Who likes shots? Certainly not me, and not my patients.
Botox/ Dysport/ Juvederm/ Restylane, and other injectables, do hurt when I inject them. However, I use special techniques to reduce the pain, including….
- very strong numbing cream, typically 7-8 times stronger than what most doctors use
- distraction techniques, where your body is physically distracted from the actual injection, so you feel less pain
- immediate icing before and after the injection, so that your body perceives less pain
- a relatively efficient and expedient injection, so that it doesn’t last forever
- MIXING THE INJECTABLE WITH NUMBING MEDICINE
Out of all these techniques, mixing the injectable with numbing medicine is probably the least effective. You want to numb the area BEFORE the injection, NOT DURING the injection. The numbing medicine mixed in with the injectable doesn’t start to work until AFTER the injection has occurred.
Since I give numbing medicine BEFORE the injection, the numbing medicine still work during as well as after the injectable is given. So, even though there are several injectables pre-mixed with numbing medicine, in my opinion, it’s not worth the bother or the additional cost involved.
So, with the money you save, get an additional syringe of Juvederm, or go to a nice lunch or dinner.
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