Maddening Nose Twitching...

[AndrewIrish]

Did a google search 'cuz I've realized a lot lately, my nose keeps twitching constantly, like I feel the muscles moving or something, twitching, on the bridge of my nose, flaring my nostrols - it's like if you were about to sneeze... it's idiocyncratic but a new thing going on with me ever since my 'tiny grand mal' tuesday... won't go away and it's annoying.... so, I pulled up a yahoo answers thread 'cuz apparently someone else is going through the same thing...

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20120110200339AAuYTrf

What do you guys think might going on? Ever have a part of your body start twitching like crazy after a seizure for a few days afterwards? Does it go away? On a related note as well, I've found the muscle in my forearm is continuously twitching a lot of the time... my calf... I'm twitching and tweaking out a lot of the time... bundle that in with my myoclonic jerks/grand mals... and my natural kind of 'ADD' movements(I can't sit still...)... hard to get to sleep... hard to relax.... I'm probably a hypochondriac, I know that... but still... any thoughts? Anyone have something similar going on?

And if you need clarification on my 'nose twitching' issue, lol, I found this entire page full of comments from people going through the same thing, having trouble finding a cause for it. It's like a 'pulse', where it feels like the muscle under the skin is moving - don't think you'd see it outwardly... but it's weird and annoying...

Found a doctor who had an answer for someone going through the exact same thing:

"http://www.justanswer.com/health/1l9ee-nose-keeps-twicthing-pulsing-it-s-going.html"

"nasal twitching is not a serious condition and typically results from excessive fatigue or stress. sometimes its result of a mild allergic reaction(sensitive to Pollens (tree, grass, and weed,House dust mites ,pets) external envioment(new place ), surrounding temperature(ecessive cold,heat)
but i few cases it can be proir to certaiin inflamations of the nasal sunus."

Guess maybe I've been under too much stress with the new job... obviously the stress triggered the 'tc' on Tuesday and I've still been pretty anxious with the whole week... I need to relax... I'd do meditation or hypnosis, but I've been kinda scared off of doing it because I've been informed it can actually make things worse...

 

[Nakamova]

Eyelid and nose twitches can be caused by magnesium withdrawal -- but if I remember right, you're taking a daily magnesium dose. It IS pollen season, so may that's part of it.

I wonder what would happen if you put a small amount of cortisone cream (like what's sold for bug bites) around your nose, to slightly numb the area.

 

[KarenB]

It could just be a tic (I get these little eyelid twitches). However, when our son was having lots of seizures back in the Fall, he was constantly rubbing his nose. At the time, we were thinking it was allergies (and we tried giving Claritin, but it didn't help), and then we realized that nose rubbing is a kind of post-ictal behavior. So, if he were having several seizures a day (and he was at that point) then he would have been post-ictal a good bit of the time. But now that you've posted this, it makes me wonder if the reason he was rubbing his nose was because of it twitching?

At any rate, now that he's seizure free again, we're not seeing the nose rubbing.

 

[AndrewIrish]

Eyelid and nose twitches can be caused by magnesium withdrawal -- but if I remember right, you're taking a daily magnesium dose. It IS pollen season, so may that's part of it.

I wonder what would happen if you put a small amount of cortisone cream (like what's sold for bug bites) around your nose, to slightly numb the area.

Ya know, I was taking magnesium oxide 1000mg a day, but I went off of it a few days ago 'cuz A) It gave me horrible 'bathroom troubles' and B) I was on the fence on whether or not it was helping me or hindering me - couldn't tell if I was still having issues 'cuz of my new job and stress or because it wasn't really doing anything, so I did cease it. As a kid, my mom would say I had an 'allergy to pollen' but everyone says that, so I dunno...I may take you up on the suggestion though.

 

[Maisy]

i get this post-ictal, but usually just my hayfever, pretty bad when had my sinus infaction though.

 

[Nakamova]

Ya know, I was taking magnesium oxide 1000mg a day, but I went off of it a few days ago 'cuz A) It gave me horrible 'bathroom troubles.

If you're getting the runs, that means your magnesium dose is too high. You might find other forms of magnesium such as magnesium citrate or gluconate better absorbed and more effective. Either way, a smaller dose (probably 2550 to 500mg) might be worth trying.