What is Botox resistance? Botox resistance is

when a patient's body builds up an immunity against the botulinum

toxin or it metabolizes the solution preventing any

type of long-term results becomes less effective. The

reason so many people are seeing Botox resistance is because

I had a client come in today and she was so upset because

she has been having Botox every three months since she was 25 and

now at 40 the Botox is no longer working. Now,

I don't know about you, but I'm not that willing to inject a toxin into

me, are you? So the only advice I could give her is to... Welcome

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I had a client come in today and she was so upset because she

has been having Botox every three months since she

was 25. And now at 40, the

Botox is no longer working. Botox resistance

is a thing and not to be ignored. So I thought, okay, well,

obviously I know this, but two things stood out

for me. Why doesn't the client know, and why

were they never told this? So I went online and

I googled, what is Botox resistance? Botox resistance

is when a patient's body builds up an immunity against the

botulinum toxin, or it metabolizes the solution, preventing

any type of long-term results, becomes less effective. Okay,

now I have a couple of problems with this. Firstly, it's suggesting that

this is rare. And I know for a fact in my little clinic in

New Farm, Brisbane, I'm seeing more and more people turning up

to me saying, I need help. Botox is not helping anymore

and I don't know what to do. And the second issue I have with this is

that Google is not telling the whole story. Botox is

a botulent, which means it is a toxin that is injected into

the facial muscle to freeze the muscle to then prevent

the expression line in that area to form a

crease or wrinkle. The problem with this is that it

lasts about three to six months and patients are

being encouraged to reinject after three months. Now,

I don't know about you, but I'm not that willing to inject a toxin into

me. Are you? The other thing I'm not getting with

this whole thing is why nobody or very few

people are openly talking about it. So the only advice

I could give her is to get a thorough skin evaluation so

that we could determine what is going on with her overall health and

how that is impacting on her skin. Then we could look at

her skincare routine, fix any gaps that may be

there and put her on the correct pathway to

achieving the results that she's after. You

see, she may have had the motivation, but in order to

get her the best results, I will need to

determine her level of commitment to achieve her goal. Once

we establish her level of commitment and budget of course, then

we can work out a skin plan over a series of months as the skin

needs time to change. Nothing can happen in

one treatment alone. And this is how we can get results for

this client. So the reason so many people are seeing Botox

resistance is because they've just been injected too

many times. From the age of 25 to the age of

40, that's a number of years to be injecting the same

solution into the muscles every three months. The

muscle will eventually just say, nope, I've had enough,

stop. And this is when the body is

telling you that this substance is no longer, it's no

longer ready to accept this substance and now you need to

look for something else. The main thing that this client needs

to be concerned about is the quality of her skin. What

this Botox has done over time to the volume in

her skin and also to the laxity in her skin. She

needs to now look at building her collagen production in

the skin and making the skin thicker

and stronger because she's actually affected

the skin in such a way that it's reduce the strength

of the skin. So the best way to look at that is to look

at her health, her overall health, build her skin cells from within

by taking supplements and also making sure that

any topical products that she's using are

going to build the strength of her skin, like a vitamin A,

a vitamin C, and also making sure that any

antioxidants or actives that's going into her skin is actually

working with her skin. She may even need to look at her gut

health because usually by the age of 40, our

gut health and our hormones impact on our skin. So that's

probably happening in the background as well as the fact that

the Botox is no longer working. So I would recommend a series

of treatments that focus on collagen production and

really start to ramp that up. I would go straight in

with a Haifu followed by the next treatment as

an SQT resurfacing treatment that's also gonna build collagen

and elastin in the skin. It's gonna improve the quality of the skin

and just make the skin a lot thicker. And then we would just nurture

the skin with her home care. and she can come in for regular sessions

of facial so we can really monitor how the skin is faring as

it starts to strengthen over time. So has this ever happened

to you? Have you started to see a resistance to

Botox injections that you've been having regularly? Has your injector

ever talked to you about Botox resistance? Did you know this

was a thing? Comment below, I'd like to hear your thoughts on

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