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Eyelid twitching

Wed, 05/02/2007 - 14:09
My left eyelid has been twitching all day. It is driving me crazy!!!!! I am taking Topamax 25mg twice a day. Have had 2 tonic/clonic seizures. Posted more about my situation in the new to site section. Should I call my doc? Have never had eyelid twitching like this before????? Thanks Julie

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What is an Eyelid Twitch?

Submitted by eowc on Sat, 2009-10-10 - 06:52

What is an Eyelid Twitch?  ( http://silkwise.com/content/viewthread_thread,4243 )

 

It's actually called Blepharospasm which is a symptom of involuntary and uncontrollable
movements in the muscles around a person's eyes which in turn make them appear like
'blinking non-stop' to other people.



In certain cases, this may be caused by myasthenia (muscular weakness) in the eyes
organ as a result of stresses, overstraining of the eyes, lacks of sleeps, the serious lacks of
certain nutrients / minerals
to support the normal functionings / movements of your eyelid
muscles etc.



Next, in the case whereby no stress, any kinds of infections, overstraining of the eyes etc are
involved whilst the eyelids and the entire organs just look superficially normal and ok, and at the
same time, the eyelid-twitching / eye-blinking just get 'unexplainedly' from bad to worse
from time to time, such medical scenarios could actually be caused by other neuromuscular
disorders
which are much more complicated.



And in terms of such neuromuscular disorders, they may arise as a neurological / Tardive
Dyskinesia side effect of certain medications
, especially the powerful mind-altering
tranquilizers of antipsychotics / neuroleptics, particularly when such medications are
over-relied on to the point of sheer abuse
.



In such a connection, please consider the following excerpts : -



"Chlorpromazine side effects

Get emergency medical help if you have any of these signs of an allergic reaction: hives; difficulty
breathing; swelling of your face, lips, tongue, or throat. Stop taking chlorpromazine and call your
doctor at once if you have a serious side effect such as:


twitching or uncontrollable movements of your eyes, lips, tongue, face, arms, or
legs;"



which are quoted from the website :


http://www.drugs.com/mtm/chlorpromazine.html



Other Related Information :


http://www.bettervisionforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2

What is an Eyelid Twitch?  ( http://silkwise.com/content/viewthread_thread,4243 )

 

It's actually called Blepharospasm which is a symptom of involuntary and uncontrollable
movements in the muscles around a person's eyes which in turn make them appear like
'blinking non-stop' to other people.



In certain cases, this may be caused by myasthenia (muscular weakness) in the eyes
organ as a result of stresses, overstraining of the eyes, lacks of sleeps, the serious lacks of
certain nutrients / minerals
to support the normal functionings / movements of your eyelid
muscles etc.



Next, in the case whereby no stress, any kinds of infections, overstraining of the eyes etc are
involved whilst the eyelids and the entire organs just look superficially normal and ok, and at the
same time, the eyelid-twitching / eye-blinking just get 'unexplainedly' from bad to worse
from time to time, such medical scenarios could actually be caused by other neuromuscular
disorders
which are much more complicated.



And in terms of such neuromuscular disorders, they may arise as a neurological / Tardive
Dyskinesia side effect of certain medications
, especially the powerful mind-altering
tranquilizers of antipsychotics / neuroleptics, particularly when such medications are
over-relied on to the point of sheer abuse
.



In such a connection, please consider the following excerpts : -



"Chlorpromazine side effects

Get emergency medical help if you have any of these signs of an allergic reaction: hives; difficulty
breathing; swelling of your face, lips, tongue, or throat. Stop taking chlorpromazine and call your
doctor at once if you have a serious side effect such as:


twitching or uncontrollable movements of your eyes, lips, tongue, face, arms, or
legs;"



which are quoted from the website :


http://www.drugs.com/mtm/chlorpromazine.html



Other Related Information :


http://www.bettervisionforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2

The Suggested Self-administered Needel-free, Free-of-charge Acu

Submitted by Zelenka on Sat, 2010-08-21 - 14:55

Included below is a conversation excerpted from the other forum between me and the other person about expressing my deepest gratitude and thankfulness for putting in the trusts and confidences in my suggested self-administered, totally free-of-charge, painless, harmless and needle-free acupuncture method which is meant especially for the effective and full treatments of post-birth non-brain / neuron-damage & Tardive Dyskinesia / medication-induced rapid, purposeless, involuntary and uncontrollable eyelid twitching / eye blinking.

For Further detailed in-depth information and descriptions about this particular suggested self-administered, free-of-charge, needle-free, painless and harmless acupuncture method / technique as mentioned above, please refer to the prior posts made above.

