Rarely, Botox can affect your heart. It has the potential to cause heart rhythm problems or even heart attacks. This can be more likely if you already have heart problems. Be sure to talk about any heart problems with your healthcare provider before receiving Botox.
What is less common and to be explored, is whether it is possible recipients can experience toxicity from Botox. This may cause rare, yet far more serious complications such as heart palpitations, dizziness, chest pain, tachycardia, breathlessness and hypotension.
Possible side effects and unwanted results include: Pain, swelling or bruising at the injection site. Headache or flu-like symptoms. Droopy eyelids or crooked eyebrows.
Headaches and hypoesthesia usually last for 24–48 h after botulinum toxin treatment. Dry mouth sensation and flu-like mild malaise can also occur after botulinum toxin injections [6]. Bruising and headaches can be a common complication after botulinum toxin used in the treatment of rosacea flushing [9, 10].
Perhaps most importantly, Botox was not associated with increased risk of complications in this study. Experts are encouraged by study findings. Not only does it appear that Botox is effective, it's safe for preventing AFib in patients undergoing heart surgery.
If you are in poor general health, your skin is very thick or you have existing muscle weakness in the proposed injection site, you may not be a good candidate for Botox. Patients with sensitive skin may experience an allergic reaction at the injection site.
Botox gets its name from the Botulinum toxin, a protein extracted from Clostridum botulinum (mentioned above). If this live bacteria enters the bloodstream, it will attach itself to muscles and replicate, weakening or completely immobilizing the muscle. This toxin is in fact quite deadly.
The results from Botox last anywhere between 2-6 months; the average result lasts about 3-4 months. Why does Botox eventually stop working? Your body makes new neurotransmitters all the time, so the “blocking” effect of Botox gradually wears off as these chemicals start circulating in your body again.
The research shows that having facial Botox injections for cosmetic reasons can also produce side-effects including muscle stiffness, pain, dizziness and even a heart attack.
As with many other drugs, Botox has the potential of causing an allergic reaction in some individuals. Symptoms of an allergic reaction following Botox treatment may be mild or severe and can include: Itching. Rash.
With Botox, “we're limiting the muscle contractions that lead to folds, so yes, it can feel funny in the beginning, because you're not able to move muscles that would normally contract on command,” he explains.
While there is no evidence suggesting that Botox causes anxiety, many people have questioned Botox injections' side effects and long-term effects. Perhaps the only way Botox would cause anxiety is the nerves building up before the first Botox appointment.
Usually, an injection site reaction from Botox is mild and last no more than several days. Symptoms may develop a few hours or days after a Botox injection, and can include: pain.
Don't lay down for the first 4 hours after having Botox
You might be sore or a little tired after having Botox injected, but you should avoid laying down for the first four hours after the injections. Both bending and laying down could spread the toxin and lead to bruising at the injection site.
Technically no, there is no reversal for Botox. Once it kicks in you have to wait for it to wear off or augment the results in some way (when possible). The good news is that it's not permanent and results gradually wear off over 3-4 months.
If you use Botox for ten or more years, your skin will appear brighter and smoother with fewer wrinkles. Even after stopping Botox injections after years of use, you'll still notice fewer wrinkles between your eyes or on your forehead, which means you'll continue to age gracefully.
Hence, botulinum toxin A might also affect vasoreactivity or interact with the coagulation cascade, endothelial cells or platelets and in turn promote thrombus formation. Indeed, single cases of myocardial infarction, pulmonary embolism, and even death have been reported after botulinum toxin A injection.
You should avoid injecting botulinum toxin into the frontalis muscle, which is the muscle that raises your eyebrows and arches your forehead. You should also try to not inject botox into several other facial muscles, such as those that allow you to smile or chew.
As one of the possible risks of fillers and Botox, vascular occlusion (VO) happens when the injection hits an artery. It can also result when the arteries and capillaries surrounding the injected area are compressed.
After the age of 35, it may be too late to benefit from the preventive capacity of Botox®, especially if you have a very expressive face or fair skin, are genetically predisposed, or have unhealthy lifestyle habits such as using tan beds, overexposing yourself in the sun, or smoking.
People of any age can get treatment with Botox, and it is regularly used on people between the ages of 25 and 50 particularly. No matter how old or young you are, however, this treatment can relax the look of wrinkles and even stop them from forming in the first place.
Although this is a less serious problem, BOTOX® could interfere with some medications. These include drugs to treat myasthenia gravis, certain antibiotics, anticoagulants like warfarin, and some drugs used to treat Alzheimer's.