I went back for correction and she seemed utterly baffled as to why it had happened. She decided to put 2 more units of Botox in the same place to raise it, but I knew it wouldn't work. A neurotoxin is a neurotoxin and she clearly hit the wrong nerve or muscle. I just had to live with it for months.
I called to make another appointment six months later at Naficy's. The nurse injector had gone on maternity leave. Yvette also didn't like the idea of just 1 unit under the droopy brow and used 3. Well, the same thing happened. That brow just dropped even more and felt extremely heavy, and the other side spocked. Thankfully, Yvette knew how to fix the spock, by placing a unit at the temple (why didn't the previous clinic do that?!). She said she wanted to put more on the droopy side and I emphatically declined.
Yvette did one more treatment for me trying to lift the brow, this time using the units at the temple which prevented the spock, but yep, that lower lid just dropped all the more again, feeling horribly heavy.
Next time I saw Yvette I asked her to please just do the middle! And got the results I wanted, letting the lower brow just be itself.
I'm guessing that the 1 unit Lisa used just stayed in place and did it's job, and the higher number of units diffused up into the frontalis, and dropped the brow. A little annoying no one could believe me that 1 unit worked!
Four months later I went to another clinic because they were having a special on Dysport. The nurse said 1 unit (which would be 3 Dysport) would be too little, even though I had had a good experience with that low dose before. She put in the equivalent of 3 units Botox -- 9 of Dysport. Well, my droopy eyebrow dropped and locked. It looked AWFUL. I didn't have much of a crease in that eye in the fist place and it was gone, with my upper eyelid bulging over my eyelashes. The other side, which was already higher, then created a Spock look. I went back for correction and she seemed utterly baffled as to why it had happened. She decided to put 2 more units of Botox in the same place to raise it, but I knew it wouldn't work. A neurotoxin is a neurotoxin and she clearly hit the wrong nerve or muscle. I just had to live with it for months.
I called to make another appointment six months later at Naficy's. The nurse injector had gone on maternity leave. Yvette also didn't like the idea of just 1 unit under the droopy brow and used 3. Well, the same thing happened. That brow just dropped even more and felt extremely heavy, and the other side spocked. Thankfully, Yvette knew how to fix the spock, by placing a unit at the temple (why didn't the previous clinic do that?!). She said she wanted to put more on the droopy side and I emphatically declined.
Yvette did one more treatment for me trying to lift the brow, this time using the units at the temple which prevented the spock, but yep, that lower lid just dropped all the more again, feeling horribly heavy.
Next time I saw Yvette I asked her to please just do the middle! And got the results I wanted, letting the lower brow just be itself.
I'm guessing that the 1 unit Lisa used just stayed in place and did it's job, and the higher number of units diffused up into the frontalis, and dropped the brow. A little annoying no one could believe me that 1 unit worked!
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