What happens if Botox injected to close to eye?

Injections near the eyes pose the most risk, and these areas are commonly used to combat crow's feet and brow lines. After the Botox is injected, the eyes can become very irritated and dry, and can go quite bloodshot and red. This irritation can then increase into blurred vision and the inability to see correctly.

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How close to the eye can you go with Botox?

Answer: There's no problem. botox can be injected very close to the eye...the squish you heard/saw was the fluid the botox was dissolved in moving into the surrounding skin... rest assured...

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Where should you not inject Botox into your eyes?

A qualified, experienced injector should never inject the area near the orbital bone right above the pupil. If Botox is injected here, it can drift down toward the upper eyelid and cause an eyelid droop. This can last from weeks to even months.

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Can Botox damage eye muscles?

Answer: No permanent damage

Since Botox injections produce temporary results, it won't cause permanent damage to eye muscles either.

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Will droopy eye from Botox go away?

In most cases, droopy eyelid occurs between one and three weeks after treatment, and patients typically experience this adverse effect for just a few weeks. According to Dr. Holman, “It's important to remember that, like Botox treatments, a drooping eyelid is usually temporary. The effect will wear off after a while.

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Why do my eyes look weird after Botox?

This is a side effect of Botox treatments, which can be caused by having an injection done too close to your eyebrows, which pushes them down and in turn, makes your eyelids droopy and puffy.

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Can Botox paralyze eye muscles?

Occasionally, some of the Botox seeps into the upper eyelid and paralyzes the levator palpebrae — the muscle that holds the upper eyelid up. If this muscle is paralyzed, the upper eyelid will droop.

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What happens if Botox is injected too deep?

If the injection is done too fast or too deep, excessive swelling and bruising can occur. Bruising is especially common if the injector hits a vein or pushes to hard. While this is a temporary side effect, the patient will be forced to live with an unsightly bruise for days if not weeks.

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Can Botox cause eye nerve damage?

Conclusion. Botulinum toxin-induced neuropathy is a rare and vision-threatening complication of BTA. In patients with recent injection of BTA who present with visual complaints, botulinum toxin-induced neuropathy should be considered.

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How many days after Botox does ptosis occur?

Lid and brow ptosis from Botox usually appears a few days to a week after being injected. Usually, it gets better after three to four weeks.

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What happens if a Botox injection hits a nerve?

Answer: Botox hit a nerve

Just as you have described, a nerve was hit along the hairline and feels like an electric sensation when touched. Though very uncommon this can happen with any kind of injection done. While it is painful for a bit, it will resolve on its own in the next week or two and stop hurting.

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Can Botox cause eye stroke?

Botox will not cause a stroke.

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What happens if Botox goes into a nerve?

Once inside a neuron, botulinum toxin cleaves proteins responsible for fusion of chemical containers, known as vesicles, with the plasma membrane. This fusion event releases chemical signals that underlie communication with muscles, and the inability to fuse leads to the temporary paralysis caused by botulinum toxin.

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How can I fix my Botox gone wrong?

You can make a follow up appointment with your provider, and they might be able to fix things. But in many cases, the best thing to do is to wait things out. There's no enzyme that can reverse Botox, so it might just be that you have to wait for it to wear off.

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How do you know if Botox is wrong?

Here are six telltale signs that your patient has had bad Botox and what you can do to fix the problem:
  1. Spock Eyebrows. If your patient has overly arched eyebrows—sort of like Mr. ...
  2. Upper Eyelid Hooding. ...
  3. Brow Ptosis. ...
  4. Facial Asymmetry. ...
  5. Frozen Expression. ...
  6. There's No Difference.

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Can you sue if Botox goes wrong?

You Experienced Unreasonable Damage

Even Botox treatment, which is reasonably straightforward, doesn't always come without a few side effects that lead to Botox legal issues. However, you may be able to make a botched cosmetic surgery claim if your procedure resulted in unreasonable damage.

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Can Botox around the eyes cause blindness?

Botox is not known to cause blindness, and it is a very rare complication of some fillers.

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How can I speed up Botox wearing off?

Exercising – Exercising increases the blood supply to all your muscles including your facial muscles and so this can result your Botox to wear off faster.

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What does too much Botox look like?

Too much Botox in the forehead muscles can cause the eyebrows to droop, making the upper eyelids look very heavy and hooded. The face may look angry or sad all the time. Too much Botox around the eyes can dramatically affect facial expression. The face is simply frozen.

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How do you fix heavy eyebrows after Botox?

The Frontalis is the muscle in your forehead which controls the raising of your eyebrows. After 2 weeks, if you still feel heaviness, try gentle eyebrow raising exercises and blinking your eyelids rapidly for 30 seconds. Do this 4 times daily for 2-4 days as it may help resolve the heaviness.

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Can Botox be injected incorrectly?

However, when it is not performed properly, Botox can result in a "frozen" or fake look. The most common causes of botched Botox are: Improper injection techniques. Many unskilled injectors make the mistake of injecting Botox too deeply or too superficially into the skin.

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How do you know if you hit a nerve when injecting?

Unlike some veins, nerves are not visible from outside the body, although you will definitely know if you've hit one while injecting because you'll experience extreme pain and no blood will enter the syringe when you pull back to register. You may feel an electric “burn” along your limb.

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Can your face get paralyzed from Botox?

If BOTOX is not administered correctly, it can cause facial paralysis. But this is very rare and usually transient.

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Can Botox cause blood clot in eye?

Answer: Botox and blood clot

There doesn't seem to be a correlation between Botox injections and blood clots.

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Can Botox spread to the brain?

Muscle-paralyzing drug can move from the skin to the brain

The toxin cuts off communication between nerve cells by destroying SNAP-25, a protein that controls the release of neurotransmitters. The disruption paralyzes the muscles controlled by the nerve cells.

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