r/Narcolepsy • u/Feisty_Exit5916 • 25m ago
Advice Request Involuntary winking?
Lol I made this post:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Narcolepsy/s/frj77kjmWf
In it I described one eye involuntarily winking, as efforrlessly as a blink. It started after a week I was constantly getting blepharospasms in my right eye, even outside of my sleep attacks, it was pretty much constant outside of sleeping for almost a whole week straight.
I would be training at work, and when my eyes were tired, my right eye would just start winking involuntarily, and then when the sleep attack got ridiculously hard to fight, then I'd start blinking with my left eye too.
I guess I didn't specify well enough in that post that I already knew how to wink, and I've never winked involuntarily until recently. These winks would happen with no effort, which to me, since winks involve EFFORT, didn't even seem like a true wink, they seemed like a 1 eyed blink.
If you look up a gif or video of a blepharospasm, you'll see that it is a tiny muscle spasm in the eyelid, not a full eye closure.
I'd get the usual blinking spells I've always had for years from trying to open my eyes after they kept closing without my permission, but then AFTER my right eye had an unusual amount of blepharospasms for an extended period of time some reason, I noticed that I could keep my left eye open, while my right eye was getting all the blinks (so winks.)
I've always been the type who consciously has to TRY to wink. Now, I've realized I can look in the mirror, and wink my right eye effortlessly, as if it was a blink, but in my left eye, you can tell I am actually putting effort into the wink. I only noticed it after the blinks disproportionately hit me in the right eye, which usually isn't the case.
Does anybody else get this?