Jen...
I am assuming, by this post, that you feel the progesterone cream you are using causes your eye to twitch. I don't really know about that, but I do know that I used to suffer with an intermittent eye twitch that was very irritating about 15 years ago (when I was in my late 30's). Perhaps you know for sure that the progesterone is causing it, but I wanted to share my experience with you because you mentioned depression and the twitch stopping after you were on a fun trip to Las Vegas.
I was very distraught about my eye twitch... there was no pain with it, although I could feel when it twitched, but it was very obvious and often others would call my attention to it. I also suffered with on and off depression. I went to a neurologist, and did the whole nine yards with a brain scan and everything. He could find no physiological problem and told me it was due to stress. Of course, I thought that was ludicrous, even though my life was in somewhat of a turmoil with family members' problems. I went for a second opinion from UC San Francisco Medical Center. They confirmed the first doctor's diagnosis that it was stress-related. I was flabergasted, to say the least. I was prescribed Tegretol to stop the twitching, which it did, but had to have my blood checked every so often for side effects. I soon became weary of that and discontinued the Tegretol. Sometime after this, I experienced some chest pains and ended up in the ER, where they also found no physiological problems, and told me the pains were stress-related. I was doubly flabergasted. I had difficulty correlating the eye twitch and chest pains with stress because they never occurred at the times I was FEELING stressed menatlly, but several days to a couple of weeks afterwards. The doctors told me that was how it worked, but I found that hard to believe.
It was only in retrospect that I could agree with all of the doctors about the stress causing these two things to happen to my body. I was told by all of them, at the time, that stress works in strange ways upon your body, if you do not pay attention to it beforehand. I am very sure now that my eye twitch and chest pains were, indeed, stress-related. A few months after the chest pains (and my eye again twitching), my then-husband put me on a plane for Honolulu, under false pretenses, and filed for a divorce a few days after I was gone (whole other story). I realized, while tanning myself in the Hawaiian sun, that my eye twitch had disappeared, and that it had disappeared as soon as I was on that plane, on my way away from home.
My eye twitch has never returned to this day, I have never again had chest pains, and the depression I had back then is, for the most part, a thing of the past. I might also add that I am also rid of that man from my life. I am certain now that my eye twitch was stress-related, just as those doctors told me it was. I am wondering if your eye twitch might also have something to do with your depression (and possible stress) like mine did?
(Edited by Kalanie at 10:20 pm on July 27, 2001)