In addition to the acclaimed and obvious therapeutical and curative efficacies indirectly implied and asserted by this particular person about the suggested self-administered, needle-free, free-of-charge, painless and harmless acupuncture method, this conversation is also about expressing my heartfelt thankfulness as a part-time social worker to this person for voluntarily taking the initiaves to serve, pursue and further the noble humanitarian causes of helping the poor and needy others by recommending such a totally needle-free, self-adminstered, painless, harmless and free-of-charge acupuncture method to them to get their similar visually-incapacitating disorders substantially and evidently mitigated and fully cured in the end.

Full Article :  http://www.curezone.com/forums/fm.asp?i=1673263#i

 

Included below is a conversation excerpted from the other forum between me and the other person about expressing my deepest gratitude and thankfulness for putting in the trusts and confidences in my suggested self-administered, totally free-of-charge, painless, harmless and needle-free acupuncture method which is meant especially for the effective and full treatments of post-birth non-brain / neuron-damage & Tardive Dyskinesia / medication-induced rapid, purposeless, involuntary and uncontrollable eyelid twitching / eye blinking.

For Further detailed in-depth information and descriptions about this particular suggested self-administered, free-of-charge, needle-free, painless and harmless acupuncture method / technique as mentioned above, please refer to the prior posts made above.

In addition to the acclaimed and obvious therapeutical and curative efficacies indirectly implied and asserted by this particular person about the suggested self-administered, needle-free, free-of-charge, painless and harmless acupuncture method, this conversation is also about expressing my heartfelt thankfulness as a part-time social worker to this person for voluntarily taking the initiaves to serve, pursue and further the noble humanitarian causes of helping the poor and needy others by recommending such a totally needle-free, self-adminstered, painless, harmless and free-of-charge acupuncture method to them to get their similar visually-incapacitating disorders substantially and evidently mitigated and fully cured in the end.

Full Article :  http://www.curezone.com/forums/fm.asp?i=1673263#i

 

Kindly Support These Charity and Humanitarian Causes

Submitted by eowc on Sat, 2011-10-15 - 01:10

Kindly Support These Charity and Humanitarian Causes / Totally Needle-free Acupuncture / Acupressure Cure For Blepharospasm / Chronic Eyelid Twitching / Eye Blinking



Included below is a totally needle-free, free-of-charge, simple, painless, harmless, self-administered acupuncture / acupressure cure / technique for Blepharospasm / chronic eyelid twitching / eye blinking.



In this regard, I hope that this suggested self-administered, totally needle-free, totally free-of-charge, painless, harmless, simple acupuncture / acupressure technique / method which involves hourly and daily consistent mild and persistent pressings of the "He Gu" acupoint located at the back of one's right palm [which is 1.5 cm (applicable to the average grown adults only) measured vertically from the point of intersection (that would appear visibly when the fingers are closed loosely together) between the thumb and the forefinger], (Kindly take note that this point is located at a much 'fleshy' instead of a much 'boney' area, with any long blunt-pointed objects such as a normal writing pen which is out-of-ink - to produce the necessary acupressure for the healings whilst not to get the particular mildly pressed acupoint dirtily inked (Please refer to the diagram attached below for that "He Gu" acupoint) meant for genuinely effective cure of Blepharospasm / chronic eyelid twitching / eye blinking disorder which in turn have totally cured countless of people troubled by chronic eyelid twitching / eye blinking problems for a number of years on an ongoing basis, especially for the chronic eyelid twitching / eye blinking normally caused by :


# Stress
# Tiredness
# Eyestrain
# Caffeine
# Alcohol
# Dry eyes
# Nutritional imbalances
# Allergies


Next, under such situations and causes of eyelid twitchings / eye blinkings as mentioned above, such annoying symptoms would usually come and go within a very short period of time and certainly the conditions would get better and better from time to time especially when certain related treatments are sought and administered to deal with the symptom.


However, under rare circumstances when the eye twitch symptom just get progressively and chronically and seriously unmitigated from bad to worse as well as seem to last permanently even when all sorts of related treatments are adminstered upon such illness to deal with it, such non-stop eye twitching symptom may then simply just manifest as one of the serious neuromuscular / neurological symptoms of :


# Tardive Dyskinesia (rapid involuntary uncontrollable eye blinking / eye twitching), which in most cases are caused by the neuromuscular / neurological side effects of certain powerful mind-altering medications and other neurological complications. Whilst the underlying mechanism of such a disease is such that the normal functionings of the neurotransmitters chemical dopamine which co-ordinates the miscellaneous human body movements in this case are disturbed, antagonized and disrupted in this case resulting in one's loss of control of human body movements, and in this case, one's eye / eyelids organ.


