Botox gave me gumball-sized lumps all over my forehead that won't go away... trends now
A Florida woman has shocked TikTok users with an unsightly side effect she suffered after undergoing popular anti-wrinkle injections.
Holly Brooke, a medical technician, developed large, gumball-sized bulges on her forehead in the days after receiving shots of Dysport - an antiaging compound with the same ingredients as Botox, said to have longer-lasting effects.
Curiously, the symptoms appeared eight years into her regular treatments, making them particularly disconcerting.
'I need to know why, all of a sudden, I'm getting allergic reactions to my Dysport,' Ms Brooke said in a TikTok last month.
She said that all of her injection sites 'swelled up in little circles,' which became red and itchy. It would take several days for the bumps to finally go away, but they would later swell up.
After about eight years of treatments of Botox alternative Dysport, Holly Brooke shared on TikTok that she started getting lumps on her forehead. 'Nobody knows what it did it, and because I was so inflamed, none of the Dysport even worked,' she said. 'I still had all my wrinkles'
Experts estimate that about 3.6 million Americans get Botox every year
'Nobody knows what it did it, and because I was so inflamed, none of the Dysport even worked,' Ms Brooke said. 'I still had all my wrinkles.'
Brooke's story comes as the CDC investigates botched Botox shots that have hospitalized women in several states.
These patients suffered the wrath of counterfeit Botox - which involves an extremely high dose or the addition of other, harmful substances - causing toxic infections like botulism.
Botulism is a rare infection that causes a toxin to
