Just call me Twitchy.

[yendi]

No, not the guy behind the cut tag. Me. My left eye has been twitching for the last few days. It could be stress-driven (especially since we're traveling tomorrow), but since that's never happened before, I suspect it's something else. Fortunately, the potential causes range from minor things (like lack of sleep or staring a monitor for too long) to fun things like neurological disorders. I figure I'll see how things look next week before I freak out.

In the meantime, if you think I'm winking at you like a hyperactive Sarah Palin at a nationally-televised debate, I'm not, gosh-darn it.

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Comments

[siliconshaman.livejournal.com]

I knew a girl like that at Uni...it was generally agreed that no-one should ever give her caffeinated beverages on account of space/time rips are hard to fix.

Your eye could just be a slight infection. usually clears up. Or stress tensing the muscles and compressing a cranial nerve.

[feste-sylvain.livejournal.com]

I've had that before. Sometimes, it lasted for a few weeks.

But so far, it's always gone away. I rarely have it, and never for more than 10% of any given year.

It's probably stress-related.

"Most web searches for symptoms will come back with the most dramatic solutions, not the most likely ones." -- Scientific American

[misskitten77.livejournal.com]

I use to get twitching quite a bit, but it was caused by an old glasses prescription. So, it could be its time for an eye exam. That's my 3-cents (yup, everything's going up nowadays).

[chebutykin.livejournal.com]

That started happening to me within the last year, and it was constant for months. Stress made it worse, but it never really went away regardless of stress levels.

What *did* help was that I started taking magnesium chloride supplements once per day. It can be easily found in drug stores under the brand name "Slow Mag". Regular magnesium supplements also helped, but not quite as completely as magnesium chloride.

Eye twitching can also be caused by a calcium deficiency, but since folks are usually pretty aware of their calcium intake these days, magnesium chloride deficiency is more often the culprit. Zinc and potassium are also key ions in proper muscle operation, so they're also possibilities.

[yendi]

Hmm. It's been a few years. I'll need to check out that possibility.