Eye Twitching Help

[Eye Twitcher]

Glad I found this website/forums! I was wondering does anyone have any suggestions for reducing eye twitching that they have found useful? I was hoping for something less invasive than Botox. I typically get eye twitching when I am really stressed but was wondering how it is for others? Thanks for any suggestions!

[ntuc]

My Own Healing Experience From Chronic Eyelid-twitching sickness



I would very much want to tell you that I have suffered from the similar symptoms (eyelid-twitching / eye-blinking of countless times in a split second ). I have suffered from it for about one year and then I finally get it totally cured a few years back through acupuncture therapy (an alternative instrument-aided self-administered one instructed to me by the acupuncturist attending to my eyelid-twitching sickness - because I felt annoyed with such needle-piercing therapy, and hence it's definitely a free-of-charge one)


Actually, before I get this sickness totally cured through that self-administered acupuncture therapy, I have actually sought other numerous but futile treatments from the other medical specialists / personnel, including taking Botox injections (for about 3 times from a neurosurgeon). In connection, my rapid eyelid-twitching / eye-blinking sickness is actually caused by neurological muscle spasms side effects of dopamine-disturbing medications of certain antipsychotics meant for the treatment of certain mental disorders.


Hence, I would like to share with you my healing experience from such an annoying sickness and I hope that you will somehow draw some useful reference from the information given.



For all the relevant details, please refer to the following :



My Healing Experience From Such Medication-induced Eyelid-twitching / Eye-blinking :

http://www.tcmdiscovery.com/bbs/foru...s.asp?TID=4393



The Additional Details of My Healing Experience From This Sickness :

http://goldbamboo.com/forum/western-...erience-3.html



A New Version of The Suggested Acupuncture Cure For Chronic Eyelid Twitching / Eye Blinking :

http://www.webportal.com.my/forum/fo...?TID=4437&PN=2



Primary Vs Secondary Blepharospasm (an excerpt from my reply to other party) :


http://www.blepharospasm.org/forums/...sts/63263.html



Besides, you can also refer to all the posts made under eowc in the Yuku Forum website as follows for further pertaining details (especially the information about Botox injections).


http://eyecareeyedoctorandvision.yuku.com/forums/71


Lastly, I hope that the information given will be useful to you. Thank you.

[Unregistered]

I offer no advice but want to thank the other posters. My right eye started twitching last Friday and has done so off and on since. Thanks for the information and the hope. I was getting a bit worried. My mom has dystonia of the vocal cords and I see that this could be hereditary and the onset is usually after 40. I am 41 So I am hoping not to have as severe a problem as my mom does. This sure is annoying though.

Ann

[Twitching]

My lower eyelid twitches constantly, and unfortunately, the only relief I have found is with the BOTOX treatments. My eye care specialist said that many times, patients are cured of their twitch after only one BOTOX treatment, so it might be worth giving it a shot. The only other relief I've found is in anti-anxiety drugs. I don't consider myself a particularly anxious person, but I am quite driven, so taking that medication has helped significantly. Some say dropping caffeine helps, but I've never found relief by doing that.

[ntuc]

A New Version For The Self-administered Acupuncture Cure For Blepharospasm / Chronic Non-stop Persistent Rapid Eyelid-twitching / Eye-blinking



Thanks for taking an interest in my posts made in this website. At the same time, I also have received lots of positive feedbacks from my email inbox from other persons (troubled by such annoying non-stop eyelid twitching sickness) giving thanks to me for the curative benefits they experience upon exercising the suggested alternative instrument-aided self-administered acupuncture method.


In response to the additional enquiries about the suggested self-administered acupuncture method that these persons have made to me so far through the emails, I thus would like to provide to the intended readers a new version about this acupuncture therapy which contains other extra and more in-depth details as follows : -


Well, regarding the 'He Gu' acupuncture point (as shown in the diagram below) I have mentioned in my prior article for the suggested cure for non-stop eyelid-twitching, its exact location is at the back of the palm of one's right hand, 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 - perhaps you would need to briefly explore that part of your right hand at the same time to locate that point, and I hope you will understand that the hand structures of each person differ from one another).


When the acupuncture point is identified and marked accordingly, you can then re-open your hand , and then what you all can do is to sit down, and at the same time press that onto the surface of that acupuncture point (using just mild force) with any long blunt-pointed object such as toothpick, a normal writing pen (which is out of ink of course) etc against your chin (suggested for convenience purpose) for a continuous 2 hours (during any time in a day), and it's preferably to do that when you are about to go to sleep at night (so that you have more free time to do it).


However , if you are eager to find out the very exact location of that particular acupuncture point to further verify the information given above, I would suggest you to seek consultancy from a licensed acupuncturist.


About the question of how would one know that he / she is applying the blunt-pointed instrument-aided pressure at the right point (the "He Gu" acupuncture point - please refer to the diagram added below), well, the nerves of our bodies especially the ones closely adjacent to each other, would tend to interwind, overlap and interconnect among one another. Whilst the 1.5 cm and its location on the wrist as portrayed in the diagram below for the 'He Gu' acupuncture point is actually a standard measure for the size of the hands of the average grown adults.


