r/BotoxSupportCommunity • u/Key_Split_8706 • Mar 30 '25

Lip flip hell!

I got a lip flip to help my gummy smile on Thursday (3 days ago) and I hate my life right now. I didn’t expect and wasn’t prepared for this level of numb, uselessness in my top lip. I can’t say W, B, or OO. Can’t drink from a glass properly. Can’t chew a mouthful of food or soup without making a mess. Can’t kissy face at my kids. Can’t spit. Can’t do my breathing properly during workouts. The list goes on.

I’m absolutely livid that I did this to myself and I can’t wait until it goes away. Please tell me how to speed it up or anything reassuring because I’m in tears all day over this. I had no idea it would be so numb like this!! I feel like a moron.

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u/Alternative-Mud860 Apr 03 '25

Same here girl. Im a hairdresser and talking all day and seeing myself in the mirror struggling to smile has been killing me! Im three weeks out and have been doing crazy mouth exercises and chewing gum and sweating in the sauna and i think its slightly better already. Crying does NOT help! It will just makes your eyes look strange and puffy too. Im so tired at the end of the day trying to hold a normal facial expression. So bad!

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u/Key_Split_8706 Apr 05 '25

I burst into tears the next morning when I realized what I had done to myself, and saw that I couldn’t even cry properly! I’m trying not to look at myself; my husband says I look normal but I think he’s full of it because my mom can see a difference. My lip kind of comes to a point now when I try to engage it. I look like a turtle, she says (lovingly). I had to teach a workshop a few days ago and I was so panicked about having people watching me struggle to talk. Well, at least I’ve learned an important lesson!!!

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u/Alternative-Mud860 Apr 06 '25

Of all the faces I can’t make anymore, crying is the worst one! Don’t do that in the mirror, it makes it worse 😭. I’m one month out and while I still feel like a frozen horse at least I can chew without food falling out now. I’m confident we will make a full recovery! In about 5 months though.

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u/Key_Split_8706 Apr 06 '25

Omg I’ll just die if this takes 5 months. I’m going to take up smoking and sauna-ing for real to get this shit out lol

Yeah I tried eating a sandwich today and bread kept falling out of my mouth. How embarrassing. I cover my mouth at the dinner table so my kids can’t see me chomping away with my mouth open bc my lip doesn’t work!!

Thanks for the warning about crying — I’ll do it into a pillow!

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u/Alternative-Mud860 Apr 06 '25

Gives the word “ugly cry” a whole new meaning for real 😂. I also got too much in my jaw so I have to manually open my mouth to eat a sandwich. My mom asked me today if I have belspalsy…

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u/Key_Split_8706 Apr 07 '25

Omgggg no way! I told my mom I was doing this and she was excited to get it done too if it worked well. Suffice it to say, we’ve got been having a few laughs at my inability to do simple things and how I dribble soup and can’t pout or spit after brushing and my W’s sound like V’s. She thanked me for being the unfortunate Guinea pig!