The Sorry Plight of the Chronic Eyelid-twitchers

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The Sorry Plight of the Chronic Eyelid-twitchers / Eye-blinkers - Our Experiences



'Actually by the time I got this abnormally Tardive Dyskinesia / medication-induced rapid eyelid-twitching / eye-blinking of countless times in a split second (which is one of its symptoms), the feeling was sort of like I was plunged into a situation between blindness and non-blindness in the sense that I could just vaguely ‘visualize’ the surroundings around me while my eyes were blinking, but getting unable to do anything else, even simple reading, watching tv in a ‘satisfactory’ way, and of course, I totally needed to refrain myself from driving (otherwise I would certainly bump the others or get bumped).


And given the fact that my eyes were just ‘blinking rapidly’ and I did not actually get totally ‘blind’ because of any actual damages to the eyes, I always simply found myself caught in a dilemna in between the options of reconciling myself with such an ‘eye disability’ (such as what the others around me had always advised me to do) and doing something medically effective to deal with it to bring my life back to the former usual days before I got this ‘eye sickness.


To be really frank with you, i just couldn’t help myself most of the times but to have suicidal tendencies each time when I locked myself up in my own room (with the lights all off) and kept on thinking about my hopelessly handicapped situation that denied me from doing actually anything, even all the very basic daily routines. And I also tended to avoid seeing anyone else (so as to avoid all sorts of embarrassments and feelings of inferiority complex on my part associated with my ‘visually incapacitating’ abnormalities in front of other people). So, can you just imagine the pains I had gone through during such an abnormally ‘eye-blinking period' ?


Let me just tell you something, each time me and the others having the similar symptoms get exposed to ‘strong lightings’ of any kind, we would just tend to shed tears uncontrollably apart from just blinking our eyes rapidly whilst at the same time, will get our eyes overstrained - that’s simply one of the obvious symptoms of photophobia associated with rapid eyelid- twitching / eye-blinking. And the same thing will happen when we overstrain our rapidly blinking eyes reading something else such as newspaper articles.


So, may I ask you a question, can you find any pleasures seeing a movie, working with a pc or reading a novel with a pair of tearing and rapidly blinking eyes which would uncontrollably and involuntarily get more and more overstrained (and hence just makes you shed even more tears and blink your eyes more and more rapidly) as you keep on watching the movies / doing the reading ?'


By making the quotations above, I just want to tell you that these are also the similar complaints that tend to be repeated over and over again by the ones both in my real life and those seeking helps from me through emails for their chronic eyelid-twitching / eye-blinking problems (especially the medication-induced ones).


Next, by making these posts, apart from sharing with you guys my healing experience from such a sickness through acupuncture treatment (for which there have been lots of empirically successful cases that I observe in my real life and given as positive feedbacks to me through my email inbox), the other reason that I tend to air my complaints nowadays about such a medication-induced eyelid twitching sickness over the internet is such that there are simply too many people in my home country which is less-developed still suffering from the similar pains that I have gone through before (whilst the number is still on the rise), and saddeningly, in most cases, these 'tragedies' would not have occurred at all in the very first place if the doctors-in-charge are conscientious and ethical enough in the duty of taking care of their medical welfare.


So, when the medications with harmful side effects are getting unscrupulously manipulated and exploited by certain individuals like the consciencelessly avaricious drug manufacturers, expensive private medical center owners, unethical medical personnel etc for their profit-making financial and commercial pursuits, what would be the actual underlying curative values of these medications then under such a circumstance ?


Or put it bluntly, is it justified and warranted to just get such medications labelled as ‘mere poisons’ under such a scenario ?


Lastly, I just hope that this world on the whole will eventually become a better place for anyone to live in with lesser unnecessary human-generated causes of worries and concerns for one's healthcare / well-being. Thank you.



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http://www.drmirkin.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=842

http://www.drmirkin.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1147

Must have been horrible. The nearest I've had to this was an eye twitch, said to be barely visible but I could sure feel it. And it was slowly getting worse. Luckily it went away when I stopped using caffeine. It's still slightly there in the background, but it doesn't distract or and scare me like it used to.