Next, applying blunt-pointed instrument-aided pressings upon it (or any points around that 'He Gu' acupuncture point area) will actually generate direct stimulations to the other nerves surrounding that pressed point around the wrist area as well, and subsequently, produce a reflexology stimulus / 'qi' that will flow / travel right up to the 'final destinations'(please refer to the medical references weblink added below), which are the peripheral nerves attached to the muscles of the entire face, especially the eyelids to generate the desired healing effects to the intended areas by gradually restoring their bodily chemical balances. In my case and the others, that acupuncture technique actually serves to gradually and eventually drive out the risperdal toxins / other related contaminating substances that disrupt the normal functioning of the dopamine neurotransmitters chemicals of the neurons / nerve cells around our eyelid muscles and cause all those rapid unwanted eyelid-twitching / eye-blinking, totally out of our bodies and enable us to get totally cured once and for all in the end.


In this regard, based on the acupuncturist, the blunt-pointed objects such as normal writing pen (which is out-of-ink of course) etc instructed to me for such self-administred therapy is actually intended as a substitute for the acupuncture needle to deal effectively with the particular acupuncture point.


Unlike the other traditional method of acupressure which involves the use of fingers to press and massage the acupuncture points, the use of blunt-pointed object in such a case for the treatment of chronic eyelid-twtiching is actually meant as a 'leverage' to provide an adequately focused and hence a 'reflexology stimulus' that is strong enough to deal more precisely and effectively with that acupuncture point.


Whereas, if that acupuncture point is to be treated with fingers, the stimulus effect generated would be very much smaller due to the fact that such pressings and massagings would reasonably not last long enough to provide any reliefs for the chronic eyelid-twitching. Besides, given the larger suface area of the fingers as well as their rounded physical shape (compared to the blunt-pointed objects), a large part of the forces produced from such pressings and massagings would then be reasonably applied onto the related muscles rather than directly onto the intended nerves through the related acupuncture point to deal effectively with such sickness.


Please be reminded that a good sleep at night throughout the therapy period is essential for the healing to be effectively done. And a person shouldn't associate oneself again with the underlying causes such as over-straining of the eyes, excessive cafeine intake, allergy/overdosage of certain medication (with muscle spasms side effects) that causes this non-stop eyelid-twitching to the particular person in the first place to avoid a relapse of that sickness, especially after getting cured from it.


Please take note that one should continually apply that method in the case where it proves to be effective in dealing with the eyelid twitching problem (after trying it for about 3 days' time).


For your reference, I get my eyelid twitching stopped the next day after the acupuncture treatment. But when I stop the treatment for the next few days, the twitchings just come back again. Based on the acupuncturist, the explanation for the relapse is such that if one were to apply just one-off / short-term treatment, it would then only serve to disperse the dopamine-disturbing toxin / other 'contaminating agents' around one's eye nerves enabling the twitching to stop just temporarily (without totally purging such toxins / 'contaminating agents' out of the human body). So, it works just like doing a physiotherapy whereby one should complete the whole course of treatment (in this case, applying that self-administered technique persistently for weeks/ a few months) to get the eyelid-twitching sickness totally cured effectively once and for all in the end.


Next, the suggested duration of two-hour period/day (continuous non-stop healing process) for that self-administered treatment is just what I have recommended so far to other persons having the similar symptoms based on my very own healing experience from this eyelid-twitching sickness and the others who suffer from it (who eventually get it totally cured). All in all, it would acutally depend on one's healing progress for the eyelid twitching sickness upon applying that suggested self-administered acupuncture method.



Related References :



Diagram of The "He Gu" Acupuncture Point :




Medical References For The 'He Gu' Acupuncture Point :

http://www.acuxo.com/meridianPicture...ge%20Intestine



Note :


Based on the feedbacks and responses so far from the ones (both in my real life and those seeking helps from me through email) applying this suggested self-administered acupuncture therapy for chronic, especially medication-induced rapid non-stop eyelid twitching / eye-blinking disorders, it just turns out that empirically the longer blunt-pointed object such as the normal writing pen (which is out-of-ink of course) etc is much more effective and practical (than a toothpick) for this suggested cure especially when it comes to applying the instrument-aided pressings on the specified "He Gu" acupuncture point as illustrated in the post above. Besides, since it won't cause much undesirable physical annoyances to its users, it is thus a much more user-friendly implement for this suggested acupuncture technique.

[ntuc]

Botox Injections For Blepharospasm / Hemifacial Spasms - My Opinions



As a matter of fact, I have received 3 therapy sessions of Botox injections from a neurosurgeon for my chronic medication-induced involuntary uncontrollable non-stop rapid eyelid-twtiching / eye-blinking at a very exorbitant cost of U.S 5000 dollars each from an expensive private medical centre located in my home country (one of the less-developed ones in Asia) before I have actually got it gradually and totally cured once and for all in the end through acupuncture treatment (an alternative-instrument-aided self-administered one - please refer to the weblinks below for further information).


The remark below is a quotation from someone else :

'Long-term therapy with botulinum toxin is sometimes associated with therapy failure following repeated injections of the neurotoxin, presumably due to specific antibody production.'


