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1303966 tn?1296740010

twitching anyone?

Can anyone tell me if they experience head or face twitching with their Chiari?  I'm having a lot of twitching near my temples, very annoying.  
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620923 tn?1452915648
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Lisa..when I say blurry vision u can say it is similar to ur description of dirty glasses.....
Carolyn,...I have seen the waves too....
and I even had the window of rain....u know when u r in the car and it  is raining...the effect u get in ur peripheral vision?...well I got that and I was not in a car and it was not raining....I felt like I had some weird blinders on.....

"selma"
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1179332 tn?1297478990
Hmmm..one thing I noticed very early on that I was seeing static everywhere...light static in bright light...and then static (like when the TV is on a bad channel) in dim light which makes it very hard for me to see in the dark.

It does sound like you are starting to experience some visual disturbances..you might want to add that to your list!

Carolyn
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620923 tn?1452915648
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Has neone ever experienced when indoors and looking out to a sunny day...gotten the flashing lights when u turn to look back in side?


Yeah Carolyn in a semi dark room...the static is there.....I hate going from a well lit room to a darken room or vice versa.....and balance is all off in a darker room....
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1322693 tn?1308153896
I have the twitching in my lip and around my eyes. also in my legs and hip ares. Also in my forearm and back of arms. no pain like you said, just annoying.

I get the flashes like when a car passes by and the sunlight is reflected off the windshield. It happens during the day and at night when im in bed with my eyes closed. also sometimes hard to sleep because of the light show going on behind my eyelids. dont know how else to describe. when i close my eyes I get areas of light that seem to roll over my eye then a dark area and then the light again. will do this over and over. I actually watch it. probably sounds really odd....and it IS! I have to remind myself my eyes are closed and it cant be seen by anybody else.
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1199758 tn?1280749081
YES to the twitching.  Everything twitches.  It's annoying as Heck one minute, then just funny.  My fingers were twitching so badly the other day, my "kitten" (she's a bit developmentally behind... someone apparently threw her out of a moving car when she was about 4 1/2 weeks old, so has brain damage) decided she had a new toy and kept attacking them.  The worst, though, is the eye twitches... nystagmus, I think it's called?  Don't know, exactly, if that's what it is or not, but it's like my vision absolutely vibrates, only way to describe it.  VERY annoying.  Does anyone get a twitch-like feeling in/around the spine???  Thought I'd ask.

Scottie
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ALL THE TIME!!! My leg muscles are the worst, I have had strangers say to me do you know your thigh is twictching. uhhh?!?! I do thank you for pointing it out! But my eyes twitch, the right side of my mouth, my forearm, my calves, my thighs and hamstrings also twitch. THANK GOD not all at once. I also have tremors so maybe that is part of it i don't know but it sure is obnoxious!
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