In such a connection, in terms of the landmark & prominent Tardive Dyskinesia symptom of abnormally rapid eyelid twitching / eye blinking as described and mentioned above, since the eyelids' organ-movements-related neurotransmitters chemicals - dopamine produced by the nerve cells / neurons are totally transparent while the eye nerves / brain cells remain undamaged, the MRI / CT-scannings would thus not be able to show and detect anything abnormal and unusual at all for their Blepharospasm / chronic eye blinking / eyelid twitching disorders, and then almost in all cases, their Blepharospasm / chronic eyelid twithcing / eye blinking disorders would then be labelled "accordingly" as "undiagnosable" / "unexplainable" by the related mainstream medical personnel, and then they are suggested to get surgery / perpetually continual Botox injections to deal with such chronic neuromuscular and visually-incapacitating disorders.


All in all, for the undiagnosed medical phenomenon and scenario described above, well, regardless of how advanced the mainstream medical sciences are nowadays, their are still lots of medical and pathological conditions that remain unexplained and are pending to be deeply examined and explored in the sense that anything that cannot be examined / observed / explained to date simply do not mean that they do not exist at all,


will be relevant and useful to the ones desperately needing an once-and-for-all cure and recovery for their Blepharospasm / chronic eyelid twitching / eye blinking problem and disorder.


Image of The "He Gu" AcuPoint Mentioned Above :






Related Information :


http://eyecareeyedoctorandvision.yuku.com/topic/885/New-Version---Self-administered-Acupuncture-Cure--Non-stop - A New Version For The Totally Needle-free, Self-administered, Simple, Painless, Harmless, Totally Free-of-Charge, Speedy & Meant For Once-and-for-all Recoveries Acupuncture / Acupressure Cure For Blepharospasm / Chronic Non-stop Persistent Eyelid twitching / Eye Blinking Mentioned Above & The Numerous Others' Unbiased Independent Third-parties' Testimonies About The Acclaimed Efficacies of The Acupuncture / Acupressure Cure For Blepharospasm / Chronic Non-stop Persistent Eyelid twitching / Eye Blinking

http://www.medicalacupuncture.org/aama_marf/journal/vol14_1/poster1.html - Medical Findings About The Effectiveness of Medical Acupuncture For Highly Substantial & Effective Cure of Blepharospasm / Chronic Eyelid twitching / Eye blinking

http://www.cleveland.com/forums/health/index.ssf?extlink?artid=997Tardive Dyskinesia and Medical Care for Tender-aged Children and Kids & Other Related Details

Lastly, I sincerely hope that the related articles which are posted, especially the ones elaborating the needle-free acupuncture / acupressure cure for chronic Blepharospasm / abnormally serious rapid incessant eyelid twitching / eye blinking disorders along with essentially their underlying not-widely-known and yet veracious and unvarnised pathological / medical causes, that are told purely for charity purposes and on humanitarian grounds will continue to get widely promoted & recommended by more and more kind and benevolent others so that more and more people suffering from the related eye disorders will be able to deal with their conditions accordingly and effectively towards the goals of full recoveries and getting back their normal life and promising futures.

Kindly Support These Charity and Humanitarian Causes / Totally Needle-free Acupuncture / Acupressure Cure For Blepharospasm / Chronic Eyelid Twitching / Eye Blinking



Included below is a totally needle-free, free-of-charge, simple, painless, harmless, self-administered acupuncture / acupressure cure / technique for Blepharospasm / chronic eyelid twitching / eye blinking.



In this regard, I hope that this suggested self-administered, totally needle-free, totally free-of-charge, painless, harmless, simple acupuncture / acupressure technique / method which involves hourly and daily consistent mild and persistent pressings of the "He Gu" acupoint located at the back of one's right palm [which is 1.5 cm (applicable to the average grown adults only) measured vertically from the point of intersection (that would appear visibly when the fingers are closed loosely together) between the thumb and the forefinger], (Kindly take note that this point is located at a much 'fleshy' instead of a much 'boney' area, with any long blunt-pointed objects such as a normal writing pen which is out-of-ink - to produce the necessary acupressure for the healings whilst not to get the particular mildly pressed acupoint dirtily inked (Please refer to the diagram attached below for that "He Gu" acupoint) meant for genuinely effective cure of Blepharospasm / chronic eyelid twitching / eye blinking disorder which in turn have totally cured countless of people troubled by chronic eyelid twitching / eye blinking problems for a number of years on an ongoing basis, especially for the chronic eyelid twitching / eye blinking normally caused by :


# Stress
# Tiredness
# Eyestrain
# Caffeine
# Alcohol
# Dry eyes
# Nutritional imbalances
# Allergies


Next, under such situations and causes of eyelid twitchings / eye blinkings as mentioned above, such annoying symptoms would usually come and go within a very short period of time and certainly the conditions would get better and better from time to time especially when certain related treatments are sought and administered to deal with the symptom.


