My Facial Twitch/Spasm Experience

Hi all!
I'll start by saying I still have no idea whether I have Lyme/Bart but have done enough research to know it's a clear possibility. Leaning far more towards Bart. Anyways, I've been on Carnivore diet for nearly two months now (still supplementing though with multi vitamin, magnesium, zinc, D3/K2, cod liver oil, and broccoli sprouts) and the main positive effect it's had for me is drastically diminishing my facial twitching.

Since 3-4 years ago, any time I'd flex the muscles required to quench your nose, the muscles to sides and above nose would instantly jump around uncontrollably. Then the eye lids started doing it when I'd go to bed with my eyelid muscles completely relaxed. Then, like 6 months later my TMJ began. 1 years later, the cheek twitching began and that was the one that destroyed me socially for the last year and 10 months. Any time I'd smile, I'd feel unsteadiness throughout the cheeks. On good days, I might go 10 seconds of smiling before the cheeks would start twitching pretty bad... and not just consecutive smiling. If I smiled for 5 seconds, then relaxed for 30 seconds, smile again for 5 seconds, relax for 30, then as soon as I put up my next smile, my cheeks would instantly spasm.

Anyways, quitting alcohol and coffee back in January 2018 helped it a lot. The day after drinking alcohol or day of drinking coffee, my face constantly felt unsteady like it wanted to twitching to any slight muscle contraction. I had to look away every time I smiled at someone, especially on those days. Can anyone here relate to these symptoms?

Fast forward to now, my nose and eye lid twitching are 10 times better. This is a win but the cheek twitching effects me ions more; the other two were just annoying. The cheek unsteadiness feeling has become less apparent and has clearly improved from zerocarb but.. Here's where my other question comes in for those who also suffer/ed from facial twitching.

I was just in a social situation yesterday where I had 3 people sitting across from me asking me different questions where I had to smile a lot. I started feeling the unsteadiness and knew the twitching would ensue so I went to the restroom and massaged the mandible muscles as hard as I could. I found this to be my best cure about 6 months ago and the difference is day and night. I went back out and had no cheek twitch or unsteadiness. Has anyone else found this to be similar? The cheek twitching probably correlates with the TMJ in that case and I've found if I don't decompress those muscles every day, the unsteadiness and eventual twitch will come back.

Now, for that 4 months I was massaging my mandibles and other cheek muscles while on SAD, I still had the unsteadiness and cheek spasms. What it did for me is increased the time I could smile before the spasms would begin. It pushed me to 30ish seconds and made it so my cheeks recovered faster in order to smile again if needed.

Zero carb has probably helped the most but it definitely still requires the mandible massages.
Other little side notes, zero carb has definitely improved my lacking motivation. For like 7-8 years (since early high school), I've just been incredible unmotivated by anything despite how much I try to talk myself into it or tell myself how important it is. Finally, I've found motivation to do things again and not procrastinate on everything. Even this post.. I swear to you, before this diet I would've typed up half this post then told myself I would get back to it later today. Later today, I'd tell myself I'll take care of it tomorrow. You wouldn't be seeing this for at least another week lol.
Lastly, in some ways it has improved my cognition. I've had a few "good days" spread out over the last 5 weeks. Days that got nothing on what things were like before I got foggy but still the best days I've experienced since the cognitive decline 6 years ago. For me to suddenly go from none to multiple good days... I think it's safe to say the diet is doing something for me.

Have you watched the movie "Root Cause" on amazon

magoo2 said...
Have you watched the movie "Root Cause" on amazon

No but I will now