Medication-induced Non-stop Eyelid-twitching - My Experience Posted: 02-08-08 22:34pm
Medication-induced Non-stop Persistent
Eyelid-twitching - How I Eventually Get It
Totally Cured By Acupuncture & Other
Medical Details
Note : The following article is only meant
as a reference material to the intended
recipients and advices should be sought
from the medical experts to establish the
authenticity of its contents. For your
information, I get this sickness while
living abroad indirectly from depression
(Schizophrenia) through subsequent allergy
and overdosage of the related-medications
(Risperdal)and I hope that the information
given below will be useful to the intended
readers.
Non-stop eyelid twitching, which is lately
referred to as Blepharospasm or Myokymia
is actually 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.
Generally, the movements of one's muscle
is controlled by the nerves around them
that in turn receive signals from the
brains which ultimately dictate the
variety of 'ways' in which such movements
are to be conducted based on a person's
will.
The causes of such non-stop
eyelid-twitching symptom in most common
cases may just due to short-term stress,
over-tiredness, over-straining of one's
eyes, occasional anxiety, temporary panic
fits and nervousness which in turn can be
easily relieved and recover naturally by a
good rest, more relaxation and trying to
calm oneself down to stop getting anxious,
panic and worried and stressful over
certain things. In this regard, such
phenomena tend to be quite common among
certain students and other professionals.
However, in the cases of a persistent
uncontrollable non-stop twitchings of the
eyelids which only get aggravated rather
than improved over time and last for
months and even years, it may just
probably imply that the nerves around the
eyes organ are simply not 'properly
functionable' enough to bring about the
desired movements of the muscles based on
the mental instructions from the brains of
a person.
Except for any brain and other eye muscle
damages/eye muscle disorders caused by
permanent lack of certain nutrients and
minerals etc or other irritations to that
organ like dry eyes, sore eyes, bacteria
infections etc, such a chronic
eyelid-twitching sickness may likely be
caused by certain disturbances and
disorders that affect or weaken the
functionality of the nerves around the
eyes to bring about the desired movements
of this organ based on the person's will.
In this regard, the possible reasons of
such chronic non-stop eyelid-twitching
sickness may probably due to the causes as
mentioned above which is experienced by a
person over a considerably long period of
time rather than just temporarily. Apart
from that, other likely causes maybe be
certain traumas, especially the emotional
ones, allergy to or overdosage of certain
medications that carry such side effects
as muscle spasms, particularly photophobia
in the case of non-stop eyelid-twitching
symptom.
In fact, I myself have also been suffering
from such a sickness due to allergy and
overdosage to such medications like
Risperdal and other similar drugs (of
which I have stopped taking and replaced
with something else so as not to further
worsen the non-stop eyelid-twitching
problem and to prevent a relapse of that
sickness after I get healed). As such, I
would very much like to share my own
genuine personal experience with you over
the course of my treatment of such a
sickness and I hope that it will somehow
be helpful to a certain extent especially
to those who have been having the similar
experience as mine and I would to
emphasize that it again only is meant as a
reference material to anyone reading it.
For your information, I have been
suffering from this sickness in the past
few years whereby my eyelids also tend to
twitch both continuously and
uncontrollably without me being able to do
anything to control the twitchings at all.
As a result, my eyes would seem like
blinking all the while to anyone who looks
at me and I totally could not drive, look
directly and persistently at the pc or tv
screens and most of the times, I simply
can’t read any books or newspaper
properly.
And I have sought lots of medical
treatments and advices as well as apply
various kinds of eyedrops, taking various
types of vitamins, mineral pills as well
as many types of anti-muscle spasm
medications from lots of eye specialists,
neurosurgeons and psychiatrists (who
explain the medical theories mentioned
above to me), ENT specialists and other
general practitioners, and even have the
MRI examinations taken to get my eyes
cured , but these efforts turn out to be
in vain as they fail to yield any positive
results and my eyes still keep on blinking
non-stop.
Luckily, just about a year after I suffer
from such a sickness, I come across an
acupuncture expert who studied and
observed closely about my problems and
then administer a therapy needle on the
part of the flesh at the back of the palm
which is about 1.5 cm (applicable only to
average grown adults) vertically from the
point of intersection (that would appear
visibly when the fingers are closed
loosely together) between my thumb and my
forefinger of my right hand (as per
illustration in ht
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chmentfilesn4.gif ) to strengthen the
weakened and sensitive nerves around my
eyes. After that, he just ask me to press
(using just mild force) onto the surface
of that acupuncture point using such
objects like toothpick /normal writing pen
(which is out of ink of course) or
anything with a blunt-pointed end for at
least 2 hours a day and then consistently
for about 2 months. Kindly take note that
this point is located at a much 'fleshy'
instead of a much 'boney' area - perhaps
you would need to briefly explore that
part of your right hand at the same time
to locate that point, and I hope you will
understand that the hand structures of
each person differ from one another.
Having done that persistently based on his
order, my non-stop eyelid-twitching that
makes my eyes blinking all the while just
totally recover in time and I can drive,
work with the pc screens, watch tv, movies
and read as well as work like any other
normal persons. Besides, actually before I
decided to seek acupuncture treatment (as
recommended by my friends) to deal with
this sickness, I did accept the suggestion
of a neurosurgeon to take Botox
injections to deal with the problematic
eyelid-muscles that caused all the
twitchings. Next, the Botox injections, in
fact did give positive results in the
first place whereby my eyelids just didn't
twitch that violently after being given
the injections.
However, upon knowing from the
neurosurgeon that Botox injections was
actually not an effective cure for this
non-stop eyelid-twitching sickness, for
the very reason that the medications would
just serve to sort of 'half-paralyse' the
eyelid muscles without being able to do
anything curative to the problematic
nerves around the non-stop twitching eye
muscles, coupled with the fact that such
Botox medications would tend to get
immunized by the human body, it would just
mean that larger and larger quantities of
such medications would be required for
each subsequent injection therapy (which
last for 3-6 months each) in order to
achieve the similar healing effect of the
previous ones.
Besides, it was also actually a very
expensive therapy as it would cost me
about 5,000 dollars for each injection
therapy session and hence, to keep on
spending such huge sums of money to stop
my eyelids from twitching would just be
very unreasonable.