However, under rare circumstances when the eye twitch symptom just get progressively and chronically and seriously unmitigated from bad to worse as well as seem to last permanently even when all sorts of related treatments are adminstered upon such illness to deal with it, such non-stop eye twitching symptom may then simply just manifest as one of the serious neuromuscular / neurological symptoms of :


# Tardive Dyskinesia (rapid involuntary uncontrollable eye blinking / eye twitching), which in most cases are caused by the neuromuscular / neurological side effects of certain powerful mind-altering medications and other neurological complications. Whilst the underlying mechanism of such a disease is such that the normal functionings of the neurotransmitters chemical dopamine which co-ordinates the miscellaneous human body movements in this case are disturbed, antagonized and disrupted in this case resulting in one's loss of control of human body movements, and in this case, one's eye / eyelids organ.


In such a connection, in terms of the landmark & prominent Tardive Dyskinesia symptom of abnormally rapid eyelid twitching / eye blinking as described and mentioned above, since the eyelids' organ-movements-related neurotransmitters chemicals - dopamine produced by the nerve cells / neurons are totally transparent while the eye nerves / brain cells remain undamaged, the MRI / CT-scannings would thus not be able to show and detect anything abnormal and unusual at all for their Blepharospasm / chronic eye blinking / eyelid twitching disorders, and then almost in all cases, their Blepharospasm / chronic eyelid twithcing / eye blinking disorders would then be labelled "accordingly" as "undiagnosable" / "unexplainable" by the related mainstream medical personnel, and then they are suggested to get surgery / perpetually continual Botox injections to deal with such chronic neuromuscular and visually-incapacitating disorders.


All in all, for the undiagnosed medical phenomenon and scenario described above, well, regardless of how advanced the mainstream medical sciences are nowadays, their are still lots of medical and pathological conditions that remain unexplained and are pending to be deeply examined and explored in the sense that anything that cannot be examined / observed / explained to date simply do not mean that they do not exist at all,


will be relevant and useful to the ones desperately needing an once-and-for-all cure and recovery for their Blepharospasm / chronic eyelid twitching / eye blinking problem and disorder.


Image of The "He Gu" AcuPoint Mentioned Above :






Related Information :


http://eyecareeyedoctorandvision.yuku.com/topic/885/New-Version---Self-administered-Acupuncture-Cure--Non-stop - A New Version For The Totally Needle-free, Self-administered, Simple, Painless, Harmless, Totally Free-of-Charge, Speedy & Meant For Once-and-for-all Recoveries Acupuncture / Acupressure Cure For Blepharospasm / Chronic Non-stop Persistent Eyelid twitching / Eye Blinking Mentioned Above & The Numerous Others' Unbiased Independent Third-parties' Testimonies About The Acclaimed Efficacies of The Acupuncture / Acupressure Cure For Blepharospasm / Chronic Non-stop Persistent Eyelid twitching / Eye Blinking

http://www.medicalacupuncture.org/aama_marf/journal/vol14_1/poster1.html - Medical Findings About The Effectiveness of Medical Acupuncture For Highly Substantial & Effective Cure of Blepharospasm / Chronic Eyelid twitching / Eye blinking

http://www.cleveland.com/forums/health/index.ssf?extlink?artid=997Tardive Dyskinesia and Medical Care for Tender-aged Children and Kids & Other Related Details

Lastly, I sincerely hope that the related articles which are posted, especially the ones elaborating the needle-free acupuncture / acupressure cure for chronic Blepharospasm / abnormally serious rapid incessant eyelid twitching / eye blinking disorders along with essentially their underlying not-widely-known and yet veracious and unvarnised pathological / medical causes, that are told purely for charity purposes and on humanitarian grounds will continue to get widely promoted & recommended by more and more kind and benevolent others so that more and more people suffering from the related eye disorders will be able to deal with their conditions accordingly and effectively towards the goals of full recoveries and getting back their normal life and promising futures.

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