Stop Facial Twitching Effects

[smallsarah]

Body wide twitching I am used to after, I guess 9 years now, but the facial stuff - Left eye has been twitching for months almost daily - every few seconds and for the last 4 days straight and now the right one is also every few seconds. I have been up all night. I am not worried anything serious is wrong. I just cannot continue to live like this. For something benign, it has really messed up my quality of life. . The no sleeping just can't go on. I have to get a doctor to care enough to try something to help me. I don't know where I will find this person. I have certainly tried. I am so tired and discouraged. Just a little rest. Is that too much to ask?
Shirley

 

[constance41]

smallsarah, hi I am going through the same thing. i dont know your story so if i suggest anything you have already tried i am sorry. try to see a pyaciatrist to get u on some sleep aids, this may help. I am on remeron and serquel. it helps me sleep. sorry to here your not feeling well.hope u get better

 

[smallsarah]

Thanks Klag for caring enough to respond. I am sorry you are feeling as miserable and frustrated as I am, but I do feel less alone. There is in my life no one to talk to. I have a 17 year old daughter I can't burden, no husband, no significant other, no family left since my parents both died in the last year. My gp insists on an anxiety disorder and will not help, but sent me to a psychiatrist. No one seems to understand that I am depressed because of the constant twitching, no sleep and exhaustion. I do need to find someone willing to address the cause and in all these years I have not. My daughter has only 1 more year of high school and then I will be completely alone. This concerns me because sometimes I find myself in a very dark place emotionally.

Shirley

 

[constance41]

blave, go and find a counciler not a phyc. they are better and will spend more time with u and not just push drugs but actually teach u coping skills. this is what i am going to do also. pm me anytime u like to talk. i know how fustrating this is i am at my wits end also. but pm me when u feel down , i am as messed up as anyone else here , but i will offer what i can to support u.

 

[ydav3yat3s]

I don't disagree with Klag, but I recently saw a psychiatrist for the first time--specifically chose one over a counselor because of their medical training and ability to prescribe drugs--and I feel it was a good experience. He listened a lot, and did end up prescribing a low dose SSRI, which has helped me with my anxiety quite a bit with almost no noticeable side effects. I would think seeing both would be the best of both worlds, so to speak, but don't discount the drugs. In less than a week I'm turned around and going in the right direction, I think probably a lot faster than counseling would have done. Already my tongue twitches have lessened, no doubt due to the lessening of the anxiety and self-examination/hyper-awareness. I'm not saying drugs are the right choice--only that I'm better off now than I was a week ago.

 

[skepticpalooza]

There is a fairly well established literature that the highest odds of beating depression or anxiety is through a combination of counseling/talk therapy and antidepressant drugs. How antidepressants affect twitching in people who already have twitches is something I've never read a scientific study about. As DaveY mentions, antidepressants can really help to get you started on the road to recovery and enable you to find the energy to go to counseling, do things you enjoy, etc. helping to create a virtuous cycle.