Whilst the neurosurgeon mentioned to me
also about a surgical treatment to
effectively cure the non-stop
eyelid-twitching, the operation, apart
from being very costly, was also actually
a very risky one as its failure may very
well bring blindness to the persons being
operated. At the same time, even such
surgery were to turn out to be successful,
it would also be unable to achieve 100%
complete healing to anyone being operated
in the sense that the eyelid-twitching
conditions can never 'look perfectly
normal' like the ones who were totally not
troubled by such a sickness at all. So, I
just eventually gave up the idea of
getting a surgery to treat the sickness.
For your further information, I have also
come across quite a couple of people in my
real life annoyed by such a non-stop
eyelid-twitching problem of different
causes and degrees of severity, and
accordingly, I just recommend the method
as mentioned above to them and within
weeks, they just experience significant
improvements to their conditions after
applying this therapy, and after a few
months , they just recover totally from
this sickness. . And I hope that by
contributing this piece of article to you,
it will somehow help you to in at least
getting a clue about this sickness.
Lastly, I sincerely wish that the ones
troubled by such an annoying non-stop
eyelid-twitching sickness can recover
finally from their illness. Thank you.
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eowc
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Suggested Acupuncture Cure For Non-stop Eyelid-twitching Posted: 02-12-08 04:53am
Eyecare / Hemifacial Spasm : Suggested
Acupuncture Cure For Non-stop
Eyelid-twitching - Further Descriptions
& Extra Details
Note: The following is only meant as
reference materials to the intended
readers.
This is meant as a follow-up to give you
some additional details about the
acupuncture technique I have mentioned to
you before. Well, regarding the
acupuncture point I have mentioned in my
prior articles for the suggested cure for
non-stop eyelid-twitching, its exact
location is at the back of the palm of
one's right hand, which is 1.5 cm
(applicable to the average grown adults
only) measured vertically from the point
of intersection (that would appear visibly
when the fingers are closed loosely
together) between the thumb and the
forefinger. (Kindly take note that this
point is located at a much 'fleshy'
instead of a much 'boney' area - perhaps
you would need to briefly explore that
part of your right hand at the same time
to locate that point, and I hope you will
understand that the hand structures of
each person differ from one another).
When the acupuncture point is identified
and marked accordingly, you can then
re-open your hand , and then what you all
can do is to sit down, and at the same
time press onto the surface of that
acupuncture point (using just mild force)
with any long blunt-pointed object such as
toothpick, a normal writing pen (which is
out of ink of course) etc against your
chin (suggested for convenience purpose)
for a continuous 2 hours, and it's
preferably to do that when you are about
to go to sleep at night (so that you have
more free time to do it). However , if you
are eager to find out the very exact
location of that particular acupuncture
point to further verify the information
given above, I would suggest you to seek
consultancy from a licensed acupuncturist.
In this regard, based on the
acupuncturist, the blunt-pointed objects
such as normal writing pen (which is
out-of-ink of course) etc instructed to me
for such self-administred therapy is
actually intended as a substitute for the
acupuncture needle to deal effectively
with the particular acupuncture point.
Unlike the other traditional method of
acupressure which involves the use of
fingers to press and massage the
acupuncture points, the use of
blunt-pointed object in such a case for
the treatment of chronic eyelid-twtiching
is actually meant as a 'leverage' to
provide an adequately focused and hence a
'reflexology stimulus' that is strong
enough to deal more precisely and
effectively with that acupuncture point.
Whereas, if that acupuncture point is to
be treated with fingers, the stimulus
effect generated would be very much
smaller due to the fact that such
pressings and massagings would reasonably
not last long enough to provide any
reliefs for the chronic eyelid-twitching.
Besides, given the larger suface area of
the fingers as well as their rounded
physical shape (compared to the
blunt-pointed objects), a large part of
the forces produced from such pressings
and massagings would then be reasonably
applied onto the related muscles rather
than directly onto the intended nerves
through the related acupuncture point to
deal effectively with such sickness.
Please be reminded that a good sleep at
night throughout the therapy period is
essential for the healing to be
effectively done. And a person shouldn't
associate oneself again with the
underlying causes such as over-straining
of the eyes, excessive cafeine intake,
allergy/overdosage of certain medication
(with muscle spasms side effects) that
causes this non-stop eyelid-twitching to
the particular person in the first place
to avoid a relapse of that sickness,
especially after getting cured from it.
About the acupuncture cure suggested
above, since I am not belonging to the
medical field or an acupuncturist myself,
I thus would not know whether such an
acupuncture technique would actually work
in the case of genetical eyelid-twitching
sickness, and honestly speaking, out of so
many people to whom I have personally
recommended that acupuncture treatment, I
have not yet come across any of such cases
before. Nevertheless, I am pretty sure
that most of the people with non-stop
eyelid-twitching problems actually get
this sickness from other post-birth causes
rather than genetically, and I believe
that once the acupuncture point is clearly
identitified, the recommended technique
would work effectively to provide reliefs
to the ones suffer from post-birth
causes-induced non-stop eyelid-twitching
sickness.
Another thing is that since the ones to
whom I have personally recommended such
acupuncture treatment for the treatment of
non-stop eyelid-twitching sickness are
actually all grown adults, the "1.5 cm
measure" mentioned in these articles
mentioned above would thus definitely not
be applicable to the young children whose
hand structures are naturally very much
smaller. Next, given that the skin
textures of small children tend to be very
much delicate and tender, and hence more
fragile than that of the adults, they thus
should definitely be attented to by the
licensed acupuncturists to deal with their
eyelid-twitching problems in the case
where they choose this choice of therapy
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eowc
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My Subsequent Experience With Seroquel After Quiting Risperdal Posted: 02-28-08 23:44pm
My Subsequent Experience With Seroquel
After Quiting Risperdal
Note: Advices from medical expert should
be sought to establish the authenticity of
the following information which is meant
as reference materials for the intended
readers.
When I switched from Risperdal to Seroquel
for the treatment of my Schizophrenia
sickness, apart from enabling me to avoid
a relapse of the non-stop eyelid-twitching
sickness after I get totally cured from it
through acupuncture treatment, it helped
me also to a very great extent to enable
me to have a very good sleep at night. But
when I was at work and hence had to
refrain myself from taking such medicine
so as not to let its drowsiness effect
affect my work performance, I just became
quite irritable without any known causes
or reasons. And over time, I simply needed
such medication to help me sleep at night,
and to stop becoming irritable or get
angry/frustrated very easily without any
reasons.
About one and a half years ago, I was
advised by a pyschiatrist that it was
possible for a person to quit Seroquel and
then lead a very normal life just like
other persons. However, it would take a
very strong determination and a great deal
of emotional as well as counselling
/communication support from the other
people to achieve that goal.
