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Muscle spasm in left cheek

rytheguy71
rytheguy71
For the past couple of days, I have been having intermittent muscle spasms in my ledt cheek. I have been on warfarin for 5 months now, and changed from zoloft to lexapro in the last month. I am wondering if anyone has experienced spasms, specifically on one side of the face. I, of course, looked the symptoms up online and it's fot me worried. I dont feel bad or have problems with headaches, but of course brain tumor compeessing a nerve was one of the search results... Could a brain tumor cause dvt and pe?...
TossNTurn
TossNTurn
I had a muscle twitch under my left eye about a month or so ago. I also had a twitch in one thumb that came and went. Turns out it was some probiotic pills I was taking at that time. I stopped taking them and things got better.

I will say that I mentioned the twitch to a couple of doctors that I saw and no one seemed worried. The general consensus was that it was probably caused by stress.... this was before I realized that it went away when I stopped taking the pills.

I know also that if you're dehydrated and not getting enough electrolytes, you can get muscle twitches and spasms.

There's a lot of things that can cause twitching that AREN'T brain tumors and its much more likely you've got one of those. Try to think critically about what else you've got going on or what you've changed recently.
rytheguy71
rytheguy71
Thank you Toss, I have been alot better with my anxiety over the past couple of months, and when I think about it, it could be slight dehydration, as I was really busy at work the last couple of days and didnt drink as much water as I have been making myself drink. We left for vacation yesterday, and drove about 600 miles, and while I was drinking water, I am pretty sure my hydration levela have gone down somewhat.
SunnySoon
SunnySoon
I am about 5 months out from my PE and in the last month or so I've had lots of weird muscle twitches. Sometimes it's a certain spot in one leg, yesterday it was the back of my shoulder. I've had electrolytes tested regularly (like, every time I've been to the ER) and they have been normal. On the Facebook PE Awareness board it seems that people are regularly asking about muscle aches, spasms, etc. I've had so many odd symptoms come and go that I've just come to assume it's all just a strange part of recovery for me.

I have a sister who gets spasms under one eye every time her thyroid hormone levels get low. Our bodies have been through quite a trauma, it makes me wonder if some of the strange symptoms are just part of the body trying to re-balance itself.
rytheguy71
rytheguy71
Sounds like we had our pe's at about the same time, SunnySoon. I have also, in addition to the left cheek thing, had shoulder spasms and leg spasms. Everything is so intermittent, and I think since my docs all say that my clots were "idiopathic", it just freaks me out even more when I get a new or different ache or pain. When I look at it logically, I am pretty sure my clots were caused by the perfect storm of a tall, slightly overweight, dehydrated 42 year old man sitting in an ill fitting chair for hours at a time drinking coffee and no water working on a project for work. But when I let my mind get carried away I get hung up on what the symptoms might indicate, which is most likely not the case. Thank you for your reply, it is good to know that others out there are feeling the same things in their recovery.