Medical treatments for blepharospasm and dystonia

William G. Ondo, MD

[@mikeodee1164]

i have blephorspasm taking pumpkin seed extract has helped me and alpha lipoic acid adn i also take valerian root i get no side effects

[@T-Rexzilla]

Do you still have eye spams or this has stopped it?

[@mikeodee1164]

@@T-Rexzilla I have now and then but its alot less severe i also use tape to deal with the spasms at times i tape my eye brows to my for head i learned this trick from people at teh blephorspasm site i went to a few years ago i also taked magnesium pillls one magnesium pill and one pumpkin seed extract in the mornning and one magnesium pill in the afternoon and 2 alpha lipoic acid pills every day in the mornning i stopped taking the valerian root a few months ago i found magnesium the tape works very well and dark sun glasess i have an amber color sunglasess i also put black sheets covering my windows in my apt and i use a very dim light i learned a new trick with teh tape this is going to seem very odd but instead of taping my eye brows to my forhead i tape the left side of my forrhead to the rigth side when i do this i force teh skin from the left side to go towards the right side and the tape is very tight i use the tape that hospitals use on peopel skin form one side of my forhead to the other and thjis actucally causes resistence against the spasms that close my eyes i had good sucess wtih this for the last 3 days i clean the glue from my skin with shampoo and paper towels i have the tape about 4 inches avove my eyebrows going across from left to right

[@mikeodee1164]

@@T-Rexzilla i quit the velerain root i found out it was the magnesium in the pumpkin seed extract that is helping with teh spams so now i take pumpkin seed extract with magnesium pills and alpha lipoic acid to get teh spams to stop complete all day long i tape the left side of my forhead to the right side of my forhead i kind of force teh skin from the left side of my forhead over to the right hard to explain this causes tension which fights the spasm and helps keep my eyes open along with the pill i take i have the tape going from one side of my forhead to the other two rows of tape one above the other above my eye brows i also at times wear red frame sunglases to watch tv or blue light blocking eye glasess to watch tv which helps adn stay away from caffeine

[@mikeodee1164]

i get no side effect from the pills or the tape i wash my forhead wtih shampoo that takes glue off my skin when i remove the tape or i take a hot shower i remove the tape every night before i go to sleep i dont use the tape out side just sunglasess which helps alot i have no problem seeing when i walk out side for some reason teh light from the tv bothers me alot more then sunlight some people at the blephorspams group tape their eye brows to their forhead this helps but causess dry eyes and other problelms so i dont do this any more i use it across my forhead in stead no problems this way across the forhead with my way of treatment im able to watch tv with the lights on my rooom all day with no problem i refuse to take botox it dont work as good by what people have told me they dont get the same positive results i get i never took botox

[@mikeodee1164]

i use the tape that cvs sells it made to be put on skin medical tape its clear i been treated my problem for the past 10 years very successfully