For the sleeping issue, one would need to
cut down the dosage of the Seroquel drug
progressively over a reasonable stretch of
time, such as starting from 200mg to 100
mg , and then 2-3 weeks later from 100 mg
to 50 mg and finally to physically break
up the tablet into separate parts to
achieve a much lower dosage to finally
reduce and then totally quit the intake of
such medication for the particular person.
However, since a progressively lower
intake of Seroquel dosage would definitely
cause difficulties of sleeping to the
particular persons, he/she would then need
to put in certain extra efforts on their
own, such as doing some exercise a few
hours ago to get oneself tired before
sleeping, reading some really boring
novels /watching some really boring TV
programmes or even listening to some
sentimental/ sleep-inducing musics before
getting to sleep.
Next, since Seroquel is meant for the
treatment of such sicknesses as bipolar
disorders, Schizophrenia symptoms etc, it
certainly has its own medicational values
as an anti-psychotic drug. Hence, to
effectively reduce and eventually quit the
intake of Seroquel in order to enable a
person to stop becoming irritable due to
its addiction whilst at the same time to
prevent the mental sicknesses mentioned
above from getting worse due to decreased
intake or eventual quiting of such
medication, one would need to reach out
more to and have more communications and
interactions with other people around
them, especially the close kin to seek
more emotional support, increased
fellowships and in some cases, get
involved in more social/ religious
gatherings /indoor/outdoor activities,
engage oneself in a hobby/ meaningful
activities for each one has deep interest
in such as drawing, doing other sports
etc, and obtain more conselling advices
from the trained counsellors in order to
improve the sanity /state of mental
condition of the patient.
As far as my own experience is concerned a
cheerful and contented attitude to life as
well as a balanced approach of living a
healthy life are conducive to developing a
greater sanity and sounder state of mind
for any patients troubled with any mental
sickness. And I hope that my suggestions
will be useful to you.
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eowc
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Follow-up : Further Medical References Posted: 02-28-08 23:49pm
Follow-up : Further Medical References
Please refer to the following weblinks for
further information about the related
medications & acupuncture point
mentioned in the articles above :
In the first place, I would consider
myself really fortunate enough to
eventually get totally cured from such an
abnormal eyelid twitching sickness which
is a symptom of Tardive Dyskinesia caused
by prolonged intake of Risperdal.
I don't know really much about the levels
of compliance for the established medical
ethics for the modern western countries of
U.S and other European nations, but as for
the country that I live in, which is not
as modern or developed, such an issue
tends to be ignored by the related medical
personnel. To be really frank with you,
the psychiatrist who prescribes Risperdal
to me in the very first place just
dispenses this medication to me more as a
mere 'routine' each time I visit his
practice and he has actually never
notified to me the underlying side effects
of such medication when it is taken for
the long-term. And even when observing my
abnormal eyelid twitching symptom that
appears to be more and more obvious to
him, he also choose to ignore it and just
keep asking me to continue taking the
medication.
For your further information, Tardive
Dyskinesia syndrome tends to be a rare
medical term which is rather unfamiliar to
most of the medical personnel in my home
country. As such, initially when I sought
treatment for my abnormal eyelid
twitching, most of the normal medical
specialists actually failed to associate
such a symptom with the Risperdal drug
that I had been taking. In the end, I
found the right medical experts who had
informed knowledge of my conditions in the
expensive private medical centres and
honestly speaking, the medical details
that I included in my articles were
actually told by them during my numerous
visits to their practices.
Whilst by the time I have totally
recovered from such a sickness, I resume
my work in my former firm and at the same
time I also undertake a committment as a
part-time social worker for my religious
body with the main duty of providing
counselling services to the in-patients of
certain psychiatric wards and dwellers of
certain special-care nursing homes.
Similarly, most of the doctors-in-charge
of these facilities, based on my
interviews with them, also tend to be very
much ignorant about the adverse side
effects of such anti-psychotic drugs, and
as a result, the persons taking such
medications would tend to be the ones
suffer unknowingly from their potential
side effects. For this reason, I thus feel
that the welfare of these people has been
rather 'unintentionally neglected'.
As such, by posting these articles over
the net, I just hope that I could promote
a higher level of self-awareness among the
existing persons taking such
anti-psychotic drugs about such syndrome
of Tardive Dyskinesia and the need to take
the necessary precautions against it.
Thank you.
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eowc
Experienced User , Rather EHEALTHy
Joined: 02 Jan 2008 Posts: 64
Note of Thanks Posted: 03-23-08 02:44am
Note of Thanks
First of all, thank you for being kind
enough to allow me to post these articles
in your website.
As far as the anti-psychotic drugs and
other related medications which carry such
inherent side effects as Tardive
Dyskinesia are concerned, I am actually in
the opinion that appropriate levels of
professional care and discretion should be
exercised by the related medical personnel
when prescribing and dispensing such
medications so that the medical well-being
of the related patients can be duly taken
of effectively.
In this regard, I am pretty sure that the
physicians of the related fields in such
countries as United States and other
technologically advanced European nations
are appropriately eligible and duly
conscientious enough to fulfill such a
requirement in carrying out such a
demanding task.
Unfortunately, such an expected ideal
scenario has never been the case in my
home country as well as other nations
which are not as modern and developed.
For your information, the related patients
in my home country have also the necessary
access to the similar neuroleptic,
anti-psychotic and other related drugs
like these modern nations for the
treatment of their related sicknesses.
Unfortunately, due to the lack of
knowledge of the potential side effects of
such medications on the part of the
patients as well as the failure of certain
related medical personnel to duly exercise
the essential professional duty of care
and other required precautionary measures
to safeguard the medical interest of these
patients, because of both negligence and
sheer ignorance, such category of persons,
especially the young children getting such
related treatments would tend to be the
ones who suffer unknowingly, silently and
helplessly from the side effects of such
medications in the end.
In such a connection, being a social
worker dealing with such category of
persons and given the fact that
humanitarian principles are the priorities
of my religious body and any other
charity organisations, I thus feel that I
am vested with a responsibility to do my
part to promote a higher level of
consciousness of such Tardive Dyskinesia
syndrome among the related persons so that
the unwanted saddening disasters and
misfortunes can be effectively avoided
whilst the sorry plight of the existing
victims of the side effects of such
medications mentioned above can be finally
relieved.
Lastly, I would like to express my
heartfelt thankfulness for your kind and
generous support for such a cause. Thank
you very much.
