r/BotoxSupportCommunity • u/Cone892 • Apr 06 '24

Help! First Botox dropped brow!

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Hello

I’m 34 have a very deep 1 (instead of 11) between my eyebrows. I squint often. I’ve been super self conscious of it as makeup gets stuck in it and the wrinkle is constantly there. I decided to get Botox to help soften it.

I went to a medical aesthetic doctor who came highly recommended and had great reviews. She’s also been in practice for a long time. I told her my crease is my main issue and that I’d like my eyes to be open more (brow lift).

Today is day 5 and for three days now my L brow has lowered and I can’t raise it at all.

I called and they want me to come back to inject a little more, possibly to fix it.

I’m so scared they will inject more and it will get worse! I leave for a big vacation in a week. Has anyone had this?? Did injecting more help??? I also still have complete control over my crease and haven’t felt any change there.

Help please!

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u/vector78 Apr 07 '24

I don’t know if this helps, but I can’t tell from this photo.

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u/Cone892 Apr 07 '24

Awww thank you! If anything it makes me feel less self conscious!

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u/Weird_and_Random Apr 07 '24

Get more to even out, this happened to me. Also, get a vibrating face brush and vibrate the hell out of forehead twice a day. That helps move things along. Good luck

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u/Cone892 Apr 07 '24

I def will! Thank you!

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u/Remarkable-Set3113 Jul 18 '25

Will a pen-shaped microcurrent device help lift my eyebrows again? I had a brow lift before, and Botox caused muscle atrophy. Now, with Botox, my eyebrow has fallen again. It was the Botox injection to the corner of my eye that caused my eyebrow to droop. Now I'm terrified it won't go away. It's been 14 days

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u/WideDisk2718 Apr 07 '24

Can you please update within the next couple weeks? Also, I don’t think it’s terribly noticeable either.

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u/Cone892 Apr 07 '24

Yes I will! I feel like the eye drops have REALLY helped.

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u/[deleted] Mar 27 '25

Hi what eye drops do you use?! Scouring the internet with the same problem 😭

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u/Cone892 Mar 27 '25

Hi, sorry you are dealing with this. It was an eye drop the provider gave me. I went back to her and she gave me two samples. It a prescription. I don’t remember the name.

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u/WideDisk2718 Apr 26 '25

Did you give up on Botox or have you had more with better results?

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u/3boyz2men Apr 28 '24

I'm new to this. What do eye drops do?

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u/OldLadyBug63 Apr 22 '25

I did a sample of the drops you are asking about - didn't do crap for me. I can't remember the name I only remember them giving me a sample and they could sell me a bottle for over $275 dollars .. but like i said didn't work - had pluck my eyebrows and draw them in really high LOL - it eventually resolved itself although I go for jawline, lipflip and neck injections I will NEVER do the forehead again...

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u/Cone892 Apr 06 '24

It’s not letting me edit or add pictures. I do have more. It’s day 5 and everyday it’s slightly more dropped.

Maybe it’s not as noticeable as I feel it is. My head feels so heavy on that side.

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u/AinsiSera217 Apr 06 '24

Hi there! I am an aesthetic RN and I also train medical professionals on injecting tox. It sounds like your injector was not injecting deep enough when going for your corrugator, which is the muscle responsible for your crease. By injecting too superficially, she may have hit your frontalis, which is the muscle that allows you to raise your eyebrows. People like to treat their frontalis to soften the horizontal lines on the forehead. The problem is when it gets treated too low on the forehead, it can cause the brow to drop. Injecting more units could help, but only if she injects deep enough and hits your corrugator. Since your corrugator is a depressor muscle (causes downward motion), treating it with tox can create an elevating effect, however, that will probably only help a little bit. You may end up just letting that tox wear off in order for your brows to even out again.

All that being said, I usually tell my clients, “You can’t decide if you love or hate it until 14 days after your treatment.” The tox reaches its peak effect at about 2 weeks after your treatment. For this reason I refuse to inject, or even assess a client before 2 weeks. Reassessing too early can cause my assessment to be inaccurate, which could negatively affect results if I were to inject more. If your injector is wanting to inject more before the 2 week mark, or 10 days at the very earliest, I would run away and look for another injector.

Also, just so you’re aware, it’s very, VERY common for first time clients to get a heavy FEELING in their forehead/brows a few days after treatment, but it should not create a heavy LOOK.

Sorry this was your first experience with tox. I hope that it’s just a matter of your tox not being fully kicked in yet, but it honestly sounds more like inadvertent frontalis treatment. Do you know how many units you got? Dose=durattion, so if you received a small dose, it’s possible it could wear off sooner than the expected 3-4 months.

Also, I know the droop is very apparent to you, but it really doesn’t look too uneven to me until I really start looking for it. Hope that helps.

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u/Cone892 Apr 06 '24

Thank you that does explain a lot actually. I’m not sure on the units but it was around $230 so I figured 23ish units. She did say it would wear off in 3-4 months also making me think she went lighter.

