OT - Botox

[kbwolf]

Hello,

I read your thread (2 years later) and wanted to know if the botox wore off and if your eyes were corrected. The EXACT same thing happened to me. I used a board certified plastic surgeon and told him before hand that my eyes were deep and already slightly asymmetrical. I am absolutely moritfied by the outcome of the botox. I feel like a freak and I am worried that this is really permanent. Like you, I am also sensitive to meds and was once on lexapro which I cut a 10mg into 5mg. So, already have some anxieties.

[Eden]

Not been there myself, but I used to work in a hospital. One of the nurses had the same thing (maybe worse, she couldn't keep one of her eyes open at all!). We video taped her opening her eyelid manually with her fingers and then watched it slowly close up again.... It was not permanent and she could eventually open her eye normally again - but it think it takes several months to wear off.

[shootingstar]

thx, for sharing.

..and I didn't know botox had some other uses. But unbelievable someone was recommended it...for migraines??

[bambu101]

I had Botox injections into the facet joints and surrounding muscles of my cervical spine to reduce severe pain from a whiplash injury in 2001.

Didn't help a whole lot.

[Natural Beauty]

So....the protein from botulism which is a toxin, is injected to paralyze the muscle....is that why they think it would work on severe muscle pain?
Sounds kind of yucky. If needles are going to be used wouldn't accupuncture be a better form of treatment?

I don't know, I've never needed to paralyze muscle before.

[Eden]

They used to use botox where I worked to stop "gustatory sweating". I guess if you have to have your paraotid (salivary) glands removed sometimes the nerves that control them can grow back into your skin and activate your sweat glands, so every time you eat or even think about or smell something that might ordinarily make your mouth water you sweat profusely from your face instead....

They would inject botox to paralyze the nerves and stop the sweating.

The nurse I knew worked in that clinic, so I think that's how she got interested in botox in the first place.

[Dogmama]

Yes, the botox wore off but it took about 10 weeks. I really looked like a sleepy-eyed lizard. Not being able to move your forehead muscles is too weird. I'll never do it again.

[Miranda]

Well, this is a bit of irony for me on the date. Until I read through this thread, I didn't realize this post was 2yrs old... but still going obviously.

I too had a very negative experience with taking the biggest "out there" leap of faith in my life getting "a little work done", as they say in the cosmetic biz. It's my one year anniversary date from the last surgery of a multiple mess from Dr. Disaster. I will never be the same.

I had two areas I wanted to address... the other choice was something for my face. Like the Botox, and/or a filler, etc. I opted for the other at the time as a higher priority. All I can say about that is THANK GAWD IT WAS NOT MY FACE! I did first because that one clothes doesn't cover. I try to find the positive when something bad happens. I guess that is one. Plus, what a lesson in the old saying "don't mess with Mother Nature".

I'm having my big Four O this year. Then are many things in midlife from younger years I'm finding I want to return to. Repairing some of time's damage cosmetically was one. Refinding my love for my bike from childhood was another. The second is a keeper. I believe all things happen for a reason. Some people (& my friends) have no issues what so ever with what I had done, or things like Botox. Why that could not be me too, I don't know.

I think it taught me also to remember simple times in life, like when I rode my bike as a girl, to be true to myself. I just got my first gray hair too... I almost think I am just not even going back for highlights again, much less color my grays as they come. I've ditched most of my glamorous make-up for simplicity. Wrinkles showing galore. Even cut off my long salon gel manicured nails to learn a new instrument... music, another childhood return.

I think I just about feel like... screw it... what you see is what you get... because honey, that's just the way it is.

[Dogmama]

Well, I still gotta highlight my hair. When I get more grey, I'll stop because grey roots are tacky & I don't have time nor inclination to go get it colored as often as that would take.

Nails are gone though - just a coat of clear otherwise they'd peel up to my elbows. I'm dog training now and icky sticky hot dogs & cheese under nails is really gross at the end of the day.

(Hot dogs & cheese make dogs smarter...)

[Miranda]

Well, I still gotta highlight my hair. When I get more grey, I'll stop because grey roots are tacky & I don't have time nor inclination to go get it colored as often as that would take.

Nails are gone though - just a coat of clear otherwise they'd peel up to my elbows. I'm dog training now and icky sticky hot dogs & cheese under nails is really gross at the end of the day.

(Hot dogs & cheese make dogs smarter...)

I don't know why the cheese makes the dogs smarter, but it does. We have been looking at getting a new puppy since my yellow girl is gone. I'm glad I didn't have the makeup or nails when we saw them today as their puppy mouths would have eaten them (as though they were cheese). I think after feeling so freakishly wigged out, my inner self was crying out 'bring me back'... or something like that. Eventually, some lip gloss might resurface... the puppy needs another course to compliment the cheese.

[Tokie]

I didn't know this was an old thread either, just had to add my 2cents! My girlfriend (RN also) works for a dermatologist administers Botox injections to her patients for cosmetic results. My friend gets injections (if there is any "left over" in a vial of it) on her forehead. Strategically injected, the botox paralyzes one muscle area and actually gives her a bit of a forehead lift! she has light bangs and no significant forehead wrinkling to complicate the situation. she says it's partly why she continues working there - to get the leftover botox forehead facelift!