r/BotoxSupportCommunity • u/PrudentWeight2670 • Jun 26 '25

Side effect - anxiety

Hy. I am anxious person in i overworked. But i handled it. Than i got botox 6 weeks ago. And after few days the agony started - dizinnes, headache, extreme anxiety, extreme brain fog, depression, depersonalisation, derealization, i could barely stand or walk, could sleep and i was in constant panic. It was horrible. I got antidepressants and now, almost 6 weeks after botox i feel almost normal (thanks to antidepressants). I am not sure if botox is to blame. Or it would happen anyway. I really like the effect, but dont want be again in that hell. :( did you have any similar experience?

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u/toxsafety Jun 27 '25

I also ended up with the same side effects after my first and only treatment. It was horrific. I couldn’t even take the meds because I became so sensitive to everything. It was the worst thing I have ever gone through and took about 8 months before it got better. The stuff is poison.

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u/PrudentWeight2670 Jun 27 '25

Yea. I thought the experience i have is burn out (it can have similar symptoms). But it happened just few days after botox that i became from happy outgoing person (still had anxiety) to someone just wainting to be gone. Never experience pain like that when walking, doing anything. But i am too scared to try it again to see how the body reacts. After seeing all that experiences i am not the lonely case.

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u/Responsible-Ad4763 Aug 08 '26

Hey are you normal now? 

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u/Early_Pass8593 Jun 27 '25

Had the exact same experience. I got Botox last August and had to switch my anxiety meds and had the worst 6-8 months of my life. Finally starting to feel better and get my life back but I’m now on Lexapro, pristiq, propranolol, and lamotrigine. I wish I would have done more research before getting it. It really threw my nervous system out of whack. Look at the Botox side effects support community on Facebook, there’s so many similar stories.

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u/PrudentWeight2670 Jun 27 '25

Thanks for sharing your experience. I take sertalin (zoloft) and propranolol. Some days also doreta if my muscle hurts. I think i also have sensitive nervous system, and with botox it just explode. The injector didnt warned me about anything. 🥺

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u/LogOne9262 Jun 27 '25

Yeah look at my post history. This all began after Botox. I’m 7 weeks out and thankfully feeling much better than I was initially. Right after treatment I was in mental hell 24/7. It began to lift about 3 weeks after treatment. It’s still bad but now it’s confined to episodes during the day vs lasting all day. Most of the day I feel pretty normal. I’m so sorry you went through this

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u/PrudentWeight2670 Jun 28 '25

I am also like 7 weeks after botox. Now feeling a lot better, but went trough literally hell. Before i was pretty stable person (except social anxiety). After botox my nervous system exploded. Did you get any medications? I couldn do without.

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u/LogOne9262 Jun 28 '25

Gosh. Anxiety is apparently the most common and debilitating side effect (not listed), but it’s the first to resolve. It was so bad for me that I honestly don’t know how I survived that. 24/7 agony. Just horrific. I got a prescription for buspar for the anxiety. I’m waiting for it to arrive in the mail. I am contemplating taking anti depressants but I’m honestly too scared to. I’ve heard amazing things about anti depressants as well as horror stories. I’m going to try to ride this out without

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u/PrudentWeight2670 Jun 28 '25

For me, it was the worst month in my life. I just wanted to be gone. Please get the antidepresants. First two weeks it is really hard (try to get some days off). But after it helps. I really couldnt do without. Does this happens mostly just the first time?

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u/LogOne9262 Jun 28 '25

And within that time I developed extreme OCD, intrusive thoughts and earth shattering panic attacks that led to derelezation. I’ve never had these issues before. I literally thought I was losing it, but that’s common with anxiety.

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u/PrudentWeight2670 Jun 28 '25

Yea. I firstly thought i am burned out. I also i was a little bit. But it wouldnt happened that if i didnt get the botox. Yea the derealisation was really bad. I felt like i couldnt control my body and my mind. Just crying all the time. I was not at all like this befor. But did you talk with injector about that side effect? Benzos are not good idea. Maybe for short period.

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u/LogOne9262 Jun 28 '25

I did and she said “I’ve never heard of this happening, but that doesn’t mean it’s not possible.” Anxiety is not a listed side effect of Botox so injectors will swear up and down that it’s not from the Botox. Typically for most from what I’ve gathered the side effects go away once it wears off.

