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Post-Treatment => Facial Issues => Topic started by: CROOKEDSMILE on March 08, 2008, 03:55:44 pm

Title: EYE TWITCHING UNDERNEATH BUT STILL CAN'T BLINK.
Post by: CROOKEDSMILE on March 08, 2008, 03:55:44 pm
MY EYE HAS BEEN TWITCHING UNDER THE LID SINCE 3 MONTHS POST OP BUT I AM NOW 8 MONTHS POST OP AND STILL CAN'T BLINK. YOU WOULD THINK WITH IT TWITCHING THAT IT COULD FIGURE OUT WHAT THE HECK TO DO. WHAT DO YOU GUYS THINK ABOUT THIS?
Title: Re: EYE TWITCHING UNDERNEATH BUT STILL CAN'T BLINK.
Post by: nancyann on March 08, 2008, 07:00:53 pm
I think your facial nerve is taking its sweet time getting back to functioning normally.....    Gotta have patience with it Crookedsmile.....
Title: Re: EYE TWITCHING UNDERNEATH BUT STILL CAN'T BLINK.
Post by: 4cm in Pacific Northwest on March 08, 2008, 08:23:29 pm
…Seems to me that facial nerve regeneration is a race for snails…

Signed,

The impatient patient

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Title: Re: EYE TWITCHING UNDERNEATH BUT STILL CAN'T BLINK.
Post by: nancyann on March 09, 2008, 09:57:25 am
Jim Scott has used a phrase ' at glacial speed', which I love (& have used at work).
Title: Re: EYE TWITCHING UNDERNEATH BUT STILL CAN'T BLINK.
Post by: yardtick on March 09, 2008, 05:50:17 pm
I have the twitching underneath my eye also, but I have the tumour on my facial nerve.  Is my nerve dying a slow death?
Title: Re: EYE TWITCHING UNDERNEATH BUT STILL CAN'T BLINK.
Post by: CROOKEDSMILE on March 09, 2008, 06:11:22 pm
Hi Yardtick,
The facial nerve is being stimulated and misfiring due to the compression from the tumor. Once the compression is relieved then the twitching will cease. I had hemifacial spasms due to nerve compression from blood vessels. It caused twitching and this is what the doc. told me. SO......no your nerve is not dying it is being irritated. The facial nerve can take quite a bit of trauma and it... THANK GOD does everything it can to come back once it has been damaged/traumatized. Our bodies are amazing but just not fast or in a hurry like we are at healing us.
Crookedsmile