not exactly wrinkles but facial muscle bunching?
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Sun Sep 09, 2012 8:03 pm

Ok, so please bear with me - I'm fairly young (27) and don't really have any problems with visible wrinkles as of yet. However, recently I noticed some frown lines/"elevens", whatever you want to call them. Well, I though that's what it was. I noticed something odd and I want to figure out what's going on.

I felt the skin right between my brows. The skin towards the left side feels definately bulgy compared to the skin on the right side. When I crease my brows, one crease line appears, but it is shifted towards the right and corresponds roughly to where the bulge on the left flattens out. If I massage this bulged area, which extends partially over my left brow, it is painful compared to massaging the non bulged muscles on the opposite side. I put a small heat pack on the area and massaged it for a while and the muscles in the area still seemed very tight and bunched.

I'm trying to figure out exactly what's going on and how it's related to the slight line that is actually there. I'm wondering if the lines that are in that area are actually caused by pinched muscles somehow and not just a wrinkle. Is this cause for concern? I suffer a lot from headaches and lead a very stressful life and just found out I have some adrenal imbalances. This will probably lead to wrinkles in the future so I'd like to stop it if I can. Again, sorry for any cluelessness - up until now I've only dealt with acne, not wrinkles.

free skin care · Sun Sep 09, 2012 8:53 pm

Do some research on tension headaches and magnesium deficiencies.

Chronic frowning can easily develop the muscles in a less than desirable way.

Sun Sep 09, 2012 11:37 pm

I've tried to do some research but since I really don't know what it is, any more specific keywords to search for would be great.

free skin care · Mon Sep 10, 2012 8:54 pm

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11918431

Just google tension headaches and magnesium.

this is just one possible solution. You mention you are stressed out all the time...

I'm coming at you as a person who literally had a headache from September of one year, and did not get relief until May the following year. Daily... nightly... extreme pain.

For me, I think it was triggered my a combo of stress, and excessive working out.

I one day sat down at the lat machine, did one pull down, and my vision went black. Freaked me out.

My doctor had me on pain releivers that did nothing for the pain, but looped me out. I ended up in the office of an osteopath. A very sweet man trained in China. He managed to pinpoint an area of muscular tension and knots. It took him about 6 visits to release it. And I've been painfree pretty much ever since.

I don't know if at that time I had a mag. deficiency.

But mag. seems to stop headaches in their tracks. And seemingly with no liver damage from regular pain meds.

Consult a physician... ask about it. Worth a shot.

Sat Sep 22, 2012 6:31 am

What kind of adrenal imbalances you have? Something showing in adrenal stress index?
I think Claudia's suggestion to see a physician was a good one.

I have a history of adrenal problems myself and for me it caused headaches. But mine were one-sided and happened on a certain time of the day.

Adrenal problems and high stress may mix up your mineral balance too, and more magnesium gets used up than normally.

I got a lot of help from Diana Schwarzbein books and I still follow that diet. I'd give you a link, but as I'm a newbie, I can't do that.

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