drooping eyelid and muscle tightness
 

I am a 21 year old male and since november I have noticed my right upper eyelid is drooping. It isnt impairing my vision but i can feel it droop and it bothers me. I went to an eye doctor and the noticed my pupil in the eye that is drooping is 2 mm larger in dim light than my left pupil. He referred me to a neurologist and the neurologist didnt think anything was wrong but sent me for an mri on my brain and blood work. Everything came back normal so he thinks its just a normal varience. But for about a month now I have noticed the my right arm and leg feel tight, almost weak but not really because I can play sports and run and do everything like I used to do. What could this be? Any help would be greatly appreciated. AM I just drving myself crazy and thinking about it too much?

Hi, I'll tell you a bit about what I've experienced, maybe you will see some areas that are similar to your experience.

I had tetanus which is a central nervous system disease. One of the things it did was make me weak. My little kitty felt as if she'd gained 50 pounds when I tried to pick her up, I couldn't lift my legs very high to walk, so it would take me three steps to cross a foot square tile... just two examples.

Okay, so I had a hard time getting the antibiotics to kill the bacteria, with the result that I had tetanus for fairly long and now I still have trouble with weakness -- the thing is that now instead of the weakness being all the time it happens when I'm under stress.

So, you might want to reflect on whether you have more weakness when you are under stress. If you do, then the problem may be related to your nerves and by using methylcobalamin you may be able to reverse your problems. Methylcobalamin regenerates nerves. But, it's not fast. I think we're sort of used to taking an aspirin and the pain goes away in an hour.

With methylcobalamin it takes more like a month or two for the replacement to reach a level where there's a significant change for the better.

Those are my thoughts...

Well I have had very similar symptoms for the last several months and it turned out that I was having a zoster outbreak. Also called Ramsay Hunt syndrome. ask the doc if you can try some valtrex and if you feel better on it chances are you have either varicella zoster which lives in our nerves from the chicken pox and comes out in times of stress, herpes simplex 1 or herpes simplex 2.

Thank you verymuch for the reply. I will say this, I have a bit of hypochondria so I do pay a lot more attention to myself and worry more about my health than I used to. I also never really had these symptoms until I went to the neurologist and he did strength test. So maybe it is just stress.

Thank you for the reply. What kinds of tests do they do to check for this

Well typically there is some kind of accompanying rash that they can culture but with mine there was no rash. It was by process of elimination. I did have my doc run blood tests for the varicella virus IGM, IGG and HSV1 and 2. My antibodies were high and based on my symptoms of feeling fluish they tried me on an antiviral med and I felt immensley better.

You can also try to se an ENT and describe your symptoms and ask him about Ramsay Hunt sydrome.

Or there is a supplement called l-lysine that you can try. If it makes you feel better then its likley you have a herpes zoster infection. (and dont worry its not always the sexual kind of herpes we are talking bout here)

Try up to 1000mg of lysine. You can safely go up to 2000 a day.

Hi, Oh dear, I didn't mean to make it sound as if "it's only stress" -- That's exactly not what I meant. Stress is very serious if it affects you. I mean, some people have stressful situations but their attitude is that it doesn't matter, things will turn out for the best... If you feel things very seriously, if things worry you quite a lot, then it actually changes your physiology.

I can't think of her name right now, but a scientist published a study that showed that stress actually burns out the ends of nerves. The ends of nerves are really small, but on the other hand, there are a lot of them.

Being affected by stress is not hypochondria. I'm so sorry if I gave the impression that feeling the affect of stress was giving in to imagined ills.

Please look at a list of symptoms of low B12 and see if there are many that are familiar to you. The thing with low B12 is that the sooner it is treated the more complete the healing and recovery can be.
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Hi, I remembered her name, Epel.

"Chronic stress appears to have the potential to shorten the life of cells, at least immune cells," wrote Elissa Epel of the University of California at San Francisco. "The results were striking," added co-author Elizabeth Blackburn, also of UCSF.

I was wrong about it being nerve cells. Sorry.

When I read one of her articles it talked about how the kind of stress that is a challenge, where in the end we can win and have something to celebrate, is good and we are better off for it.

I don't know if you ever heard the thing about mice that are chased by cats living longer (as long as they aren't caught) than mice who are not chased by cats. I think that must have come from her work...

Anyway, the idea is that when someone is in a situation where they have little or no control and bad things are happening or could happen, it is extremely stressful in a way which ages cells.

I hope that helps.

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Thanks, that does help. I do have a lot of stress in my life with school and worrying about my health all the time haha. I'm going to try to relax and not worry as much and see if that helps me at all.

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Two things... yesterday I tried to relax after a call to HopeNow about how Wells Fargo sent me a letter saying they denied my loan modification because I didn't send back the executed agreement... only in reality they never sent me the papers to be executed and sent back. I went outside to my shady corner where I have a peaceful arrangement of flowers and sat there for several minutes with the intention of relaxing, but when I tried to get up I couldn't because this sharp pain in my leg kept making it buckle and I couldn't keep my balance. When I could see it wasn't going to stop I held on to a low tree limb to get about a quarter of the way to my door, then there was a chair I could hold on to... So, my point is that relaxing is not always the outcome of wanting to relax or trying to relax.

The other thing is that your mother could have had a stressful pregnancy with the result that you grew from your very earliest days in an environment depleted of healthy levels of vitamin B12.

You're very young, so it may well be that stress your mother suffered is manifesting harm to you now. You may be worrying about your health because there are things that need to be addressed in order for you to go on in a healthy way for a long and good life.

I very much wish you would get the methylcobalamin, I would say the 5mg lozenges, and use them for two months. Start out by making notes of your symptoms, then each day as you are using the methylcobalamin make notes on your current symptoms and on how you are feeling.

At the end of two months you will have a pretty clear view of the effectiveness of methylcobalamin.

I feel sure that if you weren't having health problems you wouldn't be so worried about them. I think that B12 may make you feel so much better that you aren't worrying anymore.

:)

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