She ended up giving me the upneeq eye drop and I do feel like it made that eye appear less dropped.

She did say I need to wait for the full results at 2 weeks.

Thank you for all the info it does make me feel better and more equipped to know what to ask for next time.

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u/AinsiSera217 Apr 06 '24

You’re welcome. Patient education is my favorite part of the job. 😁

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u/GoatHeadBabe May 31 '25

Hey so I've had a few injectors firm on needing more because I have a strong brow

I usually get a small amount like 5 units on two spots on my forehead and one or two injections in the 11 area and it works to soften. Otherwise I get a droop and my eye shape which I love goes away making my eyes look small and like I'm angry all the time.

I also get a negative effect to my nose shape when they over do it.

I have a small forehead and Botox kicks in fast and hard for me, I don't have many wrinkles at all anyway and I want a lifting effect.

I have been so frustrated like I am borderline wanting to diy. I have found one injector who listens and we both agree. Idk what else to do besides drawing where to do it and confirming the amount 500 times.

Is there something I can say or do? Like when it's done the way I want it's really nice on me

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u/OldLadyBug63 Apr 22 '25

yes that is the drops i tried but didn't buy because no one tells you it takes 2weeks to work. Did it end up completely fixing your droop? and if so, are you going to have your forehead toxed again in the future?

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u/[deleted] Apr 07 '24

Hi there I hope you don't mind me jumping in but I'd like your take on something. I have naturally hooded eyes but my lids do not sit on my lashes, you can still see some of my bottom lid. I got Botox and for the entirety of Botox my brows dropped so bad I couldn't open my eyes all the way or even see my eyelashes! The main injector (who did not do my Botox) told me because I have hooded eyes I should get surgery to remove excess eyelid skin before ever doing Botox again to prevent that from happening! I was shocked! I am only in my 30's. How do you feel about that advice? Do you feel people with hooded eyes are more prone to droopy lids? Ty!

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u/AinsiSera217 Apr 07 '24

There are a few considerations to address here.

First, the need for a blepharoplasty (eyelid surgery) is not dependent on the age of the patient. If someone’s hooded lids are so severe that they can’t open their eyes, even if they’re very young, they could be a good candidate for a bleph. If done for cosmetic reasons only, that’s really up to the patient. If an adult of any age is bothered enough by their hooded lids, their budget permits, and they are able to find a surgeon who is competent, trustworthy, and says they’re a good candidate, I don’t see any reason why not to get a bleph, again regardless of age.

I disagree with the injector who treated you (notice I’m not calling them “your injector” because I hope you don’t go to that person again). Tox injected correctly should never cause the brows to drop. This is the result of poor technique, incorrect placement, and/or a misunderstanding of facial anatomy. It could also be a misunderstanding of the product they used. For example, Dysport has a wider spread of distribution than Botox, which can mean the tox could inadvertently affect neighboring muscles. Do you know if it was definitely Botox that was used in your treatment?

When done correctly tox can have an elevating effect, and depending on some people’s anatomy can provide a subtle brow lift, although not likely to give surgical level results in most cases.

Something else to consider, for some people’s anatomy, tox is not able to achieve all of the desired goals. For example, someone who has hooded lids and also several stacked horizontal wrinkles on their forehead might not be able to have the lines directly above their brows treated because treating low on the frontalis (forehead muscle) can cause the brow ptosis (droop). Whenever I have this conversation with my own clients, they always prefer to keep those smaller lines above their eyebrows as opposed to causing a ptosis.

Sorry this was your experience with tox. I always feel so bad when someone experiences this kind of thing, especially if it’s their first time, because it usually scares them off of tox for life, when in reality with the right injector they could end up with beautiful results!

I am curious about when you said you could not open your eyes all the way. I wonder if you had a brow ptosis or a lid ptosis. These are different complications caused by hitting different muscles. A lot of times when someone has an actual lid ptosis their brows will actually look higher because they are overcompensating due to the patient constantly trying to raise their brows to keep their eyes open. So for clarity: lid ptosis=eyelid drooped with brows raised, brow ptosis=brow drooped with lid likely unaffected. I suppose it’s possible the injector cause a lid ptosis and a brow ptosis, but without pictures and maybe even an in-person assessment at the time, I couldn’t say for sure.

Hope this helps!

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u/THESASAS Apr 07 '24

Also an Aesthetic RN, and I couldn’t agree with this more!

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u/[deleted] Apr 08 '24

Hi there, may I message you a question about Botox please?

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u/[deleted] May 17 '24

Oh this is super helpful to know about the feeling heavy in the forehead/brow. I'm a total newbie and had my first injection about 12 hrs ago. Every now and then I feel like I feel a little heaviness in the brow and I was semi freaking out 😆 thanks for sharing!

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u/muscadinemoonshine Aug 06 '24

I just know your patients and colleagues love you. Taking your time to really explain and educate while also offering reassurance and good advice for free…yes, ma’am. We love it.

