eye twitcing

[debbiecakes]

For about 9 months now I have been experiencing twitching in my right eye. It does this all day long, it will last for a few minutes at a time.  Then a couple of days ago my left check started twitching.  I had a complete physical in Febuary and everything came back O.K.. What could this be caused by? Should I wait for my next physical or go ahead and see the doctor now?
Thanks Debbie

[Tanzingo]

This is my first time on a site like this. I have had twitching underneath my left eye for the past two days. I can say that it is almost definitely a mental thing b/c when I am in social situaions that cause me more stress than others, I feel it twiching more often.

Is there anything I can do to make it go away!! It's really frustrating.

Thank you.

[kyme]

i have had a twitch in my left eye just in the corner for the past five months it is affecting my sight when it happens,i only have the left eye as i lost my right eye  many years ago.
i have not seen a specialist yet also i am not under any stress or have any medical problems can you help or do i need to see a specialist

[DWE]

I have had a history of back and leg pain since 1997. I had surgery in the Spring of 1998 (after nerve root blocks and other conservative measures). I had surgery for L-5 & S-1 spondylolisthesis (pedicle screw implanatation, laminectomy, and fusion) In the fall of 2000 I started to have the same buttock pain and radiation down the RT leg (tremendous after walking 5 minutes or standing for more than 2 minutes---and I am use to walking 3 miles daily). It was determined that I had a herniated disk and had surgery to trim the disk. I was okay until it started to flare up in May 2001. It is the same excrutiating pain that radiates from my RT buttock area to my RT hip and down the same leg and stops around by posterior knee area. I have finished oral steroids (decadron), and had 2 epidural steroid injections with no relief. I was given a medrol dose pack and tried that for one week. This seemed to help releive the symtoms temporarily. I was given a daily maintenance of medrol for 30 days. With this the pain is starting to appear again in the buttock area and radiating down the Rt. outer leg to the knee area. The pain is worse when I stand for ore than 4 minutes or walk for 15 minutes. My Neurosurgeon says that there is no disk involved (per MRI- with and without contrast) and suspects that it may be scarred tissue. He currently tells me that I need to go to the pain center for mmore injections.I have been through so many of these and feel that I am not getting the answers that I need.

Could you offer any suggestions please ?

Thank you
D

[CCF-Neuro-M.D.-JT]

Your symptoms sound like a neurological problem called a movement disorder. There are many types of movement disorders, but those that are limited to the face include 1.hemifacial spasm, which is a series of rapid, repetitive spasms of one side of the face (your symptoms are BOTH sides)
2.blepharospasm-repetitive involuntary eyeblinking (both eyes involved)
3.facial myoclonus seen in systemic diseases like Whipple's disease (rare)
4.myokymia of the face, which is a persistent quivering of the muscles that can be due to a lesion in the brainstem like a tumor or multiple sclerosis

You definitely need to see a neurologist. I would ask for a referral from your PCP now rather than wait till your next physical. Second, you will likely need an MRI of the brain with contrast just to make sure nothing up there is causing the symptoms. Third, a facial EMG may be necessary depending on the neurologist. This needs to be done by an experienced neurologist who was well trained in EMG or a major medical center.
Hope that helps. Best of luck.