So if I imagine how I felt, and multiply that by an order of magnitude, I guess that's where you were at. Pharmaceuticals eh?

OK, this is going to sound a bit weird but bear with me, OK?

Three years ago I developed a twitch in my right eye and it started to drive me nuts, so I went to the doctor. He looked at me for two or three seconds then pulled a pair of scissors out of the desk draw and told me to close my eyes.

It was my right eyebrow that caused the problem! I have two or three hairs that just won't quit growing and when they get too long they touch the surface of my eyeball, causing the twitch. I KNOW that there are medical conditions that can cause twitches and ticks but before anyone trots off to the doctor just look at yourself in the mirror and check your eyebrows an eyelashes.

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'Must have been horrible. The nearest I've had to this was an eye twitch, said to be barely visible but I could sure feel it. And it was slowly getting worse. Luckily it went away when I stopped using caffeine. It's still slightly there in the background, but it doesn't distract or and scare me like it used to.'



'OK, this is going to sound a bit weird but bear with me, OK?

Three years ago I developed a twitch in my right eye and it started to drive me nuts, so I went to the doctor. He looked at me for two or three seconds then pulled a pair of scissors out of the desk draw and told me to close my eyes.

It was my right eyebrow that caused the problem! I have two or three hairs that just won't quit growing and when they get too long they touch the surface of my eyeball, causing the twitch. I KNOW that there are medical conditions that can cause twitches and ticks but before anyone trots off to the doctor just look at yourself in the mirror and check your eyebrows an eyelashes.'



Good for you all then.


But in my case and the others, the medication cures for depression are far worse than the depression sickness itself.


Apparently, the powerful nerve-disrupting side effects of certain anti-depressants, antipsychotics and other neuroleptics simply cannot be neutralized / offset by any other medications (once such side effects manifest onto the users).


Coupled with the fact that such eyelid-twitchings / eye-blinkings are caused by the invisible problematic nerves underneath the surface twitching eyelid muscles (that are totally OK both apparently and medically), one could really end up at his / her wits end in the face of such a prolonged annoying 'visually incapacitating' problem.


Ironically, what the formal mainstream western medication can at best eventually offer as treatment for such eyelid-twitching / eye-blinking / Hemifacial Spasms disorders is just the Botox Injections, which are actually a medical derivative from Clostridium botulinum bacterium (which causes botulism) that have been intentionally abused before for the purpose of chemical warfare owing to its intense toxicity (please refer to http://www.answers.com/topic/botox for further details).


Next, repeated Botox injections would have to be applied over and over again for the rest of one's life to maintain such muscle-paralysing effects to temporarily relieve the eyelid-twitchings / eye-blinkings. Over the long-run, the side effects associated with such toxin-based medications are potentially bound to manifest owing to the underlying toxic nature of such medications (please refer to http://community.kget.com/forums/thread/3459525.aspx for more information).


Luckily, these nerve-disrupting substances / elements can be driven out of the body (to restore bodily chemical balances) through acupuncture therapy in my case as well as the numerous others who were in the same boat as me before.

In addition, I would like to share with the intended readers the much more in-depth details of my experiences in coping and dealing with my medication-induced rapid involuntary eyelid-twitching / eye-blinking along with the valuable real-life lessons that I have learnt from such painful experiences before I eventually get the illness fully cured through the needle-free acupuncture technique as told in my prior posts above.


http://www.bettervisionforums.com/forum ... d.php?t=79

(Better Vision Forums > Eye Care Discussion > Eye Twitching and Eye Spasms > Share Your Eye Twitching Experience)

What A Patient Wants From Seeking Treatments ?



Included below is a conversation between me and the other third party about mental disorders & illnesses, the advantageous, disadvantageous of the medications for such illnesses and disorders as well as how such medications actually work in reality and what purposes they are supposed to serve along with several flaws, defects and demerits of the modern mainstream medical science and system. Next I hope that the information provided will be useful and helpful to the intended readers.



Remarks from the other person :

"Speaking of neurotransmitters, much is made by the medical community about their alleged central role in depression and anxiety. However, this is largely unproven."