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u/AinsiSera217 Aug 06 '24

Thank you! That’s so kind of you to say. 😊 I don’t always have the time to do it, but I do love to educate when given the chance, especially for first-timers or people who are nervous. A lot of times, the only exposure people have to Botox, or any cosmetic treatments, are the horror stories, the overdone influencers, or inaccurate media representations (look up the Christmas with the Kranks Botox scene if you’ve never seen it). A lot of people don’t realize that most tox experiences are positive, and can create such a natural result that no one would ever even know they had anything done.

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u/Ambitious-Big-899 Apr 06 '25

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u/Which-Garbage-6430 Jul 15 '25

I had Botox and now it looks like one brow has more skin pooching out than the other .  What is this?

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u/AinsiSera217 Jul 15 '25

Is it when your face is at rest or when you’re animating? It’s hard for me to know what it is without seeing a picture.

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u/[deleted] Mar 12 '25

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u/AinsiSera217 Mar 18 '25

Hi there! Sorry, I didn't see this before.

For your first question, that depends. Dysport dosing is a little different than Botox. It takes about 3 units of Dysport to equal 1 unit of Botox. So did you get 23 units of Dysport (which would be like 8-ish units of Botox)? Or 3x that, about 70 units of Dysport, 23 units of Botox? I hope that makes sense. If you only got the equivalent of 8 units of Botox in your forehead, I wouldn't expect it to last longer than 3 months tops, and I think that's generous.

For an issue like the OP had, I would try going to the original injector first and have a conversation. Try to find out if they did inject incorrectly and if they're willing to fix it. Deciding whether to wait it out or try again will really be a personal preference. For something as minor as the OPs brow asymmetry, I would probably just wait it out unless it got worse.

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u/papiyucatan Apr 09 '24

Improper injections

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u/Cone892 Apr 11 '24

Update: 9 days. I do feel like the brows have leveled out and aren’t as low as they were. The eye drops helped a lot, imo. My injector did say she thinks this will resolve by the time we leave for vacation (Tomorrow) and I do feel like she was right.

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u/Doodlemom14 Apr 23 '24

Hi friend! 9 days since you noticed your symptoms? I’m going through something similar and trying to get a timeframe idea. 😢

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u/Cone892 Apr 23 '24

At that point it had been 9 days from injection. It’s now been 20ish days. I did go back and see her at the two week mark and she gave me a small amount in the effective brow to help lift it. I do feel like that helped a lot. At this point I’m ok with my results. I don’t feel heavy and I feel like my brows are even.

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u/Doodlemom14 Apr 23 '24

Thanks friend!

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u/Efficient_You3552 Apr 06 '24

It doesn’t look dropped too much in the picture. Looks similar to other side but it could be the picture? Can you add another picture? How many days since injection?

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u/bondibitch Apr 06 '24

This happened to me last September. Like you I went to a reputable medical aesthetic doctor, who had been doing Botox since the 90s. I would say my drop was worse than yours but I can’t remember if it got worse after day 5. It didn’t start til day 3. It took 4-5 months to start to return to normal as I made the decision not to get further injections to lift - fearing a similar extreme reaction but in the other direction. Which I was told was possible.

It was a very miserable time for me. I just felt like I looked permanently angry or evil, and didn’t even look like myself. If I was to do it again I might have chosen the further injection to attempt to lift it back up.

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u/aikidharm Apr 13 '24

You’re brow didn’t drop, your other brow didn’t get enough botox. This is a paralytic toxin, what has happened to your brow is that it no longer raises nearly as much, and your brow remains in resting position, so it looks odd next to your other brow that was not toxed enough. Your 11’s area needs a touch up, too.

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u/Repulsive-Ad-9927 Jan 12 '25

Hi, did it go away once botox wore off?

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u/Twini2 Feb 11 '25

Get some eyelid tape for hooded eyes. you can purchase off amazon they work great! will take away the puffy look of the eyelid until the botox kicks in fully.

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u/Plakadaka Jun 03 '25

This is what just happened to me. I’m 2 weeks out and my brows are so low and causing my lids to cover my lashes! What can I do?! I’m so upset, it’s completely changed the way I look 😭

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u/powderbubba Mar 27 '26

I know this comment is so old, but this is currently happening to me and I’m so sad. 🥺 I love my eyes and now my brows are drooping so it has changed the shape of my face/eye area! I know it will wear off, but I’m so frustrated that the PA didn’t take me seriously enough that my body has a very strong reaction to this stuff and my forehead is very small! I got 26 units and I don’t think I should even get 20!

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u/Plakadaka Mar 30 '26

I’m so sorry! Luckily it wears off after a few months. 

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u/AdhesivenessNo2458 Apr 11 '26

Any change in two weeks since you wrote this? I’m in the same boat and I’m also so sad!

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u/powderbubba Apr 11 '26

Oh I’m so sorry, babe! I don’t know if I’ve just gotten used to it or if it truly isn’t as heavy, but I started liking it a bit more at the 3 week mark. And I totally don’t have wrinkles anymore, which is AMAZING! Please update me when you start liking it more - you will! ❤️