I don’t know if it’s common within the migraine sufferer’s community to have facial and/or body twitches that accompany the headache(s), but I have been bestowed the wonderful “honor” of having twitches. Mostly it is just my left eye that twitches, but it has “migrated” to my left hand and, on rare occasions, to the bottom of my left foot. It is almost completely exclusive to my left side—RARELY my right eye will twitch—but, considering my headache(s) stay pretty limited to the left side of my head, I guess it stands to reason that it would be the left side of my body that acts up. I guess that this is one of the symptoms that are causing my physical therapist to lean toward all of this nonsense being atypical migraines, but she hasn’t totally committed to it being one specific thing.
Naturally, like when you take your clanking car to the mechanic and the clanking stops when the mechanic is around, the twitch is no different. Each specialist I’ve seen (ENT and Neurology) has been told about my twitches, but, naturally, the twitch never shows its ugly head when they’re looking. The only one “lucky” enough to see it happen was the Physical Therapist, so at least I know that too, like the rest of whatever this illness truly is, is not all in my head (no pun intended). When the twitch is going to town on my left hand it, naturally, goes for The Finger, the one, as a Christian, that I do not use. It is rather an awkward feeling, having that particular finger having a mind of it’s own. Now, it’s not as if it spontaneously jumps straight up and tells everyone around me that they’re #1; but it does wiggle around, almost as if I have a nervous habit. It truly is an odd feeling.
I have also been suffering from spontaneous fits of hiccups, something else that I do not know whether or not is attributed to atypical migraines. The thing about my hiccups is that they wake me up out of a dead sleep in the middle of the night. I have been woken up while sleeping on my side and while sleeping on my back. There is no acid reflux that accompanies them, they just appear out of nowhere and keep me awake for half an hour or so and then, after holding my breath for a few seconds several times, changing positions in bed, and deep breaths, they finally go away. These, I would say, are worse than the twitching of my eye/hand/foot because they wake me up in the middle of the night and sometimes it takes me a little while to get back to sleep. Granted, I sleep away most of the day, but, when you’re sick and you’ve finally hit that groove of good sleep in the middle of the night, the last thing you want is HICCUPS waking you up!!
As I’m sure you can tell, today was just a spasm-y kind of day that accompanied the never-ending headache. On the up side (which I try to find one every day, no matter how bad the day), my Sista-Mama Maria brought me a big stuffed ducky—which I named Waddle—for Easter. She knew that I really wanted a big plush stuffed animal for Easter, something to cuddle with when I’m feeling completely horrid, and I COMPLETELY appreciate and love her for doing that for me. She was a little bummed she couldn’t find me the big stuffed frog that I had been raving about, but I LOVE Waddle VERY much and couldn’t ask for anything more because I know that it was bought for me out of love. So, thank you, Maria! You were my Mama 2.0 this week and I really appreciate it!
With that I will say Happy Easter to all! Remember the REAL reason for Easter! I hope yours (and mine) is a non-twitchy day!
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