With all due respect, in regard of the
phenomena explained in my prior message, I
would like to highlight to you that the
young children in my home country would
always tend to be the ones who suffer most
innocently and painfully from the ordeals
of the bodily-damaging side effects of
such Tardive Dyskinesia syndrome owing to
their much more vulnerable physical
conditions and weaker immune system.
Based on what I have observed so far, such
children would eventually tend to have a
very much lower self-esteem and in most
cases, lead an underprivileged life
getting alienated by their peers due to
their 'funny looks'. In other words, their
lives are basically ruined permanently by
the time they get such a sickness.
While their parents, especially the
mothers would always tend to immerse
themselves in deep anxieties and grave
sorrows worrying from time to time about
the 'undiagnosed conditions' of their
children as well as their unpromising
future whilst at the same time simply do
not even have a clue of what exactly is
going on.
Therefore, I would like to make an appeal
and imploration to the related parties to
have the necessary mercy and sympathy on
humanitarian ground for the sorry plight
of these people in the hope of putting an
end to such tragedies and misfortunes.
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Human Reactions Towards Tardive Dyskinesia Syndrome Posted: 04-11-08 07:40am
Human Reactions Towards Tardive Dyskinesia
Syndrome - Children Vs Adult
Kindly take note that Tardive Dyskinesia
syndrome may affect the movements of other
parts of human body too. In this case, I
really sympathize those small kids and
other young children of my home country
who tend to suffer from all other symptoms
of Tardive Dyskinesia syndrome on other
parts of their bodies apart from the
facial muscles.
For your information, based on my
observations so far, the symptoms of
Tardive Dyskinesia would mostly manifest
almost immediately among such young
children after their intake of 1 to 2
weeks' dosage of the related medications
that carry the inherent side effects of
Tardive Dyskinesia (Please refer to the
weblinks included below for further
details about the Tardive Dyskinesia
syndrome and the list of such medications
often prescribed to children).
Given their much more delicate and tiny
physique as well as weaker immune system,
they are thus far more medically
susceptible to the bodily-damaging side
effects of such Tardive Dyskinesia-related
medications compared to the adults who
naturally and reasonably have a far higher
level of bodily tolerance and resistance
for the side effects of such medications,
and that is the reason why the latter
could take such medications for a much
longer period of time whilst at the same
time running a lower risk of suffering
from their side effects.
Whilst in terms of treatment for such
Tardive Dyskinesia symptoms among the
young children, given that they are
naturally disadvantaged by their tiny and
yet fragile infected bodily parts, these
category of persons, even when they are
fully accessible to the whatever necessary
therapeutical devices and apparatus as
well as other related corrective antidotal
pharmaceutical drugs, these pitiful
fellows quite often would still invariably
and sometimes almost undoubtedly have very
much slimmer chances of recovery from
their apparent physcial defects and
disabilities caused by this Tardive
Dyskinesia Syndrome compared to the adults
who would tend to have a much higher
prospect of recovery from the similar
sickness due to their fully-grown and much
firmer physical conditions.
As such, from my point of view, it would
be wiser and more rational for any related
parties, especially the parents to take
the additional care and precautionary
measures to pay the necessary attentions
to and cross-examine the medications meant
to be taken by their children for the
treatment of any of their sicknesses with
other more reliable sources in case of any
inherent dire side effects that may be
potentially present in these medications
so that such undesired saddening disasters
and tragedies can be effectively avoided
in the very first place.
Tardive Dyskinesia actually falls under
the EPS (extrapyramidal symptoms) syndrome
which may well include dystonia,
parkinsonism etc.
Such EPS syndrome (especially physical
movement disorders, including Hemifacial
Spasms triggered by bodily chemical
imbalances) in turn is caused by
disturbances to the dopamine receptors
(one of the main neurotransmitters) in the
nervous system which is normally induced
by most of the AAP's (atypical
antipsychotics)
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eowc
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Tardive Dyskinesia-related Medications - Additional Information Posted: 06-12-08 20:21pm
Tardive Dyskinesia-related Medications -
Additional Information
Please take note that such Tardive
Dyskinesia-related medications as
metoclopramide (Reglan), prochlorperazine
(Compazine) - being medications for
gastrointestinal problems, promethazine
(Phenergan) - being medications for cough
and so on that are often prescribed to
children may also have disastrous side
effect of muscle deformity that affect the
rest of their lives.
Further Details About The Medications
Specified Above :
Follow-up of My Own Healing Experience Posted: 06-19-08 08:53am
Follow-up of My Own Healing Experience
From Tardive Dyskinesia-induced Non-stop
Eyelid-twitching
In fact most of the neurology-related
disorders nowadays are closely connected
to the side effects of modern medications
especially the Atypical Antipsychotics
that carry the side effects of
Extrapyramidal Symptoms (EPS), Tardive
Dyskinesia (TD) etc that would potentially
and eventually disturb the normal
functioning of the dopamine receptors (one
of the main neurotransmitters in our
nervous system) resulting in bodily
chemical imbalances that in turn trigger
off a variety of involuntary and
purposeless movement disorders on any
parts of our body that are substantially
beyond control of the ones suffering from
them.
Unfortunately, based on my own personal
experience of seeking treatment for such
neurological Tardive Dyskinesia-induced
Hemifacial Spasm disorders (abnormal
involuntary eyelid twitching), most of the
related medical specialists simply do not
reveal this underlying truth about my
actual medical conditions to me.
For your further information, I used to
work as a business executive with a
promising future not until I suffered from
the depression sicknness due to
overwhelming work-related pressure and
then such Tardive Dyskinesia-induced
abnormal eyelid twitching sickness that
eventually made me force to quit my job
and stop working for more than half a year
seeking repeated and numerous treatments
for it. And surprisingly, most of the
normal specialists just avoided, if not
failed to associate my eyelid twitching
sickness with the antipsychotic drugs that
I had been taking all these while, so did
the psychiatrist dispensing such
medications to me. And in fact, he just
expected and insisted me to continue
taking them even when observing that such
Tardive Dyskinesia side effects of
Hemifacial Spasms were manifesting more
and more obviously to him each time I paid
visit to his practice for a medical
follow-up and to get the same medications
from him.
Later on, I just found out that quite a
number of people, especially those working
adults with a family to support and other
miscellaneous financial commitments were
actually almost in the same boat as me and
their lives were nearly ruined in the end
together with the ones dependent on them.
Saddeningly, they did not have the
slightest idea of what was actually going
on to them.