My replies :

Well, it's totally undeniable that human bodies depend on the neurological mechanisms of neuron, brains, neuron networks, miscellaneous nervous systems, the many types of neurotransmitters chemical for all our bodily functionings which include cognitive and movement abilities etc. And that's the reason why the people with Parkinsonism, Dementia, Alzheimers etc whose brain cells and neurons have been substantially destroyed (and hence no neurotransmitter chemicals can be released / secreted out of them) could not think, act and behave properly at all.



Remarks from the other person :

"There is, for instance, no lab test that can be done to show that depression or anxiety sufferers do indeed suffer from low serotonin levels. And even if depression and anxiety sufferers indeed DO tend to suffer from low serotonin levels, this does NOT establish a causal relationship between low serotonin and depression/anxiety. Low serotonin may simply be a RESULT of suffering from anxiety disorder. Also, more than likely, serotonin is probably low only in specific parts of the brain (but normal or even above normal in other parts of the brain). All of this certainly explains why globally increasing serotonin levels with drugs like SSRIs typically does not give entirely satisfactory results. "



My replies :

In fact, the drugs like Prozac etc could only temporarily and artificially restore the chemical balance of the brains of the mentally-ill people by re-uptaking and maintaing the proper balance of dopamine and serotonin neurotransmitter chemicals of their brains. However, since such an artificial medical mechanism is all by way of "forced suppression" so as to artificially blocking any nerve and sensory impulses from getting sent and receive to and from the brains, and hence, artificially blocking the "neuron network traffics" the mental conditions of the related mentally-ill people would then suffer a greater relapse of their mental illnesses when the therapeutical effects of such "forced suppressions" of each dosage of the related medications just lapse completely, while the previously medication-forced- suppressed nerve and sensory impulses would just turn violent and out-of-control (when they are no longer artificially suppressed by medications anymore) and manifest in far worse uncontrollable and involuntary behavioural and personality changes in the related mentally-ill people. Hence, that's why in such cases, the cures are worse than the diseases themselves .



So, that's why I have said that other non-medicational efforts such as what I have mentioned and explained earlier on in my previous posts are primarily important in genuinely and permanently restoring the sanities of the mentally-ill people bit by bit and step by step.


Remarks from the other person :

"As for antipsychotics and dopamine, once again, dopamine levels may be out of balance in people suffering from psychosis. But it is impossible to say whether this is the actual cause. And since, like antidepressants, antipsychotics generally do not produce entirely satisfactory results, I would suspect that there is probably MUCH more to psychosis than a simple chemical imbalance."



My replies :

As a matter of fact, everything has its shortcomings, flaws and defects. For example, in the case of people suffering from Tardive Dyskinesia, Dystonia and other movement disorders due to interruptions and disruptions to the synaptic activities of the neurotransmitter chemical dopamine, well, given that such fluidly and nearly totally transparent neurotransmitter chemical secreted by countless neurons and brain cells are hardly observable and distinguishable by any medical examinations such as MRI, CT-scannings etc whereby the people with Tardive Dyskinesia, Dystonia etc would obviously show their involuntary and uncontrollable movement disorders to the related doctors, nevertheless, no conclusive medical examinations, observations, diagnosis supported by any hard evidences can be given at the same time. So, that's why under such scenarios and phenomena, such movement disorders are labelled as "undiagnosed diseases".



Next, I suffer from Tardive Dyskinesia (rapid, involuntary, uncontrollable, purposeless eye blinking /eyelid twitching) before and my efforts of seeking the mainstream treatments from the western medical science just turn out to be totally futile such as the scenarios and phenomena explained above. And the fact that my Tardive Dyskinesia movement disorders are totally cured once-and-for-all about 6 years ago through a totally needle-free acupuncture / acupressure technique, which has fully cured countless of people having the same problem as mine so far, and well, the flaw and defect of this acupuncture / acupressure technique is such that, regardless of the ongoing ample empirical evidences about its obviously evident and prompt efficacies, the mainstream western medical science still would not recognise the validity of it simply for the mere reason that the healing mechanisms of such a totally needle-free acupuncture / acupressure technique are not be able to be observed, explored and studied by them, regardless of its obviously evident, prompt and 100 % healing efficacies as supported by more and more countless empirical evidences.



