u/datenschutz21

33M, 6’2, 180 lbs, non-smoker, and no family history of brain cancer or neurological disorders.

Last Thursday, my left upper eyelid started twitching. I originally thought it was probably from lack of sleep, stress, and anxiety since I had been under a tight work deadline that I finished late Wednesday night. The twitch lasts for several seconds, is a visible ripple/twitch under the skin, and occurs throughout the day (although closing my eye makes it maybe a little less intense).

The twitching continued and I’ve progressively become more and more anxious about it (I suffer from health anxiety and had been doing significantly better until this happened). On Monday, I woke up and noticed that my left jaw felt really tight/tense. It almost felt like I was having spasms/quivering there but I didn’t see anything when looking at the mirror. On Monday night, I was looking at my face (and ironically was thinking that the eyelid was happening a little less frequently) and noticed a small and very brief ripple (more like spasm) in my cheek on the same side.

Yesterday (Tuesday) and today I’ve continued to notice the twitches in both my eyelid and cheek (maybe jaw as well; jaw and cheek area feel really tense). The eyelid is definitely more of a twitch and lasts longer whereas the cheek looks like a brief spasm and is a lot shorter in duration. Sometimes they occur at the same time or in close proximity but other times it’s just one or the other. No numbness, tingling, etc. can fully smile and open mouth. Face isn’t drooping.

I have an appointment Friday late afternoon with my PCP and am completely freaking out that I have a brain tumor or ALS. My wife thinks it’s probably anxiety and stress along with me being hyperfocused on it. I also came across hemifacial spasm but that seems like it generally takes much longer to spread than what I’m experiencing.

Any thoughts on what’s going on? TIA!

Edit: in case it’s relevant, I did see an ophthalmologist and have an eye exam in June and he took a bunch of pics of eye and I recall him saying that my optic nerves looked fine

Second edit: added a comment that includes a video of the cheek ripple/spasm (not sure why Reddit zoomed it further in)

33M, 6’2, 180 lbs, non-smoker, and no family history of brain cancer or neurological disorders.

Last Thursday, my left upper eyelid started twitching. I originally thought it was probably from lack of sleep, stress, and anxiety since I had been under a tight work deadline that I finished late Wednesday night. The twitch lasts for several seconds, is a visible ripple/twitch under the skin, and occurs throughout the day (although closing my eye makes it maybe a little less intense).

The twitching continued and I’ve progressively become more and more anxious about it (I suffer from health anxiety and had been doing significantly better until this happened). On Monday, I woke up and noticed that my left jaw felt really tight/tense. It almost felt like I was having spasms/quivering there but I didn’t see anything when looking at the mirror. On Monday night, I was looking at my face (and ironically was thinking that the eyelid was happening a little less frequently) and noticed a small and very brief ripple (more like spasm) in my cheek on the same side.

Yesterday (Tuesday) and today I’ve continued to notice the twitches in both my eyelid and cheek (maybe jaw as well; jaw and cheek area feel really tense). The eyelid is definitely more of a twitch and lasts longer whereas the cheek looks like a brief spasm and is a lot shorter in duration. Sometimes they occur at the same time or in close proximity but other times it’s just one or the other. No numbness, tingling, etc. can fully smile and open mouth. Face isn’t drooping.

I have an appointment Friday late afternoon with my PCP and am completely freaking out that I have a brain tumor or ALS. My wife thinks it’s probably anxiety and stress along with me being hyperfocused on it. I also came across hemifacial spasm but that seems like it generally takes much longer to spread than what I’m experiencing.

Any thoughts on what’s going on? TIA!

Edit: in case it’s relevant, I did see an ophthalmologist and have an eye exam in June and he took a bunch of pics of eye and I recall him saying that my optic nerves looked fine

Second edit: added a comment that includes a video of the cheek ripple/spasm (not sure why Reddit zoomed it further in)

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