{"id":296,"date":"2005-04-28T10:48:17","date_gmt":"2005-04-28T07:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/archives\/2005\/04\/28\/tic-toc"},"modified":"2005-04-28T10:58:39","modified_gmt":"2005-04-28T07:58:39","slug":"tic-toc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/2005\/04\/28\/tic-toc","title":{"rendered":"Tic toc"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have a very persistent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bartleby.com\/61\/34\/T0203400.html\">tic<\/a> on my lower eyelid. It feels like my eye is bulging out my skull (intentional reference to Green Day&#8217;s <em>Brainstew<\/em>). I hate it!<\/p>\n<p>It doesn&#8217;t matter when for example one of my fingers is twitching (my right thumb has a mind of her own), or eyebrow, or back, but a tic around the eye makes the field of vision jitter. Once I had a tic in my back for a long time and the next day the surrounding muscles were really sore. Now I&#8217;m just getting a little motion sickness and headache&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Is there any remedy for these? Ouch.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"wotd\">Tic, Myokymia<\/span> &#8212;  A habitual spasmodic muscular movement or contraction, usually of the face or extremities (Bartleby.com); twitch typically brought on by stress or fatigue (Allaboutvision.com)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a very persistent tic on my lower eyelid. It feels like my eye is bulging out my skull (intentional reference to Green Day&#8217;s Brainstew). I hate it! It doesn&#8217;t matter when for example one of my fingers is twitching (my right thumb has a mind of her own), or eyebrow, or back, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellany","category-wotd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}