A woman who has been receiving Botox injections for the past 20 years to prevent wrinkles and aging has revealed her skin after stopping the procedure. Women suffer from ‘muscular dystrophy,’ in which the muscles in her forehead disappear, she said.
According to the New York Post on the 13th (local time), Blenda Bley, who worked as a dermatology nurse in California for 20 years, released her real face after stopping Botox injections on the video platform TikTok. Botox injections are used to remove wrinkles on the forehead and around the eyes, and are popular because they can be removed only with injections without a knife being applied to the face.
In the video, Bley points to his forehead and says, “Aren’t you curious what a person who has been receiving Botox for 20 years would look like if he suddenly didn’t get the injection?” He said, “I stopped using Botox last October, but there is still no muscle movement in my forehead.”
He added, “So now, I periodically exercise and rest to increase the muscles on my forehead. It seems that I am gradually getting wrinkles and muscles (on my forehead), but I am not 100% yet.”
It is known that long-term Botox treatment can cause muscle atrophy in the skin, especially the forehead.
Muscular dystrophy is a phenomenon in which muscles are reduced and shrunk compared to the past. Experts have warned that forehead dystrophy can be caused by long-term Botox treatment.
Patricia Wexler, a New York City dermatologist in the United States, said, “Continuous use of Botox can cause muscle atrophy.”
A 2010 study at the University of Calgary in Canada found that animals injected with Botox experienced “muscle weakness,” even in areas that had not been injected with Botox.
However, there are experts who claim that “Botox is not related to muscular atrophy.”
In 2018, a paper by researchers at the Department of Clinical Neuroscience at Western University in Canada said that there was no correlation between Botox and muscle atrophy, and that more research was needed.
Source: Donga
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