Hi Everyone,
It was my 12 month anniversary for my Botox injections on the 15 Feb…….you know something has really impacted you when you give it an anniversary! :)
This last month I feel like I am regaining my strength and my hope because my body feels like it’s making significant progress……….
The symptoms that I still have cycling through are:
- Slight facial pressure – just under my eyes
- Slight facial twitches – mainly around the eyes now (sometimes body twitches as well but not enough for me to really think about it)
- The muscles around my mouth/jaw area still feel sluggish but I feel this has improved a lot
- My shoulders/head/neck still get tired and sore very easily – and it’s that inner heavy Botox feeling…..but once again much improvement
- I just had a round of only one mouth ulcer which was accompanied by the back of my tongue being very sore on both sides to touch……right from the start I would have the cycle of mouth ulcers, sore cheeks and sore tongue but it use to be the whole length of my tongue on the sides and also the inside of my cheeks that would just be so painful but as time has gone on and through each cycle it seems that the soreness became less and less each time to the point now that my cheeks and the front two thirds of my tongue rarely get sore anymore.
- Sometimes I get that slight vertigo feeling/slightly blocked ears/brain fog but minimal
The best improvement for me has been my neuralgia especially in my jaw – it has settled right down………I know this stuff cycles so I will feel more confident after a few months have passed and these symptoms haven’t returned – but this last month has given me real hope that I am on the mend. I have been unable to spend a lot of time on the site in the last month but hoping to add some more articles in the next month – possibly some more videos. It’s so great to see everyone supporting each other and providing information on the site – we want everyone to feel like this is their site to use their experiences to help others……..so if you have any ideas for the site please let us know
Hi, Annette!
I am so glad to hear that you have improved. It gives hope to all others!!!
One way to spread our experience further would be to facilitate finding this site via google. If you look “botox side effects”, this site don not come up. I found this page when I wrote “botox insomnia”.
I think most people start looking for just “botox side effects”. What do you think, Annette?
I have also placed our site on Facebook where there is a page about the horrible experiences after Botox. I have checked on youtube “Botox side effects” and it came up only positive experiences (I feel sick when I hear how good Botox is!!)
In other words, this website will be more easily accessible and pop up when you search on Botox side effects.
Maria
Hi Annette!!!!!!!!! it’s a great news that your health has been improved. I also want to thank you for your support. We all will be healthy one day. Katrin
Hi Katrin
Thanks so much for your message……..I have been thinking of you and hoping that you have seen some improvements. Please keep in touch and let us know how you are going……I hope your daughter has been well and that her love is able to help you through this rough time x
Hi Maria
Thanks so much for your message. I also hope you are continuing to see improvements. Cameron has been working on getting our site to come up on Google whenever people search for Botox related info – I think it is sometimes difficult to get on the first page of results for Google but we are continuing to try!! I think the more people that visit the site also makes it more accessible from Google. I think this is a great idea Maria and we will keep trying to get our site coming up for the search ‘botox side effects’. Thanks so much for linking us in with Facebook – also with You tube we have a channel ‘Botox Support Community’ so if you search this it will come up…..I think I need to spend more time on their building up videos and comments to make us more visible when people search ‘Botox’.
Thanks again for all your support Maria – you provide such great info and support on here…….hope to hear from you soon x
Congratulations on reaching your 12 month milestone and feeling better!
I have been visiting this website since I found it 2 months ago, but didn’t create a profile until the other day, as I was in too bad of a shape. It definitely gives me hope to hear that you are doing better! You have done such a great service by creating this website- thank you! I didn’t see it in time to stop myself from going through this hell, yet again, but I finally have a name for the health condition I have been suffering from the last few years. And that is something no doctor had been able to tell me.
Hi Rose
I really appreciated your message…thanks :)……I saw your registration the other day and I am really sorry that you have been through so much due to the Botox injections. I am so happy that you have found this site and I think through your experiences you can offer much information on the site. Just to let you know that your profile wont be seen until you ‘add posts’ on the home page when you logon. If you like just copy and paste the info you have provided on the registration into a new post – I think the other members would be interested to hear your story and also it may help other people who are also unaware about Botox being the cause of their health issues.
