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To: hoosiermama; metmom
The hardest part is the "not knowing". You figure that if you can find out the cause, then you can do something about it. I know how that feels.

When my eyes started closing down involuntarily, I went to the optometrist who said my eyes were perfect, nothing wrong. Then to family doctor who said it must be nerves, then to an Opthamologist who insisted that it was only a habit, then to a Neurologist who vowed it was all in my head.

Three years later and umpteen different non-diagnosis, the Univ. of Va. Eye Center found that I had Benign Essential Blepharospasm, a rare affliction that has no cure which involves Neuro-synapes in the area of the 5th-7th Cranial Nerves. It has taken an operation to remove the eyelid muscles, and the use of BOTOX shots around my eyes to keep me functioning. It's not perfect, but I manage, and thank the Lord that he has allowed me to be of service even in my affliction. It was harder when I didn't know what I was facing, especially when doctors insisted that I was mental. Which may be true, but that wasn't the problem with my eyes. LOL

222 posted on 08/22/2010 1:02:24 PM PDT by WVNan
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To: WVNan

WOW a medical reason for BOTOX....Is it catching? ;~)

How are you doing now?


224 posted on 08/22/2010 1:09:10 PM PDT by hoosiermama (ONLY DEAD FISH GO WITH THE FLOW.......I am swimming with Sarahcudah! Sarah has read the tealeaves.)
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To: WVNan

I hear you.

That is so true.

It’s not mental when an infant displays symptoms.

Or when you’ve been happily eating something that you know you’re not allergic to, and then you start displaying symptoms to it. That’s what’s been driving me nuts. I’m eliminating all kids of things trying to find the offending substance, only to find that it’s been what I was eating that I thought was safe.


230 posted on 08/22/2010 1:24:08 PM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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