- No rubbing or massaging of the injected area for 4 hours after treatment, including facials.
- No strenuous exercise for 24 hours after treatment.
- Keep upright for 4 hours — no lying on your front.
- Avoid headwear that is tightly fitted across the forehead.
- Reduce excessive alcohol consumption or medically necessary blood-thinning medication before the treatment to prevent bruising.
Patients can resume normal daily activities immediately following treatment.
After 4 hours you may perform light exercise such as:
- Walking
- Jogging
- Upright yoga (avoid any positions that leave you lying flat or upside down)
- Gardening
Wait 24 hours before attempting any strenuous exercise after Botox, including:
- Weight training
- Cross-training
- Long-distance running
- Yoga (positions where the body is inverted)
In most cases, there will be no side effects to treatment of BOTOX®. However, because everybody’s physiology is different, people can be affected in different ways. A small minority of people reported the following side effects.
- Bruising — Minor bruising may occur.
- Bumps — A few minutes after treatment small bumps may be visible on the skin. These will disappear very quickly.
- Headache — True allergies to neuromodulators are exceedingly rare.
Temporary headache is the most commonly reported symptom following treatment, though the numbers of patients who report headaches is very small compared with the number of treatments performed. Any headache can be treated with usual painkillers like Tylenol or Advil
Once the treatment wears off, your muscles will function as they did before the injectables. This means that the wrinkles you smoothed or reduced will slowly begin to appear again. You will simply witness old wrinkles reappearing, and no new wrinkles should emerge.
Yes. Your face will not feel overly sore or tender. Treatment will not prevent you from washing or continuing with your normal skincare regimen or applying makeup. However, you are advised to avoid rubbing or massaging your face for up to 4 hours after your treatment and it is recommended that you do not apply too much pressure during these activities in order to ensure that the injectable treatment does not disperse from the treated area.
Yes. It does not ‘build up’ or accumulate in your system and it is recommended to scheduled treatments every 12-16 weeks. Once the effects have worn off it is safe for you to top up treatments in the same area. It is also perfectly safe to have multiple treatments in different areas at the same time.
People easily get these two types of injectables confused all the time, but here’s an easy way to distinguish between the two: ANti wrinkle treatments reduce the activity of muscles in the face that cause wrinkles.
Facial fillers, however, fill the trouble areas with a gel made up of hyaluronic acid, which helps to plump and lift the skin to replace volume loss.
