Worst Mistake - Made Me Look Worse and Horrible Side Effects - California

Just wanted to update since my last post. It's been a crazy, painful and depressing 5 months since the botox. Although there are some improvements, I get relapses which sets me back physically and mentally. My face is still not back to normal. The minute I start seeing some improvements, my face is back to hideous disfigurement and pain the next day. Physical pain was unbearable first 3-4 months. Now, overall headache has gotten better, but the facial pain, especially around the eyelids and eyebrows, is still there. Feels like there are rocks in my eyelids and I still have hard time opening my eyes. My eye shape seems like it is permanently changed and they are smaller in size. Honestly, I don't know when I will get my eyes back. If there is someone out there whose eyes returned to 100% normal, please let me know. My overall health has gone downhill. Just waking up everyday is a struggle. I am in fatigue everyday. My stomach seems to be sensitive to everything now. There are so many things I don't even have the energy to list them. This has affected in every aspect of my life. It's been very hard trying to stay positive. I can't imaging living like this rest of my life. I never thought this would happen to me and here I am. If anyone minimizes the risk of botox, please run from them. I hope this poison gets banned. To people who are still denying that this was from botox, please wake up! I was a completely healthy person before this. I ate healthy and went to the gym several times a week. Didn't drink or smoke. All my blood tests came out normal. Just because it did not happen to you does not mean that it is not happening to others!

Oh, I forgot to mention...I did go see the dermatologist after few months. Her immediate response was something like "I've never heard anything like this happening. It's not caused by botox." I should have just flipped the chain was sitting on right then. Really? Not even eyelid droop?? I mentioned some of these things are listed on the website as known side effects, and she told me that they are very rare and reminded me that I signed the release. BY the way, I don't remember the release mentioning anything about hooded saggy eyelids, enlarged muscles above the eyebrows, continuous headaches for months, visible veins, lax skin, and new wrinkles! Try mentioning all that in the release and see how many people sign it! I asked her why she repeatedly told me "no" when asked if botox has the possibility to affect eyelids/eyes, and she tells me because it never happens; it is so rare. Then she made it sound like it was my FAULT for being so sensitive to botox and not coming in earlier to resolve the issue. She mentions at the end that some of her patients choose to use eye drops for droopy eyelids. Um, I thought you just said that these instances are so rare that you've never seen them before? Lie much? Unbelievable. They are nice to you when they are trying to sell you something but treat you like garbage when you come back with issues. They act like it's not their problem anymore and somehow blame you for it.

I got 20 units of botox in my frontalis and glabellar muscles 3 months ago to erase a line on my forehead and slight 11's that were starting to form. Other than that I had no other wrinkles and my skin was in great shape. I think I just got greedy and wanted to have completely smooth forehead like I had in my early twenties. I went to board certified dermatologist who claimed she has done many many botox injections. When asked about any possible side effects, she told me it is very safe and may cause slight headache on the first day and that's about it. I asked several times if it can affect my eyes or eyelids in anyway because that is one of my main fears. She assured me over and over that botox will not affect my eyes or eyelids. Within an hour after botox, I immediately felt heaviness around the forehead and my eyelids. It was so heavy that I was forced to close my eyes few times. I actually looked fine first week, but by the beginning of the second week the inner corners of my eyebrows and eyelids dropped. From then on, I experienced multiple physical ailments and changes in my face:
- Spock eyebrows along with slanted hooded eyelids that became more droopy and saggy as weeks went by. It took all my energy to keep them open. I felt tired just keeping my eyes open.
- Nausea, horrible painful headaches and heaviness especially my forehead and eyelid area. Some days it was so bad I couldn't even work. Also have random tender spots on my forehead that comes and goes.
-Blurred vision, seeing floaters when I wake up or make sudden movements (this went away after few weeks)
- ringing in the ear (this went away after few days thankfully)
- neck and jaw pain. My jaws are always tense and painful even when I was trying to relax.
- bulging visible veins on my forehead
-new wrinkles on the forehead. I developed new wrinkles above my eyebrows and new wrinkles on top right part of my forehead. I've never had wrinkles there before.
- enlarged uneven muscles above my eyebrows that look almost swollen. This actually pisses me off more than my eyelids. It makes me look like an angry caveman . I look like I am frowning even when I am smiling. My forehead used to be completely flat! This along with spock eyes made me look real attractive and friendly as you can imagine.
- lax thin skin. I used to have firm thick skin and now my forehead feels loose and thin overall. Not just my forehead, but I feel like I've lost of of fat/padding around my face. I am not exactly sure what has caused this but it makes me look much much older.
Now, some days are better than others, but I am still suffering 3 months after! I am able to move my forehead now, but it's not the same. It feels like my forehead learned to use different muscles during the time when the main muscles were frozen by botox, thus causing the new wrinkles to form in addition to the wrinkles I've had before botox. I don't look like myself. Although my eyebrows seemed to have returned to normal position, my eyelids are still saggy and loose (and still partially hooded). People ask me if I am angry/ill/tired. My mother the other day asked me what happened to my eyes lol. I am sure other people have great results from botox but my experience has been so so awful. I think with botox, when it's good it's good, but when it's bad it's REALLY BAD. Even after you get through all the suffering, it's not like you come out looking better than before. I look like I've aged at least 5 years in few months. You don't appreciate how pretty and healthy you were before something like this happens to you. I regret getting botox everyday. I wish that the doctor was more honest during the consultation.