I am less fortunate enough to come from
such a less-developed country to have
access only to the outdated drugs with
greater hazardous side effects whilst the
related users of such defective drugs are
mostly less medical-conscious and often
over-relying on the misleading advices and
instructions of the doctors, only to the
detriment of their health and well-being
in the end. In fact, regardless of the
fact that more and more advanced versions
of Botox injections and other
sophisticated drugs with lesser side
effects meant for the treatment of mental
disorders and other related illnesses are
invented in U.S and other more advanced
European countries from time to time, the
so-called specialists in my home country
which is less-developed would still insist
to dispense and apply the outdated drugs
for the treatment of such sicknesses
knowingly just to save costs and reap more
profits from their custormers. And that is
the reason why I tend to get an ever
increasing dosage of the same older
version of Botox injection from the same
neurosurgeon time and time again for the
treatment of my Tardive Dyskinesia-related
abnormal eyelid twitching before I am
fortunate enough to finally get it totally
cured through acupuncture treatment. For
your further information, I actually paid
5000 dollars for each Botox treatment from
an expensive private medical center of my
home country and I was surprised to know
from other U.S and European people over
the internet that such Botox treatment
would cost them only 500 dollars the most
in their own countries. Furthermore, such
medical costs are covered by insurance
scheme in these modern countries in
contrast to my own home country whereby
all the medical costs are expected in a
non-negotiable way to be paid immediately
on cash terms by the ones receiving such
treatments from such expensive medical
centres and insurance coverage rarely and
hardly works down here.
So, In line with my vocation as a
part-time social worker for my religious
organization, by posting these articles
over the internet, I hope that apart from
sharing my healing experience from such
Tardive Dyskinesia-induced abnormal eyelid
twitching, these information would
eventually raise the level of
self-awareness and self-consciousness
about the hazards of Tardive Dyskinesia
and Extrapyramidal Symptoms as well as the
medications causing such disorders,
especially the modern Atypical
Antipsychotics meant for the treatment of
certain mental disorders so that the
intended persons could avoid following in
my footsteps of getting such disastrous
side effects from these drugs by being
more medical-conscious and expecting the
medical personnel-in-charge to exercise
the necessary due diligence,
responsibilities and obligations for their
healthcare.
Lastly, I hope that the information
provided will be useful to the intended
readers and hopefully better medications
free of such undesired side effects will
be invented in the near future to improve
the medical welfare of all mankind. Thank
you.
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Brief Summary / My Personal Opinions Posted: 07-09-08 03:11am
Brief Summary / My Personal Opinions
As a brief summary for the prior posts
made above, I get this abnormally rapid
non-stop eyelid twitching in the very
first place due to the dopamine-disturbing
side effect of Risperdal that, together
with other related medications, which
account for most of the so-called
'undiagnosed' neurological movement and
neuromuscular disorders.
In my case, since it is the 'Risperdal
toxin' which accumulates mostly around my
eye nerves that cause all the abnormal,
involuntary, uncontrollable, purposeless
and non-stop rapid eyelid twitchings. As
such, the acupuncture treatment (as
mentioned in the prior posts above)
administered onto my "He Gu" acupuncture
point actually works in a way that it
would gradually purge such 'Risperdal
toxin' that cause all the 'unexplained'
twitchings and spasms' out of the nerves
around my eyes and enable me to get
totally cured once and for all from this
sickness in the end.
Next, such a mechanism about the
acupuncture therapy mentioned above is
what has been elaborated to me by the
acupuncturist who deal with my eyelid
twitching sickness. Personally, I feel
that such an explanation sounds rather
logical and reasonable to me.
In such a connection, I really wonder if
the similar acupuncture treatment and
mechanism would be applicable and workable
too in the case of the non-stop twitchings
and spasms for the other parts of human
body such as arms, legs etc that are in
turn similarly caused by the
dopamine-disturbing side effects of
certain medications (by applying
acupuncture treatment onto the other
related acupuncture points to purge the
dopamine-disturbing toxins causing such
twitchings and spasms out the the related
peripheral nerves of the other parts of
human body to deal with these neurological
movement / neuromuscular disorders).
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What Is The Actual Curative Value of The Antipsychotics ? Posted: 07-22-08 04:05am
What Is The Actual Curative Value of The
Antipsychotics ? / Do The Curative
Benefits of The Antipsychotics And Other
Related Medications Really Outweigh Their
Underlying Inherent Extrapyramidal
Symptoms / Tardive Dyskinesia Side Effects
etc In All Cases ?
Extrapyramidal Symptoms (EPS), Tardive
Dyskinesia (TD) etc are actually the side
effects of certain medications especially
the Antipsychotics that would potentially
and eventually disturb the normal
functioning of the dopamine receptors (one
of the main neurotransmitters / key
elements of neurons in our nervous system
essential for the control of human body
motions) such as blocking them etc (in
carrying out their medical mechanisms to
cure certain other sicknesses and
unfortunately is also one of the
unavoidable side effects of such
medications). Next, such a situation would
then lead to bodily chemical imbalances
and then potential interruptions to the
"message sending, conveying and relaying"
neuron operations between the human brain
and any parts of the human body that would
in turn trigger off a variety of largely
uncontrollable involuntary and purposeless
movement disorders on any parts of our
body that are substantially beyond control
of the ones suffering from them.
In this regard, no matter how
sophisticated the modern drugs are being
invented and developed, especially the
second-generation antipsychotics, such a
potential side effect remains inherent in
such medications that carry the side
effects of antagonizing the dopamine
receptors. Even though the possibility of
manifestation of such neuromuscular
symptoms may be very small or even
negligible as proven by the established
scientific research, other experimental
and clinical verifications, it would still
depend on such other factors as the
different physical conditions of the users
of such drugs, other unexpected possible
allergy cases etc.
All in all, it would be the amount of
medical attention and professional care of
the medical personnel dealing with the
specific cases of their patients and
dispensing the drugs with such
dopamine-disturbing side effects that
would be primarily essential to ensure the
non-occurrence of such disorders or
minimize the risk of getting such
disastrous and undesired neuromuscular
side effects.
In my case, I suffered from the Tardive
Dyskinesia-induced abnormally rapid
non-stop eyelid twitching that resulted
from the dopamine-disturbing side effects
of Risperdal drugs that were dispensed to
me by the relevant psychiatrist to deal
with my depression sickness. The problem
was such that, before I got such an
abnormally rapid eyelid-twitching sickness
the depression sickness itself would
merely caused me to lose interest in
mixing with other people and to a certain
extent made me feel reluctant to go to
work sometimes.
