Posted by: Delaine Inman ®
01/06/2003, 18:50:14
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Have you not been getting Botox under your eyes? As far as the quivering I've had it come and go. It's probably different for everyone. I had an upper partial myectomy and I've always received injections under my eyes because all the muscles around my eyes squeeze and spasm.
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Posted by: June in Toronto ®
01/06/2003, 19:50:02
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I've always had injections right around my eyelids - both upper and lower, Kelly. The spasm I experience also take in the whole upper and lower lid area. I'm surprised if you don't have injections on the lower lids!June in Toronto
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Posted by: Jeannie Day ®
01/06/2003, 19:55:51
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When I went to the BEBRF Conference in St. Louis, I asked Dr. Anderson after one of the sessions to look at the twiching under my right eye. He called it a focal myoclonus that was of no danger of becoming anything else. I just now looked up "myoclonus" and it seems that it is a broad term. Evidently, the one Dr. Anderson referred to was "segmental: only one segment of the body affected." This may or may not be the same symptom as yours. The twitching is not on the lower lid, but on the upper cheek close to the lid.Jeannie
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Posted by: Ann Doyle ®
01/07/2003, 07:27:52
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Same with me Jeannie. I always presumed that was part of the Meige. I get shots there too. Ann Doyle
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Posted by: Virginia ®
01/06/2003, 20:33:50
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I don't have the quivering feeling, but I do have the "drawn up" look on the "nose side" of my lower lids. I have had an upper eyelid limited myectomy, but do still need botox, particularly in the lower lid. The obvious answer is "Ask your doctor," but it wouldn't surprise me if Botox would help it.I do have a twitch in the outer corner of one eyelid just below my eyebrow. I can see it and feel it, but it doesn't really bother me. I don't get that tight, squeezing feeling with it. It comes and goes and I don't have injections there. Virginia in AL
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Posted by: Kelly Saffell ®
01/07/2003, 07:08:57
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Thanks everyone. I get injections under the eye at the bridge of my nose and again at the upper cheek but I do not get them directly into the lower lid and have never needed them there until now. The muscle is not squeezing, just quivering but I do think botox would alleviate it since it is annoying. I see my doc in a few weeks and will ask - plus I will ask the doc at my support group meeting the weekend before my appt.
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Posted by: Ann Doyle ®
01/07/2003, 07:30:34
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I think it's a good idea to tell your DR. and you can work together. I always tell mine where it is worse and what hurts. Ann Doyle
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Posted by: Shirley-Arkansas-USA ®
01/07/2003, 10:53:13
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I've had that same lower lid quivering that you are talking about. I could feel it but it wasn't painful or uncomfortable-just annoying. It hasn't happened in awhile but I get injections in my lower lids so that has probably taken care of it. My lower lid injections are given given fairly close to the lash line(probably a quarter inch away).
You can look in the mirror and see the muscle quiver.Shirley in Arkansas
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Posted by: Christel-California ®
01/07/2003, 13:08:09
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I have had this lower lid quivering on and off most of my life, not very often and it never lasted very long, but it was annoying and I too could see the movement ever so slightly, when looking in the mirror.Strangely enough, I haven't had it since I've had this disease, as June likes to call it, and it's been now about 8 years. I'm not on Botox. Christel in Ca. who would rather quiver than spazz
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Posted by: Ann Doyle ®
01/07/2003, 07:34:51
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I felt great after my hysterectomy. I did need KY jelly for dryness afterward though. Ann Doyle
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