Problem with eyelid twitching

schuur · Silver Member Joined: 19 Mar 2002 Posts: 280

Hi, I'm 21 years old and recently my eyelids, both the upper and the lower have began to twitch. This happens only on my right eye and never on the left eye. The twitching can sometimes last for hours, there is no regular pattern of appearing of these twitches. At first I thought it was nothing at first but now I am getting worried because sometimes the entire right side of my face begins to jerk and twitch. Is there a solution for my problem?

collette · Silver Member Joined: 18 Aug 2001 Posts: 291

There can be many reasons for these twitches that you are having. There is no cure for the common eye twitches and their cause is unknown, probably has some connection with random discharging of some nerve fibers in the nerves that are controlling the movements of eyelids, but it is nothing serious since they disappear quickly. Some ophtalmologists think that the reason for these twitches is too much caffeine in the blood, so they recommend lowering the caffeine intake. The condition and the symptoms you have described lead me to think of hemifacial spasms which are usually caused by some kind of a pathological or obstructive process that is affecting your facial nerve, like recent infection of your ear or the temporomandibular joint or some other obstructive condition. When facial nerve is suffering some kind of a trauma it usually affects the way your facial muscles behave. The solution is the removal of whatever is causing irritation of the nerve or sometimes Botulinum injections may help. In any case you should schedule an appointment with your doctor and ask him for advice and treatment for your condition.

eow_c · Newbie Joined: 20 Dec 2007 Posts: 51

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My whole body twitches from one point in time to another.
yesterday it was the back of my left calf, today it was my upper lip and seems to be moving over my face into my left temple and really feel my brain moving. I have been dealing with this for years!!! eye, temple, legs, arms, stomach, foot, ankles, back i believe that even my heart twitches, as sometimes i feel an abnormal extra beat like it is almost skipping or is an extra one. It is so annoying!! it never hurts, but is distracting because i will sit and hold whatever area of my body is twitching that day to feel the movement and keep it from twitching so bad............

eow_c · Newbie Joined: 20 Dec 2007 Posts: 51

In fact most of the prolonged neuromuscular eyelid twitching disorders nowadays are closely connected to the side effects of modern medications especially the Atypical Antipsychotics that carry the side effects of Extrapyramidal Symptoms (EPS), Tardive Dyskinesia (TD) etc that would potentially and eventually disturb the normal functioning of the dopamine receptors (one of the main neurotransmitters in our nervous system / key elements of neuron (nerve cells) essential for the control of human body motions) such as blocking them etc (in carrying out their medical mechanisms to cure certain other sicknesses and unfortunately is also one of the unavoidable side effects of such medications). Next, such a situation would then lead to bodily chemical imbalances and then potential interruptions to the "message sending, conveying and relaying" neuron operations between the human brain and any parts of the human body that would in turn trigger off a variety of largely uncontrollable involuntary and purposeless movement disorders on any parts of our body, including the eyes organ that are substantially beyond control of the ones suffering from them.

As such, in the case of prolonged chronic neuromuscular (medication-induced) eyelid twitchings, since it is the dopamine-disturbing substances / other 'contaminating agents' that disturb the eyes nerves and cause all the unwanted twitchings, spasms, tics etc, getting rid of them from the eyes nerves /related nerves around the particular organ having the twitchings would then naturally, reasonably, logically and obviously be the most clear-cut, direct and straightforward way of curing such a neurological / neuromuscular sickness.

In this regard, I have suffered from a Tardive Dykinesia-induced non-stop eyelid twitching for about a year quite a few years back and I have sought a great varieties of cures, including Botox injections from various medical personnel & specialists and actually I manage to get it finally and fully cured once and for all through an alternative instrument aided self-adminstered acupuncture cure applied onto the 'He Gu' acupuncture point (that serves to strengthen the eyes & other facial nerves and the toxin purging purpose as mentioned above) located on my wrist as instructed to me by an acupuncturist who deal with my chronic neuromuscular medication-induced non-stop eyelid twitching.

The Suggested Alternative Instrument-aided Self-administered Acupuncture Cure :

Well, regarding the 'He Gu' acupuncture point I have mentioned above 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.

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 :

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