Wednesday, March 26, 2014

Update - Random Twitching

I haven't posted in a long time, again, because I've been holding a nice status quo.

But in the past few days I've been experiencing a change.  I'm not certain if it is Bells, or consequences thereof, or if it is completely coincidentally all on the right side of my face.  But even if it is totally unrelated, I guess it is evidence of how BP can still have an impact on us mentally even years later, right?

I think it was last... Thursday?  That I noticed a dead spot on my right lower lip, stretching in a line down my chin.  It isn't dead in terms of being able to control the muscles (I immediately ran to a mirror and performed all of my face symmetry tests!) - it is really more about the feeling in the skin.  It isn't anything bad but I notice it especially when I'm eating because it changes the feel of chewing.

A few days later, I got some violent twitching in my upper lip, again on the right.  That lasted about 2 days, then faded.  Then yesterday and again this morning I've been having some strong twitching of my right eye near the lower outer corner.

The next question is has anything changed in my life?  No - not really.  Especially not last week when it all started.  I must admit that this week I've been pretty stressed, so that could potentially account for the twitching.

Really, I think if I was just twitching, I wouldn't think much of it.  That happens to me occasionally.  I think I am paying attention this time because of the odd dead spot in my lip, because losing feeling in an area of the face smacks of BP.  And that has never happened before, so I'm not sure what to think of it at all.

It could be nothing.  Hopefully it is nothing.  Hopefully this is one of those things where the mind freaks out on nothing.  (If I say "nothing" more, I'll will it to be NOTHING!)