elizzza811
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Actually, first, my real question is...could these relentless 'jaw pulling' sensations be simple partial seizures in disguise? It feels as if two magnets at points located somewhere inside my lower jaw, constantly pull upwards against my will. I can unclench my teeth IF I concentrate on doing so, but even unclenched, the pulling sensations continue. And as soon as I stop concentrating on not clenching, my jaw immediately returns to clenching.
Then I read the excerpt below...(italics and bold mine)...
'Partial Seizures and Interictal Disorders - The Neuropsychiatric Elements', by David P. Moore, 1997, Butterworth-Heinemann, page123...
From the ages of 24-32 years, the patient had recurrent grand mal seizures, some of which were preceded by an aura of facial paresthesias. Then at 33 years, he began to experience a sense as if he had been punched in the stomach, followed closely by a pulling sensation in his jaw, and then, most remarkably, for the first time in his life, an "impulse to dress in female clothes". This impulse was of such a compelling nature that he did cross dress, after which he felt "completely calm" for a few minutes. These "desires to transvest" continued to occur, and on each occasion they were "ushered in by epigastric and jaw sensations." Eventually, the patient "became increasingly irritable and normal sexual activity slowly diminished over...years."
On evaluation, an EEG disclosed "one isolated spike...from the right temporal region." Radiography of the thighs and pelvis disclosed calcified cysts, which were thought to be secondary to cysticerosis. The authors concluded that the urge to cross dress was secondary to an epileptic discharge in the temporal lobe, which they suggested was, in turn, due to a small cyst.
Certainly the author's conclusion would have been much stronger had the urge to cross dress occurred during electroencephalographic monitoring. Lacking such evidence, the putative connection between epilepsy and transvestism must still be considered tentative at best.
...Now I'm not having urges to cross dress (thankfully, but this is the first place I've found reference to any jaw pulling sensations that sound anything similar to mine, and truthfully, some of my OCD cleaning 'obsessions' feel 'urge-like' and make no sense whatsoever to me. I simply feel compelled to perform these elaborate and bizarre cleaning rituals.
Then I read the excerpt below...(italics and bold mine)...
'Partial Seizures and Interictal Disorders - The Neuropsychiatric Elements', by David P. Moore, 1997, Butterworth-Heinemann, page123...
From the ages of 24-32 years, the patient had recurrent grand mal seizures, some of which were preceded by an aura of facial paresthesias. Then at 33 years, he began to experience a sense as if he had been punched in the stomach, followed closely by a pulling sensation in his jaw, and then, most remarkably, for the first time in his life, an "impulse to dress in female clothes". This impulse was of such a compelling nature that he did cross dress, after which he felt "completely calm" for a few minutes. These "desires to transvest" continued to occur, and on each occasion they were "ushered in by epigastric and jaw sensations." Eventually, the patient "became increasingly irritable and normal sexual activity slowly diminished over...years."
On evaluation, an EEG disclosed "one isolated spike...from the right temporal region." Radiography of the thighs and pelvis disclosed calcified cysts, which were thought to be secondary to cysticerosis. The authors concluded that the urge to cross dress was secondary to an epileptic discharge in the temporal lobe, which they suggested was, in turn, due to a small cyst.
Certainly the author's conclusion would have been much stronger had the urge to cross dress occurred during electroencephalographic monitoring. Lacking such evidence, the putative connection between epilepsy and transvestism must still be considered tentative at best.
...Now I'm not having urges to cross dress (thankfully, but this is the first place I've found reference to any jaw pulling sensations that sound anything similar to mine, and truthfully, some of my OCD cleaning 'obsessions' feel 'urge-like' and make no sense whatsoever to me. I simply feel compelled to perform these elaborate and bizarre cleaning rituals.