diagnosis of blepharospasm
So your eyelids are twitching, blinking, squinting or otherwise closing involuntarily. You say to yourself, “What is going on with my eyes? They are closing without my wanting them to!”
You go to your eye doctor and he tells you it is dry eye and prescribes some drops. It does not help relieve the excessive blinking.
You go to another eye doctor for another opinion and he tells you it is your nerves or allergies. But, that is not relieve the excessive blinking either.
The blinking is getting worse and you go to yet another eye doctor. You finally have someone who identifies the problem. Upon hearing the description and symptoms you know that you have received the proper diagnosis. He says, “It is a neurological disorder called blepharospasm”. Your reaction is, “really, what do I do now?”
He then gives you the name of a neurologist who will provide the “treatment of choice”, which is injections into the muscles around your eyes.
This was my story. So, I told the neurologist to go ahead and give me the eyelid injections, since I needed the relief. A few days later the blinking is reduced somewhat but in place of it I look in the mirror and notice my eyes and the side of my face look different. My smile looks different. In the shower my eyes droop and the soap gets into them. By the sixth week the effect is gone and I go back for another treatment of painful injections. Then I think to myself, “What am I doing”? I call the neurologist and ask if he can guarantee me this will not harm me in the future. When he said he could not, I decided to stop the injections. As you might have expected, the symptoms returned.
A short time later, I started a nutritional program that dramatically diminished the eye twitching. If it helped me, maybe it could help you?
You go to your eye doctor and he tells you it is dry eye and prescribes some drops. It does not help relieve the excessive blinking.
You go to another eye doctor for another opinion and he tells you it is your nerves or allergies. But, that is not relieve the excessive blinking either.
The blinking is getting worse and you go to yet another eye doctor. You finally have someone who identifies the problem. Upon hearing the description and symptoms you know that you have received the proper diagnosis. He says, “It is a neurological disorder called blepharospasm”. Your reaction is, “really, what do I do now?”
He then gives you the name of a neurologist who will provide the “treatment of choice”, which is injections into the muscles around your eyes.
This was my story. So, I told the neurologist to go ahead and give me the eyelid injections, since I needed the relief. A few days later the blinking is reduced somewhat but in place of it I look in the mirror and notice my eyes and the side of my face look different. My smile looks different. In the shower my eyes droop and the soap gets into them. By the sixth week the effect is gone and I go back for another treatment of painful injections. Then I think to myself, “What am I doing”? I call the neurologist and ask if he can guarantee me this will not harm me in the future. When he said he could not, I decided to stop the injections. As you might have expected, the symptoms returned.
A short time later, I started a nutritional program that dramatically diminished the eye twitching. If it helped me, maybe it could help you?
Blepharospasm Diagnosis? I Can Help.
Steve Zarren, President
Feel Better LLC
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