Eye twitch during menstruation
water...@yahoo.com
A day or two before my period starts, and then pretty much for the
duration I have the most awful twitch in my eyelids.
I spoke to my GP (also a homeopath) and she recommended that I massage
the area surrounding my eyes when the twitch occurs, to draw more
blood into the area.
Well I've massaged till I'm literally blue in the face and still it
comes.
Any help/suggestions will be most welcome.
Thanks
Helen
Cape Town, South Africa
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balance Vata
for example by warm self massage with sesame oil "Abyanga"
if Shirodhara is available where you are it may be helpful
nervine herbs like valerian and ashwagandha might be helpful
your local Transcendental Meditation centre may be able to direct you to
an M.D.
with Ayurvedic training. You may find a genuinely qualified ayurvedic
"Vaidya" in your local Indian community (B.A.M.S.) or there may be an
African tradition healer
who can help you
Larry Bickford
water...@yahoo.comX wrote:
> If anyone else has had this horrid little twitch then please help me.
>
> A day or two before my period starts, and then pretty much for the
> duration I have the most awful twitch in my eyelids.
Thus far, all of the "natural" recommendations (meditation, massage,
accupuncture) are appropriate possible remedies, asuming it is a common
eyelid muscle spasm.
That's a "twitch" which occurs almost always in one eyelid, usually the
outside corner of the upper lid, sometimes the lower. It is almost
always caused by stress, sometimes by excessive caffeine, sometimes by
medications and, as you can relate, hormone shifts. (Note: if there are
any other "twitches", tingling, numbness, ringing in the ears, dizziness
or other neurological symptoms, this requires medical attention.
Sometimes, twitch is caused by an eyelash rubbing against a "trigger"
spot on the eyeball or irritating the eyelid.) Now that being said:
If it's stress. Relax. Get more sleep. Try the wholistic/alternative
remdies suggested. A glass of wine might work. You could also take
anti-anxiety type medications. People have had success with Kava Kava,
but that's essentially an anti-anxiety drug as well. Sometimes even a
simple antihistamine (diphenhydramine, Benadryl in the US, for example)
might work.
---Larry
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Catherine Williams
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> That's a "twitch" which occurs almost always in one eyelid, usually the
> outside corner of the upper lid, sometimes the lower. It is almost
> always caused by stress, sometimes by excessive caffeine, sometimes by
The excessive caffeine statement makes me wonder: Do you use Midol?
Midol includes caffeine. It could be a reaction to the drug...
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Ken Knecht
<3ae253e3...@news.netactive.co.za>:
Try 50 mg. zinc a day. Though I'm not a woman and in my case the
twitch occured most of the time, it cured the problem for me.
drfrank21
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First off a lid twitch (blepharospasm) is NOT a circulatory problem so you can
rub away and absolutely have no
effect! It's a nervous system problem. But I guess a Homeopath would not have a
clue.
This is a benign (harmless) condition that is usally triggered by some event,
such as fatigue, stress, caffeine among
a few. Sometimes it's simply idiopathic, or w/o any apparent cause. Obviously in
your case, something with your
cycle is triggering it.
As far as treatment goes, there's not a lot of effective conv medical treatment
(cool compresses, identifying the
trigger, sometimes an antihistamine) but I doubt any alt method( accupuncture,
homeopathic ) would be
of any therapuetic value either.
frank
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Jay A. Hafner, D.C.
Jay Hafner,dc
chiro
drfrank21
says...
>
>I think you might be wrong.
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About what?? Please educate me and set me straight. I realize that
I only have 2 decades of eye care experience and deal with this condition
routinely so tell me what I'm wrong about.
Anybody can write what you did w/o backing it up. So if you can elucidate
on it everyone can learn more about this and the treatment(s).
frank
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help, might be wrong. I doubt that in all your years in eye care, that you
know very much about what alts can or cannot do to help. Even though I do
not agree with Andrew on much, I think that he is right on this. I also
think that a Chiropractor may be able to help this. Have you any experience
with folks who used TCM or Chiro for this, and then came to you because it
did not help?
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drfrank21
says...
>
>I think that your comment, that you doubt that any alt might be able to
>help, might be wrong. I doubt that in all your years in eye care, that you
>know very much about what alts can or cannot do to help. Even though I do
>not agree with Andrew on much, I think that he is right on this. I also
>think that a Chiropractor may be able to help this. Have you any experience
>with folks who used TCM or Chiro for this, and then came to you because it
>did not help?
Thanks for confirming my suspicions that you don't have a clue regarding
blepharospasms and treatments for such.
frank
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I bow before your superior power. Please look kindly on a lowly human. Grant
me , O god of Healing, your benevolence.
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drfrank21
says...
>
>And you, O Mighty God of Healing, knowing all that can be known about this.
>I bow before your superior power. Please look kindly on a lowly human. Grant
>me , O god of Healing, your benevolence.
>He of no worth beseeches you
>it
>> frank
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There you go- now you've got the idea!!!!
frank
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>If anyone else has had this horrid little twitch then please help me.
>
Thanks everyone for their informative (and somewhat amusing)
responses.
To clarify things - the only meds I take are my contraceptive pill,
the only caffeine is from fizzy drinks (not a lot). I take
mulitvitamins each day to boost my RDA. I drink approximately 10 - 12
glasses of water per day.
One of the posts mentioned using ZINC. Why Ken? When I did some
research on Zinc nothing was mentioned regarding twitches, however
magnesium was mentioned anecdotally.
I must admit to being low on the sleep front, but that doesn't account
for the rest of the month being "tic-free".
Back to the drawing board.
Again, thanks all!
Helen
Cape Town,
Michael E. Richardson
In Ayurveda, balance is the key to health. All seven tissue transformation
occurring properly daily is considered healthy and normal; food becomes
blood plasma, blood plasma becomes blood, blood becomes muscle, muscle
become fat, fat becomes bone, bone becomes bone marrow, bone marrow becomes
either sperm or egg. When this cycle is disturbed, it is termed tridosha and
Vata, Pitta, and Kapha are used to define the imbalance. Vata is space and
air elements and responsible for most problems as it moves throughout the
body and delivers all nutrients wherever needed. Please see this post for
further details (came right after your post). I would suspect vata dosha is
at fault here, since it controls the nervous system. Vata churna is a
mixture of six flavors designed to balance this dosha. It would "cure" this
twitch simply. I use Ayurvedic principles 33 years now. Enjoy, Michael
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Ken Knecht
<nameeto4tvt66uemo...@4ax.com>:
> One of the posts mentioned using ZINC. Why Ken? When I did
> some research on Zinc nothing was mentioned regarding
> twitches, however magnesium was mentioned anecdotally.
>
I dunno. I mentioned the problem to my DO at an annual physical
many years (10 - 15) ago. He suggested zinc. I tried it and in
a week or less it worked. I've been using it ever since and the
twitch never returned. But maybe it is all a coincidence - the
twitch may have gone away by itself.
Incidently, at that time I wasn't taking a multi - or anything
else. Now I take a bunch of stuff, and the actual zinc intake
has increased to 65 mg total.
In any case, the extra zinc is cheap and I doubt it's hurting me
any.
Ken
Ken