Nevertheless, by the time such
dopamine-disturbing side effects of
Risperdal began to cause me abnormally
rapid eyelid twitching, it caused me
enormous embarrassments in front of so
many other people and subsequently denied
me of even the very basic abilities to
read, watch tv, drive and carry out other
daily and basic routines and then it cost
me my job making me out-of-work for about
six months. To me, the side effects of
Risperdal is more distressing, if not,
mentally-anguising than the depression
sickness that Risperdal purported to cure
in the first place.
Can you guys just imagine what an irony
could it be when the drugs that are
supposed to cure depression would cause
such nearly irreversible sicknesses as
Tardive Dyskinesia etc due to their
unavoidable side effects that are in
reality much more ‘depressing’ to the
patients than the depression sickness
itself.
Next, when such unavoidable side effects
become more and more serious and obvious
and actually make the persons suffering
from it getting more and more depressed,
what should they do ? Continuing taking
such problematic medications for
depressions to alleviate their mental
sicknesses and so as to make them ‘feel
better’ for the time being at the
expense of getting more and more serious
side effects of such other bodily damaging
sicknesses from such problematic
medications later on ? Then what has
exactly happened to these patients ? Would
it be warranted to conclude that they have
been plunged into such a vicious circle of
‘drug addiction’ that would ultimately
get thier lives ruined in the end if they
were to be instructed by their doctors to
continue doing so ?
In my case, I have been unfortunate enough
to come from a less-developed country to
run into such a group of irresponsible
medical personnel and experts who have
either neglected their medical duty of
care to me in dispensing such problematic
medications in the first place, kept me
totally in the dark about the actual
sickness I have been suffering from and my
medical situations and ripped me off
outright by over-charging me exorbitant
prices for the medications that would be
otherwise far cheaper somewhere else like
U.S and other modern European countries (
5000 dollars for each older version of
Botox injection that I have paid to an
expensive private medical centre in my
home country in contrast to the far
cheaper 500 dollars in the U.S and other
modern European countries).
However, thank God that I have been lucky
to be well-to-do enough to access all the
necessary, appropriate and relevant
channels of remedies (both formal and
alternative therapies including
acupuncture that ultimately get my eyelid
twitching sickness cured once and for all)
to deal with my Tardive Dyskinesia-induced
abnormally rapid eyelid twitching and as a
matter of fact, it actually has cost me a
fortune to do that. Unfortunately, for the
less well-to-do ones in my home country
who are also plagued by such bodily
damaging and debilitating irreversible
sicknesses due to the side effects of such
dopamine-disturbing medications and are
still suffering ignorantly from them (due
to the negligences and deliberate
concealments of their actual medical
conditions by the doctors-in-charge),
these muscle-crippling side effects have
also made them lost their jobs whilst for
the ones whose lives are closely dependent
on them such as their families, their
lives are eventually plunged into severe
hardships.
So, what do you think ?
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eowc
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Joined: 02 Jan 2008 Posts: 64
Issues of Medical Ethics In Less Developed Nations Posted: 07-30-08 08:01am
Issues of Medical Ethics In Less Developed
Nations
In the context of such modern nations as
U.S and other developed European nations
whereby most of the medical personnel are
subject to the strict professional
protocol especially in terms of dispensing
the medications with potential disastrous
side effects to their patients, the
medical welfare of this group of people
would be greatly ensured in such a case.
Unfortunately, I am just simply one of the
many victims of gross negligence of the
so-called licensed medical specialists of
a less-developed country who care about
nothing but the medical fees that I would
pay to them in return for such problematic
and defective drugs regardless of any
bodily damages that these medications have
inflicted upon me as visible and readily
observable by these group of unethical
medical professionals each time I pay
regular visits to their practices for
'regular supplies' of such problematic
medications.
Next, when such group of related patients
in my home country start to have doubts
about the disastrous side effects of the
antipsychotic medications dispensed
regularily to them and actually question
the related 'medical experts' about such
issues, invariably almost all of these
'professionals' will try to shirk their
responsibilities by keeping them in the
dark by saying directly 'I don't know what
has exactly happened to you as I'm just a
psychiatrist and not an eye doctor,
chiropractic doctor etc' and they would
then refer the related patients to other
medical specialists of other fields who
would in turn give other misleading
diagnosis about their actual neurological
/ neuromuscular sicknesses to these poor
patients (even when those problematic
medications are presented face-to-face
directly to them in their own practices).
All in all, there seems to be a 'tacit
conspiracy' between these medical
personnel in my home country to work
against the medical welfare of these poor
patients and to put it bluntly, they are
just paying these doctors for those
seemingly 'logical and plausible lies'
about the actual medical conditions they
are having exactly. Next, to further
worsen such a pathetic situation, my home
country tends to become a 'dumping ground'
all the while for decades for the outdated
medications with greater unwanted side
effects from such modern nations as U.S
and other advanced European countries.
Frankly speaking, as a part-time social
worker working for the welfare of these
poor group of people and a former victim
myself who has suffered painfully like
them, I hope that by airing these facts
and my views through the internet, such a
saddening scenario will be exposed to more
and more benevolent individuals and such
an exploitation would come to an end one
day. Thank you.
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eowc
Experienced User , Rather EHEALTHy
Joined: 02 Jan 2008 Posts: 64
Issues of Medical Ethics In Less Developed Nations Posted: 07-30-08 08:01am
Issues of Medical Ethics In Less Developed
Nations
In the context of such modern nations as
U.S and other developed European nations
whereby most of the medical personnel are
subject to the strict professional
protocol especially in terms of dispensing
the medications with potential disastrous
side effects to their patients, the
medical welfare of this group of people
would be greatly ensured in such a case.
Unfortunately, I am just simply one of the
many victims of gross negligence of the
so-called licensed medical specialists of
a less-developed country who care about
nothing but the medical fees that I would
pay to them in return for such problematic
and defective drugs regardless of any
bodily damages that these medications have
inflicted upon me as visible and readily
observable by these group of unethical
medical professionals each time I pay
regular visits to their practices for
'regular supplies' of such problematic
medications.
Next, when such group of related patients
in my home country start to have doubts
about the disastrous side effects of the
antipsychotic medications dispensed
regularily to them and actually question
the related 'medical experts' about such
issues, invariably almost all of these
'professionals' will try to shirk their
responsibilities by keeping them in the
dark by saying directly 'I don't know what
has exactly happened to you as I'm just a
psychiatrist and not an eye doctor,
chiropractic doctor etc' and they would
then refer the related patients to other
medical specialists of other fields who
would in turn give other misleading
diagnosis about their actual neurological
/ neuromuscular sicknesses to these poor
patients (even when those problematic
medications are presented face-to-face
directly to them in their own practices).
