﻿If you're experiencing eyelid twitch right now, also known as Myokymia,
then no doubt you're feeling annoyed right now about it.
And you may be also concerned about
whether this is the symptom of something more serious.
In this video will cover that and also
give you some tips that have been helpful to my patients over the years.
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So you've got this eyelid twitch.
What's going on and what does it mean?
Well, twitching eyelid can occur in your top or your lower eyelid.
And it's something that in my clinic I've seen very often over the years.
And in fact, it's something that I've had myself on several occasions.
So for the first piece of my point that I
want to reassure you with, it's the fact that eyelid twitches are very common.
In most cases of eyelid twitches can be categorised as myokymia,
which I think is a name that sounds quite dramatic and often scary as well.
But Myokymia really is a broad medical
name given to mild involuntary contractions of muscles.
So it's possible to experience facial myokymia as well as limp myokymia.
So second peace of mind point that I
want you to take away a results from the fact that Myokymia is also
categorized or classed as being a self limiting, and this means that no treatment
or surgery is necessary because it usually goes away of its own accord over time.
And in my experience, this usually takes several weeks to go away.
But ideally, obviously,
you want to do what you can to reduce it as quickly as possible.
And let me know in the comments section
below how long you've had your eyelid twitch for?
And in my experience, usually lasts for about three weeks or so.
As I've said before.
But let me know if that's been your experience so far.
So it actually causes eyelid, which is what is one of these conditions
that is not very well understood as to what the cause may be.
However, the thinking is that it is related to tiredness and stress levels.
And certainly my clinical experience,
most people who come to see me reporting eyelid myokymia will usually confirm that one
way or another they've been going through something that's very stressful in their
life of a recent or they perhaps lost quite a lot of sleep as well.
So certainly the times that I've been
experiencing myokymia myself have been usually times where
we lost a lot of sleep because of deadlines and things like that,
or back in my student days during exam preparation times.
And, you know, you kind of pull all nights and things like that.
Certainly, I find is quite common
in students as well as. If eyelid twitch
has been persistent for more than
several weeks to a few months, then this may be something that we call
Blepharospasm which is a spasm of the eyelid,
which may be more nerve related, and this needs a bit more medical investigation.
So it's definitely worth getting eye examination for this
just because it may require some other medical intervention, possibly even Botox,
for example, just to stop the eyelids spasming when it comes to helping eyelid
myokymia to move along and resolve a lot quicker.
And people often say, you know,
you should relax, but that probably stresses you out more if
you're somebody who is, you know, having problems with relaxation and stress.
Here are some tips to help you distress
and to speed up how long it takes for your twitching to stop.
So, first of all, is to plan eight hours sleep and you probably haven't had that.
And things like having power naps
and making sure that your room is blacked out when you sleep, planning two to three
nights of, you know, early nights if you can't regularly get early night's sleep.
You know, one of the things I find is
that with the kind of stress and the lack of sleep, it's a cumulative effect.
So it builds up over time,
so because people who experience these
eyelid twitches have been experiencing a build up of a lack of sleep or buildup
of stress, then that tends to be where the problem is.
So if you can somehow break that vicious
cycle, perhaps by including and introducing two or three early nights in a week.
So if you can't do you know,
every week going to bed early, then, you know, scheduling two or three nights,
you can go to sleep about nine o'clock or whatever the case may be.
And you get a good lengthy sleep
that really has, you know, plays a big role in being able
to break down this vicious cycle and this cumulative build up of stress and sleep
deprivation, which leads to these eyelid twitches.
Secondly, cutting out stimulants as much as possible.
So that means that coffee, Redbull other energy drinks.
So even just for a few weeks, you know, a week or two,
whatever the case may be, just so you have a period where you almost
detox just to allow yourself to be free of these kind of stimulants.
You also find that then helps you sleep
better and may also help your stress levels as well.
And then sugar for a period of time as
well, just to help with the whole kind of stimulated state with sugar highs, etc.
that will also play.
An important part and then finally is
to engage in at least 30 minutes of vigorous exercise,
a couple of days a week, if not, you know, on a regular basis,
then that just helps to kind of detoxify the body and just helps to kind of remove
some of those stress hormones and help you to sleep better get your energy levels up,
which then also helps you feel a bit more positive overall.
And in my experience,
I found that people doing these simple things really can play an important part
in helping you to get rid of the eyelid twitches a lot faster.
And let me know in the comments section below,
do you feel that stress is playing a part in your eyelid twitches?
You know, are you getting plenty of sleep?
Are you under work stress at the moment?
Are you a student and going through an exam preparation and things like that?
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