Every so often I get these uncontrolable muscle twitches, typically in my eye/eyelids. It's not a tick or anything I have ANY bit of control over. If it's not too bad, I can take some Ativan which seems to help a bit, but that is obviously only a temporary fix and the twitches (more often than not) will come back the next day. Once, when I was having a longer period of very high anxiety/PTSD symptoms, I started getting these spasms all over my body.

When it is bad, I get VERY self-conscious, and once even went into work with sunglasses for a week and told everyone that I had conjunctivitis--(like that is any better).

I have discussed this with my doctors, but they never really have any good suggestions. (Once I was told that it was due to a lack of potassium from not eating, even though I WAS eating and had not had an eating disorder for years.) I was also told that I could get Botox injections to freeze the muscles, but it may not work or I may then get twitches in other parts of my body. (Yeah, and I wasn't exactly thrilled with the idea of having one of those frozen Joan-Rivers-type faces.)

So the twitches are back once again. I've been fighting them for a couple of weeks, and so far they haven't been too bad. But, for one thing, I'm afraid they will get worse (which often happens), and the other issue is that I have a date tomorrow and I don't want him to notice and think I'm a total freak.

If anybody else tends to have these and know something that works to stop them, please let me know.

Thanks,
Nic