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(Message started by: catherinelane on Jul 30^th, 2007, 5:06pm)

Title: tic in eye on cluster side?
Post by catherinelane on Jul 30^th, 2007, 5:06pm

ok im still free of the beast...... but for a few days now on my cluster side iv'e had a tic in my eye... its driving me insane, it just won't stop jumping and flickkering.. is this connected to the clusters or is it something completley different???

Title: Re: tic in eye on cluster side?
Post by Guiseppi on Jul 30^th, 2007, 6:19pm

I've never experienced that, in or out of cycle. Might be your faces way of jumping for joy and saying YAY it's over!!!!

Guiseppi

Title: Re: tic in eye on cluster side?
Post by rolo65 on Jul 30^th, 2007, 7:16pm

I get the eye twitch some times, and a twitching nerve in my inner ear usually right before an attack. I was told it is the muscle in the ear drum that tightens the drum to reduce transfer of loud noises. It drives be batty some times. My therapist says it's from not breathing properly resulting in electrical spikes from my heart telling my brain it needs more O2. I then found if I breathe deeply and regularly for 5 min or so it goes away.

I still get the CH attack though postponed slightly from the controlled breathing I guess.

PFD&N-Roland.

Title: Re: tic in eye on cluster side?
Post by Rosybabe on Jul 30^th, 2007, 8:18pm

I do have that flickering thing on my right eye but I was told it is a nerve that gets excited and jumps of joy ;;D...I asked the Doc and he says is a stress reaction ..a tic and will go away when I am relaxed. I am out of cycle now so I hope it does mean I am having another cycle this year ! :(...

Title: Re: tic in eye on cluster side?
Post by thebbz on Jul 30^th, 2007, 9:23pm

I get the eye twitch and ear popping as well..what a deal. ;) It doesn't bring me to my knees though. ;;D
thebb

Title: Re: tic in eye on cluster side?
Post by Linda_Howell on Jul 30^th, 2007, 9:37pm

Quote:

Might be your faces way of jumping for joy and saying YAY it's over!!!!

lmao...SOME of us look at things in very strange ways. Joe is one of them, and thank God for him.

( After 20 yrs....never had what you are referring to though.)

Title: Re: tic in eye on cluster side?
Post by MR_FLOOR on Jul 30^th, 2007, 9:48pm

I have never experienced it either.

Dave

Title: Re: tic in eye on cluster side?
Post by Redd on Jul 30^th, 2007, 10:11pm

I DO get the twitchy eye on the cluster side. I had some real bad spasms for a few weeks that indicated to me that the beast was trying to break through my defence systems, (see www.clusterbusters.com ) and I nipped the return in the bud/butt (semantics be damed).

It would be too easy to treat us if we all were exactly the same. I wonder if the beast is in cahoots with the medical community in some way to keep everyone guessing.

Just a bad joke...sorry my humor is lacking right now.

Title: Re: tic in eye on cluster side?
Post by George_J on Jul 31^st, 2007, 2:26am

Yeah, I get the eye-twitch thing. Blepherospasm.

Funny thing is, now that I've been cycling once every three years instead of twice a year, I still get it (along with the "neck thing" and the waking up during REM sleep) during my old CH cycles during the spring and fall. It doesn't develop into a full-blown cycle, but the secondary side-effects still show up. If things go according to the way they have, I shouldn't have to worry about an actual cycle until the spring of 2009. But who knows, eh?

Damn thing's been like a clock. Hope it stays that way, and I hope it continues to run down. We'll see.

Best,

George

Title: Re: tic in eye on cluster side?
Post by swimchica623 on Jul 31^st, 2007, 7:22am

Do you drink more caffeine when in cycle than normal? That can trigger those twitches for anyone, and it could be flat out coincidence that it is in your hit side, or just because that side is far more stressed out or something like that.
Lisa

Title: Re: tic in eye on cluster side?
Post by billyjoe on Jul 31^st, 2007, 9:19am

Now that you mention it, I had the eye twitch on my CH side prior to this cycle. I remember asking my eye doctor about it. Never put it together and not sure of the timing. It may have ended prior to the start of the cycle. I'll be watching for it next time.

Title: Re: tic in eye on cluster side?
Post by catherinelane on Jul 31^st, 2007, 12:22pm

omg goes into panic now!!!!! hope cycle isn't looming........... but i drink quite a bit of the ol red bull out of cycle because it cures my travel sickness too perhaps its an adverse reaction to that (hopes)

Title: Re: tic in eye on cluster side?
Post by LeLimey on Jul 31^st, 2007, 2:56pm

I get that tic thing all the time - dailyin fact and it drives me flippin' nuts! I wouldn't worry about it Catherine, its very annoying but when I mentioned it to my neuro he said it's nothing to worry about - just a short circuit (as he put it!

I'm so glad to hear you are still pain free - Way to go girl!

Helen