Eye Twitch Pesters Pediatrician for 10 Years

Doctors are trying to get a 3-D picture of what's cousin doctor -- or Lee -- his left -- the twitch as you can see it never stops. And he's been dealing with it for more than a decade. It's time to --... See More

Doctors are trying to get a 3-D picture of what's cousin doctor -- or Lee -- his left -- the twitch as you can see it never stops. And he's been dealing with it for more than a decade. It's time to -- in my left side of the phase. And then they did that for another year -- and then gradually. Went down into my chin. And down his neck and shoulder it's a rare condition called -- facial spasms. Vick is a pediatrician. He says -- -- twitching makes his young patients I'm comfortable. I'm listening to assess. The doctrine -- coaching you know. And I'm just used to -- pressure there. Right there it causes. Any facial spasm. UCLA neurosurgeon doctor Neil Martin says the condition is an accident of nature -- his official there bumping up against a pulsating artery. It is professionally. And socially quite disabling. But vick's problem had to twist not only did he have one artery putting pressure on his facial -- He actually had three album that were looped and pressing on the nurse. And this made the surgery much more challenging. This is very complex. Neurological real estate. Make that extremely complex to do a -- on -- Doctors would have to make a major cut Mubix well another medication Knorr floats not -- the stuff the spasms -- doctor Martin proposed another option. Relieving the pressure with a Teflon had inserted into a small incision behind the year. -- -- -- And I could -- batter. Is I still get a little -- in there but it's getting less and less. It'll be a few months before the spasms completely disappear but they eventually will. Vick says he feels more control than he has in ten years in Westwood -- to door ABC seven Eyewitness News.