My right eye twitches and closes hard sometimes during the day. When I sleep the muscles are always tense. I rub it during the day to make it stop. It's starting to give me wrinkles. Is there a medical term for this twitch? Would Botox help this at all? Would insurance pay for some of it? How could I prove it's for uncontrollable twitching and not just the wrinkles? One doctor told me he thinks my twitching is mental and not muscle spasms. Does that matter? It happens in my sleep.
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February 5, 2011
Answer: Eye twitches (blepahrospasm) and Botulinum Toxin (Botox and Dysport) injection
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Dynamic wrinkles are those wrinkles that you have when you are contracting muscles to produce them. Static lines or wrinkles are those that are there in repose. In the case of your elbows, this is positional. That means that, like your neck, or knees, depending on how they are flexed there is...
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