All in all, there seems to be a 'tacit
conspiracy' between these medical
personnel in my home country to work
against the medical welfare of these poor
patients and to put it bluntly, they are
just paying these doctors for those
seemingly 'logical and plausible lies'
about the actual medical conditions they
are having exactly. Next, to further
worsen such a pathetic situation, my home
country tends to become a 'dumping ground'
all the while for decades for the outdated
medications with greater unwanted side
effects from such modern nations as U.S
and other advanced European countries.
Frankly speaking, as a part-time social
worker working for the welfare of these
poor group of people and a former victim
myself who has suffered painfully like
them, I hope that by airing these facts
and my views through the internet, such a
saddening scenario will be exposed to more
and more benevolent individuals and such
an exploitation would come to an end one
day. Thank you.
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Experienced User , Rather EHEALTHy
Joined: 02 Jan 2008 Posts: 64
A New Version For The Self-administered Acupuncture Cure Posted: 08-07-08 05:08am
A New Version For The Self-administered
Acupuncture Cure For Non-stop Persistent
Eyelid-twitching
Thanks for taking an interest in my posts
made in this website. At the same time, I
also have received lots of positive
feedbacks from my email inbox from other
persons (troubled by such annoying
non-stop eyelid twitching sickness) giving
thanks to me for the curative benefits
they experience upon exercising the
suggested alternative instrument-aided
self-administered acupuncture method.
In response to the additional enquiries
about the suggested self-administered
acupuncture method that these persons have
made to me so far through the emails, I
thus would like to provide to the intended
readers a new version about this
acupuncture therapy which contains other
extra and more in-depth details as follows
: -
Well, regarding the 'He Gu' acupuncture
point I have mentioned in my prior
articles for the suggested cure for
non-stop eyelid-twitching, its exact
location is at the back of the palm of
one's right hand, which is 1.5 cm
(applicable to the average grown adults
only) measured vertically from the point
of intersection (that would appear visibly
when the fingers are closed loosely
together) between the thumb and the
forefinger. (Kindly take note that this
point is located at a much 'fleshy'
instead of a much 'boney' area - perhaps
you would need to briefly explore that
part of your right hand at the same time
to locate that point, and I hope you will
understand that the hand structures of
each person differ from one another).
When the acupuncture point is identified
and marked accordingly, you can then
re-open your hand , and then what you all
can do is to sit down, and at the same
time press that onto the surface of that
acupuncture point (using just mild force)
with any long blunt-pointed object such as
toothpick, a normal writing pen (which is
out of ink of course) etc against your
chin (suggested for convenience purpose)
for a continuous 2 hours (during any time
in a day), and it's preferably to do that
when you are about to go to sleep at night
(so that you have more free time to do
it). However , if you are eager to find
out the very exact location of that
particular acupuncture point to further
verify the information given above, I
would suggest you to seek consultancy from
a licensed acupuncturist.
In this regard, based on the
acupuncturist, the blunt-pointed objects
such as normal writing pen (which is
out-of-ink of course) etc instructed to me
for such self-administred therapy is
actually intended as a substitute for the
acupuncture needle to deal effectively
with the particular acupuncture point.
Unlike the other traditional method of
acupressure which involves the use of
fingers to press and massage the
acupuncture points, the use of
blunt-pointed object in such a case for
the treatment of chronic eyelid-twtiching
is actually meant as a 'leverage' to
provide an adequately focused and hence a
'reflexology stimulus' that is strong
enough to deal more precisely and
effectively with that acupuncture point.
Whereas, if that acupuncture point is to
be treated with fingers, the stimulus
effect generated would be very much
smaller due to the fact that such
pressings and massagings would reasonably
not last long enough to provide any
reliefs for the chronic eyelid-twitching.
Besides, given the larger suface area of
the fingers as well as their rounded
physical shape (compared to the
blunt-pointed objects), a large part of
the forces produced from such pressings
and massagings would then be reasonably
applied onto the related muscles rather
than directly onto the intended nerves
through the related acupuncture point to
deal effectively with such sickness.
Please be reminded that a good sleep at
night throughout the therapy period is
essential for the healing to be
effectively done. And a person shouldn't
associate oneself again with the
underlying causes such as over-straining
of the eyes, excessive cafeine intake,
allergy/overdosage of certain medication
(with muscle spasms side effects) that
causes this non-stop eyelid-twitching to
the particular person in the first place
to avoid a relapse of that sickness,
especially after getting cured from it.
Please take note that one should
continually apply that method in the case
where it proves to be effective in dealing
with the eyelid twitching problem (after
trying it for about 3 days' time).
For your reference, I get my eyelid
twitching stopped the next day after the
acupuncture treatment. But when I stop the
treatment for the next few days, the
twitchings just come back again. Based on
the acupuncturist, the explanation for the
relapse is such that if one were to apply
just one-off / short-term treatment, it
would then only serve to disperse the
dopamine-disturbing toxin / other
'contaminating agents' around one's eye
nerves enabling the twitching to stop just
temporarily (without totally purging such
toxins / 'contaminating agents' out of the
human body). So, it works just like doing
a physiotherapy whereby one should
complete the whole course of treatment (in
this case, applying that self-administered
technique persistently for weeks / a few
months) to get the eyelid-twitching
sickness totally cured effectively once
and for all in the end.
Next, the suggested duration of two-hour
period/day (continuous non-stop healing
process) for that self-administered
treatment is just what I have recommended
so far to other persons having the similar
symptoms based on my very own healing
experience from this eyelid-twitching
sickness and the others who suffer from it
(who eventually get it totally cured). All
in all, it would acutally depend on one's
healing progress for the eyelid twitching
sickness upon applying that suggested
self-administered acupuncture method.
Primary Vs Secondary Blepharospasm Posted: 09-16-08 05:00am
Primary Vs Secondary Blepharospasm /
Brain-damage-induced Vs
Non-brain-damage-induced Eyelid-twitching
/ Eye-blinking
Please refer to the following medical
explanations entitled 'Primary Vs
Secondary Blepharospasm' which is actually
an excerpt of my reply to the other party
and I hope that the information given will
be useful to the intended readers. Thank
you.