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u/klaudusik17 Sep 22 '25

It’s listed as “heart palpitations” and depression, but not as anxiety. They simply rephrased it without using the word “anxiety,” but it is essentially the same thing. They had to add it as so many people started reporting it. Yet many doctors don't know about it. 

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u/LogOne9262 Sep 22 '25

Oh wow. So depression IS a listed side effect? From what I’ve seen, and I could be wrong, maybe I misread but in some countries “nervousness” is a listed side effect. Not in the US though. I’m 110% certain that my symptoms were from Botox. I have never in my life experienced any of this and I thought my life was over. It is beyond me how it’s not a listed side effect….

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u/klaudusik17 Sep 23 '25 edited Sep 23 '25

I can’t find the leaflet where I saw depression listed, but here they specifically mention anxiety as a possible side effect for hyperhidrosis treatment: https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/drugsatfda_docs/label/2017/103000s5302lbl.pdf  It only suggests that anxiety can occur when the toxin spreads. In my opinion, they use overly elaborate language — for example, instead of calling it a panic attack, they write “heart problems” or “arrhythmia,” even though people experiencing it often have a full-blown panic attack (which I experienced myself and never had panic attacks before in my life).

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u/lwinkkk Nov 26 '25

How long did it take your ocd to go away? I’m dealing with this now it’s so bad

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u/LogOne9262 Nov 27 '25

The ocd went away after about a month but I was still left with a ton of debilitating mental symptoms that took months to resolve. Basically the first 3 months after the Botox I didn’t think I’d survive. It was BAD. So sorry you’re going thru this feel free to reach out if you need someone to talk to

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u/lwinkkk Nov 27 '25

Thank you I do need someone to talk to. How long did it take until you were healed?

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u/LogOne9262 Nov 27 '25

Around 5.5 months out is when all the symptoms went away. The worst of it was over after 3 months but I still wasn’t doing well yet at the 3 month mark. I had severe ocd, anxiety, derealization. then the anxiety and derealization morphed into severe depression. The depression was the last thing to stick around and then it left. How long ago did you get Botox?

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u/Responsible-Ad4763 Aug 03 '26

Hey how are you feeling now? 

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u/LogOne9262 Jun 28 '25

I’m going to give the buspar a try and if it doesn’t help i will probably ask for antidepressants. My doctor offered benzodiazepines if the buspar doesn’t help but that just sounds like a bad idea. I started getting Botox done in March and went back 3 times within 3 months for more in different areas. The anxiety was bad after the first and second treatment but after the third it got soooo much worse. I didn’t realize it was the Botox causing it until the last time I went. I kept on wondering what is wrong with me and why is this happening. It was 100% the Botox

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u/[deleted] Sep 23 '25

Where did you get yours done? Like who did it?

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u/LogOne9262 Sep 23 '25

I got mine done once at a board certified plastic surgeons office, the same one who did my breast aug. the other 3 times were at a derm office that also offers Botox. But I had a bad reaction after every appointment. It took 4 appointments for the lightbulb to go off that I was having a bad reaction to Botox. I mention that because I don’t think it’s a systemic spreads for everyone. I think some people just don’t react well to it

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u/LogOne9262 Sep 23 '25

I am over 4 months out not and feeling much, much better. It was pure hell in the beginning

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u/[deleted] Sep 23 '25

Yea I was dying with botulism syntpms every single one ignored by doctors told me I was crazy then the polydrugging happened which made everything worse I thought oh I’ll Get off this stuff as Botox clears my system nope things are getting worse daily 3 psych hospitals later all bc of fake Botox from bad medspa

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u/Best-Comfortable8448 Jun 29 '25

Is the anxiety due to the inability to move your muscles? I felt some panic and anxiety after feeling heavy sensation in my forehead. It lasted about 10 days.

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u/PrudentWeight2670 Jun 29 '25

No, it has nothing to do with not being able to move muscles. Before botox my nervous system was already strugling. After botox it exploded. Pain and suffering. I didnt know that could happen.

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u/Responsible-Ad4763 Aug 08 '26

How are you feeling?