Are Botox treatments painful?

Get the consent form for your Botox treatment and read it first.

Ask the injector what you will feel

Put the pain question to the provider who will inject you. Ask what you should feel during the injection and over the following days. Note the answer before you leave the room.

Find the discomfort lines on the form

Read the consent form for three things: what it says about discomfort, which side effects it lists, and when it tells you to call.

Then ask these at the visit:

1. Which product goes in? Ask to see the box or the label.
2. Which numbing or comfort options does the practice offer?
3. What does the form say you should feel during the treatment and afterward?
4. Whom do you phone if something feels wrong once you are home?

Prepare your pain questions at home

• Read the form at your own table, not at the front desk.
• List what worries you about pain and bring the list.
• Ask the provider to explain any sentence you cannot restate.

Mark the discomfort lines in four outside pages

Open two pages from the plastic surgery society, botulinum toxin recovery and its botulinum toxin page. Read Botox: what it is, results, and side effects from a hospital system. Then read the Penn Medicine page on botulinum toxin (Botox) injections from an academic medical center. Underline every line about discomfort and take those lines to your provider.