I really hope you keep in touch with us all and let us know how you are progressing…….I am hoping that you are also seeing improvements – sometimes they are slow and gradual but they really are a blessing when they happen! Talk to you soon x
I was reading on this site that sometimes people don’t have I don’t remember but anyways its something that recognizes toxins and some people don’t have it so it just gets reabsorbed by the body over and over again it was on a lyme disease website about how to keep it in the colon with questran and not letting it be reabdorbed
I am familiar with the site that you are talking about. There is a physician by the name of Dr Ritchie Shoemaker. He developed a treatment regiman using Questran for the removal of neurotoxins such as those with Lyme disease. Dr Jacob Tettlebaum (sp?)Who is a fairlt well-known wholistic physician..also cites Dr Shoemaker’s treatment regiman. However..this treatment is highly controversial, is not supported by clinical trials..and for many, this drug is very taxing on the liver. There is no evidence that this regimen who actually work with a botulism neurotoxin, given that the mechanism of toxin removal is unknown. I know that when I first read about this possible treatment…I was encouraged and of course was almost willing to try anything. However…after researching it more…you will find very controversial comments about this doctor…and testing methods for whether you would be a candidate for this treatment is no longer available on his website. I am all for trying things that may help…but we must be very careful to not cause possibly more harm to our bodies through that process.
There has to be something to get this out
sick and tired: While the research on this is limited, the problem is that from what we understand about botulism, is there is nothing to “get out”. Botulism is a bacteria that supposedly does not live in the body very long. What is does is attack the cranial nerves which really can affect any area of the body. THe botox paralyzes the nerves, the body grows nerve sprouts which try and function until the paralyzed nerves regenerate but until that happens there is misfiring of the nerves which cause our symptoms.
That is why those doing detox methods don’t seem to heal any faster. Its a matter of waiting for the time it takes for that process to happen. Rest, reducing stress, eating well, etc., all support the body while that is happening but there doesn’t seem to be anything that makes a difference in how quickly we heal.
I think you are right Lily – I truly believe this is the process. I think about the last 12 months and time has been the only factor that I can link to my healing. Nothing else has worked – I just appreciate that the body eventually does heal by itself (hopefully to pre Botox health) and I think you are right – the body needs rest, good food and the least amount of stress possible to assist with this healing.
I think that it is still in the body the only reason I think this is because when this started to happen the back of my head a was swollen and a lymph node swelled up on my neck and is still there so that means that there is still an infection or something and if this wasn’t in our body’s then why does taking medicines cause such a reaction I don’t know but it has done something to my stomach to where it is like it is paralized I don’t really know this just sucks I hate it
sick and tired:
One of the cranial nerves is the vagus nerve which runs all the way down to our digestive system. Our digestion gets totally impaired and one of the side effects of botox is slowed digestion time. So yes, it probably does feel like your stomach is “paralyzed” because the nerves that go to the stomach and control its function and indeed “paralyzed” and can’t function like normal.
Enlarged lymph nodes are also listed as a botox side effect.
Inflammation is also a side effect and many of us have had that in various areas of our bodies.
It would almost be easier if there was something to “pull out” of our systems as then detox methods would help but they don’t seem to.
Interestingly, those of us who have had blood work often times do not show any increase in white blood cells which is what increases if there is an infection present. Mine were normal. I know of one person who was having really intense symptoms whose white blood cell count was actually below normal. Some people seem to have a temporarily high count but it doesn’t seem to last very long as it is usually normal on their next blood test.
I think the reason why taking meds can cause reactions in some of us it the extra sensitivity of our nervous systems in general. And the fact that we are not digesting properly. The fact that this is nerve based is also why some people can take an anti-anxiety or anti-depressant med and get relief of their stomach problems and body pain.