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Eye Twitching and now lip twitching - can this just be caused by tiredness?

Asked by tan253 (2948points) September 9th, 2017

Hi All,
On-going debarkle with me.
So as you know I’ve had an eye lid twitch for months, now it only twitches when someone touches it or my hair gets in it, or water, when I wash my face etc, otherwise it pretty much is ok, but now my LIP has started twitching, I thought hemifacial spasm but the lip twitch is on the opposite side to my eye twitch so it can’t be that, as hemi means one-half, not two opposing halves.
I have been to Dr’s, Optometrists and most recently – say a week ago, a neurologist. The neurologist did a full neuro exam and asked lots of questions and played with my face a lot, he saw the twtich as well – he touched my eye to make it twitch and at the end of it all he said, ‘it’s just a twitch, myokymia. Now I’ve got an lip twitch and I’ve been reading this “Eyelid myokymia, typically a benign condition, may rarely evolve into facial myokymia reflective of underlying brainstem disease.” – like MS I’m guessing.
He said as I was leaving that my eye twitch is not neurological and my exam revealed nothing out of the ordinary. Now I’m asking here as you lot are fairly logical – what would you do in my situation? Get a second and very expensive opinion, go back to the Dr or just forget about it and wait to see what else happens?
Thanks, guys, I’m so over this and my anxiety is now sky high making it hard for me to do normal things. Sorry it’s so long.

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