Tongue Twitches: Seeking Advice

[EyeoftheWild]

I know that many on this board have experienced tongue twitches and I have had the ones that are at the tip of my tongue and below my tongue and I have the ever present pulsing twitch on the side by my teeth. This thing that has been happening for about a week has me freaked out. PLease help- if you have had this I would like to know.
When I was pregnant and having horrible fears I got this tongue spasm after feeling the back of my tongue with the tip- so it was bent backwards in my mouth. After I released it my tongue tightened on the left side and kind of pulled. I did this again and again, and it tightened on that side every time. After that I called my husband and was crying he said not to do it anymore. I didn't. About 3 weeks later I was just walking around and it began to pull on that spot again, and I ran to look at it. I could see the muscle tightening and pulling back towards my throat. I got so scared and once again I freaked. It happened all day long, but didn't happen after that. Well a week ago it seems to have started again. But now I can feel it tightening when I talk, and I stress about it and worry that it is affecting my speech. I find that when it happens I am more anxious. I think it is probably anxiety, but I am always in doubt. I can stick out my tongue and do gymnastics with it- I'm sure that doesn't help, but I know I have no loss of strength. Has anyone felt this? Well, thanks to Basso who has already heard this gripe- Basso, your advice truly helps me, I just wanted to hear from others on the board

 

[MarksmanS]

Hi kateS:

This is my 498th post, 2 more and I have attained a level of beneficence that bestows upon me Sainthood. Right now you are a Member, but soon you will be Interested. For this reason, and the fact that no one else has replied to your hunger for relief; I am branding myself "Basso, Patron Saint of Unanswered Posts." I'm having the medallions made up and will be selling them online soon.

So, what about that tongue? I remember, not too long ago, that DStar wanted to cut hers off. I dissuaded her by telling her that I'm sure her husband likes her tongue, and to perhaps just leave it alone. She concurred stating that she wouldn't want her wonderful hubby to look for a tongue elsewhere.

I remember when I was just a little gaffer and I had to go to confession. Heck, I didn't think that I had even done anything wrong, but off I was shunted to line up with the other sinners. When I got inside the confessional I decided I would just make up something, no doubt I'm not the first, but then I realized that that would be a lie, and then I would have to confess to the priest that I had just fibbed. What a conundrum. Anyway, I had sworn not a few times, so I told that to the tired man on the other side of the curtain. He mumbled something like "what" and so I had to repeat my egregious sin. Upon hearing this he said, in the most calming voice I had heard to that date, "well son, the tongue was made for praising, not for cursing, you must use it to give thanks to our holy Father."

At the time, it made absolutely no impact on me whatsoever. I was just glad to be out of that skinner box so that I could go out and ride my bike around, and curse with my friends.

Now however, I think the padre was right. We must use all of ourselves and particularly our tongue in praise. Not in religious fervor, unless you want to, but in an acknowledgement of our life. We all need to shout out the praise and glory of simply being here, of being able to share our lives with the wonderful people that inhabit it with us. We need to sing more; even off key singing lifts the spirits and heals. Well, maybe not for those in earshot.

Pick the song or hymn that you find the most inspiring, the most affirming, the song that makes you feel connected to the universe. Sing it over and over, or play it over and over; or both. Let that song be your cause célèbre, and I guarantee that your tongue twitch will go away after one week.

Cheers,
Basso

 

[ydav3yat3s]

hi,

i have exact the same (7 month). Always when i flex my tounge i get spasm. it is bfs., my neuro told me.

relax.