The Truth About Botox Adverse Effects with Megan McCue

About this episode

Megan McCue shares her personal experience with Botox and the serious side effects she faced, advocating for informed consent and patient education.

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Unwritten Beauty Talks, Katarina Forster sits down with Megan McCue, a medical speech-language pathologist and author who bravely shares her personal experience with Botox and the serious side effects she faced. Megan opens up about developing iatrogenic botulism after receiving a small dose of Xeomin and how that experience led her to advocate for informed consent, transparency, and patient education around botulinum toxin injections. Together, Katarina an...

People in this episode

Host: Katarina Forster

Guest: Megan McCue

Topics covered

• Botox
• adverse effects
• patient education
• informed consent
• beauty treatments

Keywords

• Botox
• Xeomin
• iatrogenic botulism
• side effects
• patient advocacy

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Xeomin

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