Comments on: Priscilla Presley’s Face Injected With Industrial-Grade Silicone: What So Easily Happens When a Medical Procedure Becomes Trendy http://beautyandthebreast.org/2008/03/25/priscilla-presley%e2%80%99s-face-injected-with-industrial-grade-silicone-what-so-easily-happens-when-a-medical-procedure-becomes-trendy/251 Tue, 06 Jan 2009 20:38:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: suzannabanana23 http://beautyandthebreast.org/2008/03/25/priscilla-presley%e2%80%99s-face-injected-with-industrial-grade-silicone-what-so-easily-happens-when-a-medical-procedure-becomes-trendy/251#comment-1290 suzannabanana23 Tue, 25 Mar 2008 16:44:29 +0000 http://beautyandthebreast.org/2008/03/25/priscilla-presley%e2%80%99s-face-injected-with-industrial-grade-silicone-what-so-easily-happens-when-a-medical-procedure-becomes-trendy/251#comment-1290 This piece just shows how dangerous "normalized" activities become. Despite all my years of experience with breast implants I was stupid enough to get Botox. Everyone was getting it -- what could the problems possibly be? Guess what? I've been allergic to wine ever since. Of course, my dermatologist says they aren't related, but my allergist says he's seen this before. Not a lot -- but enough for him to ask any over-40-something woman who develops an unexplained wine allergy if she's had Botox. Apparently Botox is like an overdose of histamines, wine has a lot of histamines, if you have a latent allergy to histamines and get a massive dose, it can trigger a full-blown allergy. (My father-in-law thinks this is the funniest story ever. He says "Wow -- you're getting old AND you can't drink wine -- life must hardly be worth living.") At least I wasn't at a "Botox Party" -- I might have been getting industrial grade silicone! Horrifying! And poor Priscilla! This piece just shows how dangerous “normalized” activities become. Despite all my years of experience with breast implants I was stupid enough to get Botox. Everyone was getting it — what could the problems possibly be? Guess what? I’ve been allergic to wine ever since. Of course, my dermatologist says they aren’t related, but my allergist says he’s seen this before. Not a lot — but enough for him to ask any over-40-something woman who develops an unexplained wine allergy if she’s had Botox. Apparently Botox is like an overdose of histamines, wine has a lot of histamines, if you have a latent allergy to histamines and get a massive dose, it can trigger a full-blown allergy. (My father-in-law thinks this is the funniest story ever. He says “Wow — you’re getting old AND you can’t drink wine — life must hardly be worth living.”)

At least I wasn’t at a “Botox Party” — I might have been getting industrial grade silicone! Horrifying! And poor Priscilla!

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