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Nine months have passed and I'm still weak, have blurred vision and can't breathe properly. My respiratory muscles still don't function properly after all this time and I honestly don't expect to ever get back to normal at this point. It baffles me how anyone can deny how dangerous botox truly is.
Botulinum neurotoxin A is one of the most potent neurotoxins known to man, with long lasting serious effects on neuromuscular junctions. There's no drug or treatment that can reverse its effects and any degree of recovery is mainly due to compensation mechanisms such as upregulation of postsynaptic nACh receptors, decreased acetylcholinesterase levels and axonal sprouting. The toxin however remains mostly unaffected inside affected nerve terminals indefinitely and is hardly metabolized because deubiquitinating enzymes prevent its degradation through the ubiquitin-proteasome pathway. It does not suddenly become inactive after a few months as you're made to believe. Unless we found a way to inhibit VCIP135 and USP9X, there's nothing you can do to get it out of the body. You can accelerate the sprouting process with IGF-1, IGF-2 and CNTF, use AChE inhibitors and potassium channel blockers to relieve symptoms temporarily but you can't do anything to actively get botox out of your nervous system. The only available "antidotes" for botulism - heptavalent botulism antitoxin and trivalent botulinum antitoxin - can only neutralize botulinum toxin still circulating in the bloodstream and are useless against toxin that has reached the nerve endings.
Botulism treatment mainly consists of supportive care, antibiotics (if caused by bacterial infection, not injections) and antitoxin therapy. Patients often require mechanical ventilation and hospitalization for several months. Recovery of type A botulism is extremely slow and not always complete. On top of that, botulism is often misdiagnosed and botulism caused by cosmetic botox injections is disregarded 99% of the time. You're more likely to hit the lottery jackpot than to be correctly diagnosed. Cosmetic botulism symptoms are often blamed on anxiety or depression. Blood tests can't detect botulism. Good luck trying to convince any doctor to examine you for iatrogenic botulism if you experience muscle weakness, constipation, shortness of breath, blurred vision, dry mouth and trouble swallowing after your quarterly anti-wrinkle treatment. They always deny that cosmetic botox injections can cause serious illness. There may be only a handful of doctors worldwide who know and admit that botulinum toxin therapy isn't safe and can in fact cause botulism.
Open your eyes already and learn from my mistakes. Never get botox. Also, putting fillers, finasteride & Co. and botox in the same box is like comparing a squirt gun from Walmart to a super heavy tank
"M-muh d-d-doctor says it's perfectly safe and and I trust him with my life because he cares about m-m-my well-being"
Botulinum neurotoxin A is one of the most potent neurotoxins known to man, with long lasting serious effects on neuromuscular junctions. There's no drug or treatment that can reverse its effects and any degree of recovery is mainly due to compensation mechanisms such as upregulation of postsynaptic nACh receptors, decreased acetylcholinesterase levels and axonal sprouting. The toxin however remains mostly unaffected inside affected nerve terminals indefinitely and is hardly metabolized because deubiquitinating enzymes prevent its degradation through the ubiquitin-proteasome pathway. It does not suddenly become inactive after a few months as you're made to believe. Unless we found a way to inhibit VCIP135 and USP9X, there's nothing you can do to get it out of the body. You can accelerate the sprouting process with IGF-1, IGF-2 and CNTF, use AChE inhibitors and potassium channel blockers to relieve symptoms temporarily but you can't do anything to actively get botox out of your nervous system. The only available "antidotes" for botulism - heptavalent botulism antitoxin and trivalent botulinum antitoxin - can only neutralize botulinum toxin still circulating in the bloodstream and are useless against toxin that has reached the nerve endings.
Botulism treatment mainly consists of supportive care, antibiotics (if caused by bacterial infection, not injections) and antitoxin therapy. Patients often require mechanical ventilation and hospitalization for several months. Recovery of type A botulism is extremely slow and not always complete. On top of that, botulism is often misdiagnosed and botulism caused by cosmetic botox injections is disregarded 99% of the time. You're more likely to hit the lottery jackpot than to be correctly diagnosed. Cosmetic botulism symptoms are often blamed on anxiety or depression. Blood tests can't detect botulism. Good luck trying to convince any doctor to examine you for iatrogenic botulism if you experience muscle weakness, constipation, shortness of breath, blurred vision, dry mouth and trouble swallowing after your quarterly anti-wrinkle treatment. They always deny that cosmetic botox injections can cause serious illness. There may be only a handful of doctors worldwide who know and admit that botulinum toxin therapy isn't safe and can in fact cause botulism.
Open your eyes already and learn from my mistakes. Never get botox. Also, putting fillers, finasteride & Co. and botox in the same box is like comparing a squirt gun from Walmart to a super heavy tank
"M-muh d-d-doctor says it's perfectly safe and and I trust him with my life because he cares about m-m-my well-being"
