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Suffering With Hemifacial Spasm, Have Healthy Lifestyle. What Treatment Should Be Taken?

I am suffering from hemifacial spasm .(involuntary twitching of right eye). I am ex-army officer presently working in a nationalised bank. Being ex army officer I take two drinks once or twice a week. Otherwise I am physically active and regularly carry out meditation and excercise daily for half an hour. Please advise remedy. Cap.Prakash YYYY@YYYY
Wed, 25 Jul 2012
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Hemifacial spasm can be due to compression of facial nerve by a small blood vessel in brain stem region in brain. In some cases the mri is normal. In normal mri patients drugs given to reuduce twitchings may not work in all. The best solution is injecting a drug called botulinum toxin into the facial nerves periodically shows good results. In patients with mri showing compression of nerve may benefit with botulinum injection. If the response is not good then decompression of nerve( surgery ) would be useful.
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Suffering With Hemifacial Spasm, Have Healthy Lifestyle. What Treatment Should Be Taken?

Hemifacial spasm can be due to compression of facial nerve by a small blood vessel in brain stem region in brain. In some cases the mri is normal. In normal mri patients drugs given to reuduce twitchings may not work in all. The best solution is injecting a drug called botulinum toxin into the facial nerves periodically shows good results. In patients with mri showing compression of nerve may benefit with botulinum injection. If the response is not good then decompression of nerve( surgery ) would be useful.