My reply :

Well, the general medical rule is such that human body would tend to get used / immunized to whatever similar medications fed to it over the long-term in such a way that when such immunization actually takes place, the recipients of such medications would then not be able to respond in the 'effectively intended' way to acquire the desired medical effects from such medications. So, I think that's the reason why Botox would fail in the case you have described.


Well, to be really frank with you, I have never considered Botox injections to be a permanently conclusive and totally practical cure for such chronic non-stop eyelid-twitching / eye-blinking and other Hemifacial Spasms disorders.


In regard of Botox injections for eyelid twitching problem / Hemifacial Spasms, such toxin-based medication would just serve to sort of 'half-paralyse' the eyelid / facial muscles to reduce such twitchings / tics without being able to do anything curative to the problematic nerves around the non-stop twitching eyelid / facial muscles that cause such muscle-twitchings / tics problems. Besides, each Botox injection would work for just 3-6 months and after that one would very probably need to get another injection one after another indefinitely in regard of such a treatment to continue to get the similar muscle-paralysing healing effects.


Next, in regard of the Botox injections applied onto the facial muscles, one would very likely develop such undesired side effects as paralysed facial muscles, droopy eyelids (in certain cases) etc when one gets such Botox injections over the long-term after quite a number of years.


Subsequently, even though newer and newer versions of Botox injections composed possibly with different combinations of medical contents would tend to be invented from time to time nowadays to overcome such 'immunization effects' of the ones of the older versions received regularly by its regular users, I am nevertheless in the opinion that such a group of persons are actually running a risk of suffering eventually from the potentially unknown side effects of such different versions of Botox medications, which can be really disastrous when the side effects of such medications just 'manifest all of a sudden'.


As to the acupuncture treatment administered onto the "He Gu" acupuncture point (the one located on one's wrist and is effective in treating the facial nerves especially the eyelids - please refer to the diagram added in related posts made in the weblinks below), the underlying mechanism, as explained to me by the acupuncturist dealing with my eyelid twitching sickness was such that it would gradually purge the dopamine-disturbing / other neurotransmitters chemical-disrupting toxins that cause all such eyelid / facial twitchings, tics and spasms out of one's body, and hence actually help restore the bodily chemical balances to enable a person to get totally cured once and for all in the end. Next, that's exactly the healing and curative benefits that I had acquired and subsequently the ones having the similar eyelid-twitching problems in my real life and to whom I recommended such alternative instrument-aided self-administered acupuncture method (which involves the use of a blunt-pointed object such a normal writing pen which is out-of-ink etc and pressing using just mild force onto the very surface of that acupuncture point, and hence is safe-and-convenient-to-apply considering every single aspect of the methodology) had also get cured and carried on living a normal life getting back everything they lost previously due to such debilitating sickness especially their jobs to continue earning a living to survive on and provide a decent life for their families.


All in all, my opinion is such that it's always better to solve any problems once and for all by dealing directly with their root causes rather than through indefinitely indirect methods of 'interceptions' that will be potentially hazardous over the long-term for the ones suffering from them.



Related References :



http://www.tcmdiscovery.com/bbs/foru...s.asp?TID=4393


http://www.drmirkin.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1147

[ntuc]

Medical References For Botox Injections



Please refer to the information from the website as follows which gives the intended readers especially the prospective and current users an overview about the Botox injections which are composed mainly of Botulinum toxin. For your further information, Botox Injections are actually medical derivatives from Clostridium botulinum bacterium (which causes botulism) that have been intentionally abused before for the purpose of chemical warfare owing to its intense toxicity.

http://www.answers.com/topic/botox

Once again, I hope that the information given so far will be useful to the intended readers. Thank you.

[sharon333]

Thanks for the links.

[Unregistered]

so, how do I know when to call the doctor? My "twitch" has happened a few times a day, every day for 32 days. Yes, I know this because it is so dang annoying i've been watching the calendar. What's normal time period for twitching? I have been stressed so I assume it's related. but my mom has epilepsy, so when I saw all the neurologicical talk, i wanted to check.
Any advice is welcome. thanks

[ntuc]

'so, how do I know when to call the doctor? My "twitch" has happened a few times a day, every day for 32 days. Yes, I know this because it is so dang annoying i've been watching the calendar. What's normal time period for twitching? I have been stressed so I assume it's related. but my mom has epilepsy, so when I saw all the neurologicical talk, i wanted to check.
Any advice is welcome. thanks'



Well, my opinion is that when your eye-twitching / eye-blinking conditions simply get from bad to worse time after time until it turns out to be out-of-control and 'far more frequent' than the other people around you and especially when you blink your eyes so often that when it finally become so noticeable to the ones around you or you meet, until such a time when these other people just keep start asking 'why you keep blinking your eyes at me ?' Then I think it's simply the time for you to do something practical about it. Anyway, that's the similar experience I have come across before I actually get my medication-induced rapid non-stop eyelid-twitching / eye-blinking disorder eventually cured totally once and for all through acupuncture treatment (please refer to the prior post above). Lastly, I hope that my point of view and the information given so far in this website will turn out to be useful to you and the other intended readers. Thank you.