In such a connection, what I wish to say is that for anything that we do not know or have not yet known, it doesn't mean that they are phoney, fallacious or non-existent.



All in all, under any circumstances, I firmly and reasonably believe that for any patients / people seeking treatments for any of their illnesses, especially the desperate ones, I reckon that they would want the best and most effective treatments for themselves under any circumstances and situations. Anyhow, for anyone seeking treatments for their illnesses, their sole and only purpose is to get their illnesses and disorders totally cured, and preferably, once and for all.


Further Details :

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Related Information :


http://www.curezone.com/forums/fm.asp?i=1631689#i (Various Possible Medical Causes of Unusual Eyelid Twitching / Eye Blinking - Brief Explanations)

http://www.curezone.com/forums/fm.asp?i=1428915#i (Chronic Rapid (Non-brain-damage-induced)Eyelid-twitching / Eye-blinking - Brief Medical Explanations)

http://www.curezone.com/forums/fm.asp?i=1428920#i (Follow Up : Tardive Dyskinesia (Chronic Rapid Eyelid-twitching /Eye-blinking Is One of The Common Symptoms)

http://www.curezone.com/forums/fm.asp?i=1470781#i (Why Botox Didn't Work ?)

http://www.curezone.com/forums/fm.asp?i=1233341#i (A New Version For The Totally, Self-administered, Totally Needle-free, Totally Free-Of-Charge, Painless, Harmless Acupuncture / Acupressure Cure For Non-stop Persistent Rapid Eyelid-twitching / Eye-blinking - Meant For Promptly Immediate, complete & Once-and-for-all treatments)

http://www.curezone.com/forums/fm.asp?i=1386471#i(The Story Behind The Suggested Totally Self-administered, Totally Needle-free, Totally Free-of-charge, Painless, Harmless Acupuncture / Acupressure Technique For Abnormally Rapid Eyelid-twitching / Eye-blinking Described Above)

Another Recent Online Third-party Testimonial About The Acclaimed Efficacies of The Suggested Self-administered, Totally Needle-free, Totally Free-of-charge, Painless, Harmless, Simple Acupuncture / Acupressure Method & Appealed Humanitarian Causes For The Numerous Poor And Needy Others



Included below is one of the another online testimonials about the acclaimed efficacies of the suggested self-administered, totally needle-free, totally free-of-charge, painless, harmless, simple acupuncture / acupressure technique / method meant for genuinely effective cure of Blepharospasm / chronic eyelid twitching / eye blinking disorder. Most importantly, I earnestly and sincerely hope that by making this particular post, it would serve to promote and further the related humanitarian cause especially for the welfare and well-beings of the poor and needy people to a farther extent.



The Third-party testimonial :

For your additional information, I have also appear throughout quite a few people in my real lifestyle annoyed by this type of the non-stop eyelid twitching trouble of distinctive prospects to and degrees of severity, and accordingly, I just propose the method as pointed out above to them and within of weeks, they just knowledge significant improvements to their problems shortly after applying this therapy, and shortly after a amount of weeks , they just recover completely from this sickness. .
And I wish that by contributing this product of article to you, it will somehow enable one to in no much lower than receiving a clue about this sickness.



My responses :

Thank you very much for contributing significantly and considerably to such a humanitarian cause. As a matter of fact, I wouldn't have made the related post in the first place about the totally needle-free, totally free-of-charge, painless, harmless, simple & self-administered acupuncture / acupressure method meant for chronic eyelid twitching / eye blinking which involves the "He Gu" acupoint located at the back of one's right palm (please refer to the related diagram added in the related weblink in the related prior post above) if I have not been substantially and positively confident about the effectiveness and efficacies of this needle-free acupuncture / acupressure technique, which in turn have been supported by amply innumerable and ongoing proven empirical evidences of its great curative and therapeutical values. Hence, I hope and wish that the other numerous people who have learnt about the related posts will be kind and benevolent enough to emulate your meritorious and charitable deeds, especially for the sake of the welfare and well-beings of the poor and needy ones.



For further information, please refer to the posts number 32 & 33 on page number 2 of the webpage of another forum as follows :

http://www.asiafinest.com/forum/index.p ... 0&start=20