What is an Eyelid Twitch?
It's actually called Blepharospasm which is a symptom of involuntary and uncontrollable movements in the muscles around a person's eyes which in turn make them appear like 'blinking non-stop' to other people.
In certain cases, this may be caused by myasthenia (muscular weakness) in the eyes organ as a result of stresses, overstraining of the eyes, lacks of sleeps, the serious lacks of certain nutrients / minerals to support the normal functionings / movements of your eyelid
muscles etc.
Next, in the case whereby no stress, any kinds of infections, overstraining of the eyes etc are involved whilst the eyelids and the entire organs just look superficially normal and ok, and at the same time, the eyelid-twitching / eye-blinking just get 'unexplainedly' from bad to worse from time to time, such medical scenarios could actually be caused by other neuromuscular disorders which are much more complicated.
And in terms of such neuromuscular disorders, they may arise as a neurological / Tardive Dyskinesia side effect of certain medications, especially the powerful mind-altering tranquilizers of antipsychotics / neuroleptics, particularly when such medications are over-relied on to the point of sheer abuse.
In such a connection, please consider the following excerpts : -
"Chlorpromazine side effects
Get emergency medical help if you have any of these signs of an allergic reaction: hives; difficulty breathing; swelling of your face, lips, tongue, or throat. Stop taking chlorpromazine and call your doctor at once if you have a serious side effect such as:
twitching or uncontrollable movements of your eyes, lips, tongue, face, arms, or legs;" (Symptoms of Tardive Dyskinesia)
which are quoted from the website :
http://www.drugs.com/mtm/chlorpromazine.html
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thank you for sharing.
y e sudden interest in this topic?
sometimes when guys keep twitching their eyelids, it doesn't mean to send the opposite sex a signal..
juz that they have this uncontrollable symptom..
First of all, thanks for your feedbacks.
Well, as far as the harmful muscle spasms and other neurological disorders arising the harmful neuromuscular / neurological side effects of certain medications are concerned, there have been in fact a great variety of far better medications with greater curative effects and far lesser harmful side effects getting invented from time to time nowadays by the modern medical science in order to overcome this problem.
Nevertheless, the usual current practice of most medical practitioners nowadays are such that they would prefer to prescribe and dispense the inferior and outdated medications to their patients owing to the far lower costs of these medications, and hence the health cares of the patients are getting unfairly exploited and jeopardized in such a scenario.
In this regard, the medication called chlorpromazine mentioned in my very first post is actually one of the examples of the longly outdated first-generation antipsychotic medications that has long been superseded by the other far better second and third-generation antipsychotics ever since decades ago. However, such inferior and outdated medications are still the commonly preferred choices for prescriptions and dispensing of most medical practitioners nowadays.
| Generic Name | Brand Name |
|---|---|
| chlorpromazine | |
| fluphenazine | Prolixin |
| haloperidol | Haldol |
| perphenazine | |
| thioridazine | |
| trifluoperazine | Stelazine |
http://www.webmd.com/schizophrenia/first-generation-antipsychotics-for-treating-schizophrenia
In such a connection, please refer to the website as follows for some overviews of all these first, second and third-generation antipsychotics.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antipsychotics
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