Quotation :
" 'However, from this posting I have much
more clearly understood that your
blepharospasm symptoms are a form of
secondary blepharospasm, not primary or
conventional BEB. BEB is assumed to be a
by-product of malfunctioning in the basal
ganglia area of the brain, with no known
specific cause, but essentially
representing a breakdown in the electrical
functioning of the brain that occurs at
nature's whim, and for which some small
proportion of the general population is
vulnerable.'
My Reply :
To a very great extent, I do agree with
your medical reasoning.
In such critical chronic cases of
degenerative neurological / nervous
disorders which involve permanent damages
of the cerebrum / Celebral Cortex and
Central nervous systems /other
brain-related damages as Chorea, Celebral
Palsy, Multiple Sclerosis, Alzheimers /
Senile Dementia, Bovine Spongiform
Encephalopathy (BSE) / Mad cow disease,
Parkinsonism, chronic epilepsy/ brain
seizures / etc for which there are
permanent losses of brain masses / sensory
/ motor neurons and what you have
described as 'malfunctioning in the basal
ganglia area of the brain', no 100 %
definite cure would be available (in
whatsoever cases) in such scenarios due to
the underlying fact that neurons / nerve
fibres / brain cells cannot regenerate
themselves in that when they are totally
damaged / destroyed / lost, they are gone
forever.
As such, in the cases described above
there would hardly be any nerve impulses
that would be able to be smoothly and
perfectly sent from the brain to direct /
result in any bodily movements / motions
in the naturally smooth and totally
unimpeded ways in the cases as explained
above.
Quotation :
'As a skeptic about alternative medicines,
I would not expect solutions to BEB from
say acupuncture, but I am more open the
idea of alternative solutions like
acupuncture being helpful in secondary
blepharospasm, as in your case of
Risperdal induced Tardive Dyskinesia.'
My Reply :
However, in the case of so-called
'secondary blepharospasm' that you have
mentioned in your reply, such kind of
disorder in most cases actually doesn't
involve direct damages of / to the brains
/ central nervous systems and permanent
damages / losses of the motor/ sensory
neurons like the chronic cases I have
explained above. In such a connection, if
the neurons / nerve cells (the cells that
are specialized to conduct nerve impulses
from the brain to conduct / control the
human body movements/motions) actually do
not suffer any serious / permanent /
irrepairable damages but instead have just
their normal functionings of conducting
such nerve impulses from the brain
disturbed by the other substances that
antagonize the neurotransmitters (such as
dopamine / serotonin / acetylcholine)
comprised in them (the neurons / nerve
cells) , a cure from acupuncture to get
rid of such
neurotransmitter-blocking/disturbing
substances (that antagonize the
neurotransmitter ) from the related
peripheral nerves around the muscles would
be available (such as the one I have
suggested for Tardive Dyskinesia-induced
eyelid-twitching). And please bear in mind
that as long as the neurons / nerve
fibres/ brain cells / central nervous
system (which is made up mainly of the
brain and spinal cord) do not suffer any
damages/disorders, neurotransmitters (the
key elements of neurons) can always be
renewed, generated and secreted (by the
neurons).
In fact among the eyelid-twitching /
eye-blinkng cases that I have observed in
my real life and the ones aired over the
internet, I just find out and deduce from
such related posts that lots of such
people would tend to have this so-called
'secondary blepharospasm' problem
(otherwise they would have faced great
cognitive difficulties to get their
problems articulately accounted over the
internet and at the same time, suffered
from other far more serious neurological
complications apart from the blepharospasm
alone).
Besides, for most of the neurodegenerative
disorders that involve direct serious
damages to / in the brain, celebral
cortex, spinal cord, neurons / nerve
fibers such as the ones that I have
mentioned earlier as above, they are in
most cases actually verifiable and
observable through medical means of CT
Scanning and MRI examinations. Whereas, in
the case of bodily chemical imbalances
which is caused mainly by the
interruptions to the normal
impulse-relaying activities of
neurotransmitters in the neurons (which is
not damaged / destroyed), such a medical
phenomenon / disorder would actually by no
means could be revealed / observable /
diagnosed through such medical scanning
examinations alone.
As a matter of fact, based on my
experience of getting my Tardive
Dyskinesia-induced eyelid-twitching /
eye-blinking totally cured, I just found
out that there are simply certain areas
for which the western medical Science
appear to be rather inadequate. (For
example, such technologies of dealing
effectively and precisely with the purely
peripheral-nerves-related muscle disorders
simply are not available in this
mainstream medical field - and that's why
my earlier attempts to search for a cure
for my eye-sickness from the formal
western medications turn out to be futile
/ hardly yields any permanent and
satisfactory results).
Hence, from the viewpoint of a patient who
is concerned about nothing else but just
for an effective cure for such an annoying
sickness, I'm just in an opinion that the
suggested acupuncture cure, which have
empirically provided great curative
benefits to me and other people to whom I
have recommended it both in my real life
and through the emails, is a more
practical and realistic approach of
dealing with such a problem.
Quotation :
'I am sorry to hear that the medical
profession in your country seems ignorant
of the side effects of some of these
drugs. We have discussed elsewhere on the
board this lack of awareness more
generally in the medical profession, so
you are less alone in this than you may
think, unfortunately.
So I think that the main message we should
take from your notes, is to keep ourselves
thoroughly aware of which drugs are known
to be dangerous in terms of inducing
things like blepharospasm. The BEBRF blue
brochure lists these, and they have also
been listed on this site (see the link
below). The only constructive suggestion I
can make is for us all to ensure our own
doctors of whatever specialty are aware of
these drugs and their side-effects, which
we can do by informing them, perhaps by
sending them the BEBRF brochure.
Thank you for once again warning us of the
dangers of certain anti-psychotic drugs,
and glad to hear that your symptoms are
relieved by acupuncture.'
My Reply :
Actually as a social worker working for
the healthcare and benefits of the others,
I do hope that such a saddening scenario
of the various exploitations of basic
medical rights that are denied to certain
'underprivileged' individuals due to
'imperfect information', ignorance on the
part of the patients, geographical
differences (modern vs less-developed
nations), deliberate exploitation by
certain profit-driven individuals who have
lesser or no regard at all for medical
ethics and human lives etc, would come to
an end one day. In this regard, I do hope
that such relevant regulatory bodies as
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) etc and
other charity organizations as well as the
kind and benevolent individuals elsewhere
all around the world would be kind and
generous enough to extend their invaluable
and prodigious supports in any forms
whatsoever for such a humanitarian cause.
Thank you.
