My Eye is Twitching!

United States
July 2, 2008 11:05am CST
Have any of you had this? The nerve under my right eye is jumping and it is getting on my nerves! lol! I feel like I am blinking all the time! Anyone know what causes this to happen?
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@walijo2008 (4644)
• United States
2 Jul 08
Yeah, my eye used to do that all the time. Its just your nerves, theres really not anything you can do to stop it, I know it gets annoying tho. Mine done that for about a month one time, it drove me crazy, I think my doctor told me to put a warm cloth on it several times a day for a few minutes, he said it might help calm the nerves. After awhile it quit doing it.
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• United States
2 Jul 08
I want to hold that nerve to try and stop it, but it still is fluttering away! Maybe it will get tired and stop! lol!
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@kosstr12 (245)
• United States
2 Jul 08
I hate when that happens! I have no idea why it happens, but it's extremely annoying. Sorry I can't help.
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• United States
2 Jul 08
Thank you kosstr. Yes it is annoying!
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@kiwikidz (753)
• New Zealand
3 Jul 08
I get it quite often and it quite annoying as it goes on for some time, not great when on computer or doing handcraft. I wonder if it is tiredness or when you are concentrating on close work.
@cupid74 (11388)
• Pakistan
3 Jul 08
hi dear it happenes some times and if u r superstitious then it have differnt meaning, but if not then their might be some medical logic behind it. may be some supply of oxygen to cells, but if it happened to me, its ok after few minutes take care blinking beaty, lol
@Cocoa33 (921)
• United States
3 Jul 08
hi. my mother has the same thing happen to her. i get the idea that its an indicator that something is going to happen before it does. it can be something that has happen that she doesn't know about, but will. it can be good or bad.
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@janisvg18 (181)
• Singapore
3 Jul 08
it happened to me before! i was told that one factor for eye twitching is stress. that time, when my eye was twitching, i was so stressed with work! full of overtime and totally no social life! when our team was able to finish the project, my eye gradually got better. :)
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@lucy02 (5015)
• United States
2 Jul 08
I worked for an eye doctor for several years and I was having a similar problem. He told me it was stress. I've noticed it more when not sleeping well and also when I'm sick with some kind of infection. Of course all that seems to be related to stress too.
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• United States
2 Jul 08
ive had it happe n its called a nervous tic no I dont know what causes it but it can be a nuisance
• United States
2 Jul 08
I used to have that happen all the time. What i found out is that I was not getting enough REM sleep. I would sleep for hours but it was never REM. I ended up going to a sleep study and found that I have Sleep Apnea. (I stop breathing in the middle of the night.) which would wake me and never let me sleep right. My sleep study showed that I would wake up 57 times in an hour. Do that math that is almost one time a minute I would stop breathing and wake myself up. Once I got that taken care of I very Seldom have that problem, ubt when I do it is always because I stayed up too late or did not get enough sleep.
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@Winter08 (441)
• Canada
2 Jul 08
I had that eye twitch several years ago. So very irritating!!! During my work week, my food consisted of: Breakfast: black coffee and a bag of peanuts from the Mac's store. Lunch: black coffee and a bag of peanuts from the Mac's store. Evening meal: I can't remember but it was always the same thing (I had no energy and no interest in food variations ... just whatever was easiest to grab on the go.) Having had my twice daily coffee/peanut meals for a couple of years, one day I had to change it because Mac's was out of peanuts. I bought a bag of taco chips as an alternative meal. The chips tasted soooo good that I started doing coffee/taco chip meals. After several days of this change in eating, I started noticing that very annoying under-the-eye twitch. It was constant, always there, wouldn't GO AWAY!!! Drove me nuts! Now, the only change I had made in my life was adding the taco chips. So ... I stopped eating them and returned to my peanuts. The twitch disappeared. My conclusion: something in those chips was affecting a nerve/muscle under my eye. My guess was the chemicals used in the processing/preserving of them as I read the ingredients before I started eating the chips to be sure I wasn't allergic to anything in them.
• United States
2 Jul 08
Hi Winter, I never really thought about that. My eating habits haven't changed in the last few days. This has been going on for about 4 days now and it is doing it right now as I type! Ugh!
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@smallT (376)
• United States
2 Jul 08
I've had that happen to me for about 3 months and then it stopped. It was very annoying. You might want to have an eye doctor check out the nerve to make sure it isn't damaged if it keeps bothering you.
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