Help for Twitching
 

I have been having a problem with a twitch in my face for about a week now. It is starting to really bug me. Has anyone ever treated a twitch like that with drugs? If so, which ones? It is the muscle directly to the left of the bottom of my nose, so it is like the bottom of my cheek is twitching.

It is not constant throughout the day, but occurs every day repeatedly. I'm wondering if the baclofen I am taking is actually dampening it down somewhat.:confused:

As one twitcher to another--No.

Mine were my eyelid, my cheek and my upper and lower lip, all on the right side of my face.

I tried everything to get rid of my twitches, nothing worked.
The doc said it was caffeine, i cut caffeine, chocolate?..ditto
More sleep...slept more, stress?...did everything I could to cut stress, even if it was good stress!

I used to press on the twitches, but when they were all happening at once I looked like I was playing "Twister" with my fingers, trying to hold pressure on every spot!

The doc said it's not MS...I just kept on twitching and got a new doctor.

The new one said...it's MS! It's fasciculations. It will go away sooner or later OR we can inject some Botox in there to stop it.

I'd have tried the Botox if it hadn't let up.
(he said he could use the rest of the syringe on some of my more prominent wrinkles!) :D

My lower left eyelid twitches at times. There's no stopping it either, it just lets up eventually. It can go on for minutes at a time. And it's very obvious when it happens. :o

I had 1 whole side of my face twitching for a couple months. I just waited it out. It was really annoying for sure.

Pressing on it does work for a short period of time.

Botox is an interesting idea for sure. If this doesn't go away soon, I'll be asking about that at my next neuro appt in August. It hasn't been as bad today, but I got more sleep last night. It's still doing it, just not as constantly as yesterday.

Holly, stress can cause this. And I'd say you've had more than your fair share lately. It'll probably stop just as suddenly as it started but I'd bet my paycheck (:p I don't have one anymore!!) that it's stress.

medicine maybe??
 

Well I twitch all night and it's my legs & arms. Also when I'm sitting and start relaxing I begin twitching, maybe it's the morphine I am on, not sure. It's annoying to my husband at night, sometimes I twitch so hard I wake myself up.
Good Luck and bless you,
LeeAnn

Like Wiz, I have been having the same twitching issue in my lower left eyelid for over a month. I actually didn't know until this thread that these involuntary twitches were called fasciculations (thanks!) Mine have been roving and intermittent, eventually resolving, and the eye thing was new to me.

Anyway, I read up on it a little bit and saw that it often happens when you don't drink enough water, or that not being well hydrated enough can at least exacerbate fasciculations. Well, I realized I had been guilty as charged! I had been very good about drinking enough water for a long time (needed for other things to function better as well, including the brain). Anyway, I re-disciplined myself about 10 days ago and I have to tell you, although the fasciculations have not completely disappeared, they are MUCH better and less frequent! :eek:

Make sure you're drinking enough water -- it might help! I know for many people it's hard. I have a pitcher that I fill up at the beginning of the day and try to make sure it's empty by the time I retire for the night (that is, when I'm behaving! :D)

Hi Holly,
When I get them what I do is, okay.. this is odd: I mouthed the vowel sounds, A ,E, I, O, U. I do them very big and drastically, mouth wide open, to stretch the muscles in my whole face. I seems to relax them afterward.

I do this ten times in a row and I am good to go. Open the mouth wide, shaped like the sound of each vowel. You don't have to say them, just mouth them and say them in your head.

Do it in private, it looks as odd as it sounds.:D It works for me, but we all are different, so it may help some here, and you too. I hope it works for you. I used to get embarrassed at work, I would think everyone was staring at those twitches, eyes and mouth. I wanted to hide out.:eek: