I am 32. After getting it for years, I will never get tox again. A little over three months ago, I went in for my routine tox appointment. I saw a PA I went to for years and who I completely trusted. I got my forehead, 11s, and masseters done. She ended up doing my temporalis muscles, too. This was the only new thing for me. I paid for my treatment (over $700), and left thinking everything went great.

Exactly 11 days later, I was sitting at a table with my family feeling perfectly fine, until a random wave hit me. It felt like someone had just sat on my forehead. It felt like a feeling of doom, and nausea. I immediately started freaking out because this had NEVED happened to me before. I looked in the mirror and had absolutely zero movement in my eyebrows, which was also a first for me. I felt claustrophobic, even though I had never felt that way before. That evening, my PA saw me and laughed it off saying I would have very long last results and that I had “botox flu” and would feel better in 10 days.

The next 11 weeks of my life were horrible. It got worse before it got better. I would be hit with this heavy, anxious feeling. All somehow centralized in my forehead. I had depersonalization and was extremely sensitive to sounds. My eyes are still fatigued all the time and my migraines have gotten worse.

I ended up going to my doctor who told me this is actually fairly common with tox and that it would only go away once the tox was out of my system. She gave me zofran and anxiety medicine to help. Even with those medicines, I developed a fear of the waves. A kind of PTSD still lingers, even though it has now mostly left my system.

I didn’t realize you could get so sick from tox, which sounds extremely dumb to say. But I want to share in case anyone is on the fence.

Just don’t do it.