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Old 11-28-2007, 11:32 AM #2
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Lightbulb this sounds...

this sounds like a twitching? rather than spasms?

Twitching muscles in your age group, can be due to poor dietary intake
of magnesium and essential fatty acids.
In fact a drug company was going to market a product specifically for this.
Quote:
Neuropsychobiology. 2000;41(3):154-7.Click here to read Links
The control of blepharospasm by essential fatty acids.
Mostofsky DI, Yehuda S, Rabinovitz S, Carasso R.

Psychopharmacology Laboratory, Department of Psychology, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel. dmostof@bu.edu

Dopamine depletion induced by administration of Ro4-1284 produces a condition of rapid and repeated eye blinking in rats. This condition mimics the human disorder, blepharospasm, which often accompanies parkinsonism and other dopamine deficiency disorders. When given a 3-week course of a compound (SR-3) developed from a specific ratio of two free polyunsaturated fatty acids - linoleic acid and alpha-linolenic acid - the eye blinking rate following administration of Ro4-1284 is reduced to saline and no drug control levels. These results suggest a favorable prospect for essential fatty acids in general, and SR-3 in particular, to provide an improved therapeutic option for the clinical management of benign essential blepharospasm. Copyright 2000 S. Karger AG, Basel

PMID: 10754430 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
Magnesium also helps..most people do not eat enough magnesium containing foods, and instead drink alot of caffeine containing liquids. Caffeine will set off spasms too.

So try to do some dietary changes...if EFAs and Magnesium do not work, then check with a doctor. You may have simple allergies that irritate the eye lids.
If you are female, don't use cosmetics for a while, see if that helps.

to read:
EFAs in the diet and foods with them:
http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/showthread.php?t=6092

magnesium supplements and dietary sources:
http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/showthread.php?t=1138

These are the most likely causes for someone your age.
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