My right eye is driving me mad. It has been steadily twitching for the past few days (since Christmas Eve).
AHHHHH!
So, are you looking for drink suggestions or eye-twitching remedies?
I get this as a precursor to migraine. My doctor put me on a preventative medication that stops it within a few minutes, provided I catch it early. Before I got put on Frova, I had eye twitches that went on continuously for two weeks. You may want to go get checked out, just in case.
If you have suggestions to stop the eye twitching I would love them.
If you have drink suggestions I am done work at four, you can pick me up then.
Have you had anyone winking back? 
No winks back, but a few strange looks from people alog the lines of “WTF is up with that eye?”
Here’s some actual information, for what it’s worth:
OKay - so now I am sitting in my cubicle, gently massaging my eyeball. I also do not buy the “it’s not noticable by other people” thing.
More weird looks.
Sigh.
Have you been consuming an unusually large amount of caffeine lately? I get eye twitches from that, and cutting back on the caffeine usually makes them go away. Of course, if I’m consuming unusually large amounts of caffeine, stress, fatigue, and lack of sleep are usually in the picture, as well…
I don’t think any more than usual, but I am tired. Too much to do and not enough time to do it.
Yawn.
A certain French detective hasn’t been irritating you lately, has he?
People don’t notice the actual twitching, they notice the scared “am I looking like a weirdo?” look on your face and wonder if you are letting out a silent fart that you are not sure if it will smell or something. Look at yourself in a mirror while it is happening and convince yourself.
I got those a lot at the end of high-school and the beginning of college. Then they disappeard as mysteriously as they appeared. I tried the massaging thing but it didn’t make it go away any faster. Just gave me something to do while it went off and helped me cover my paranoia face.
During the same period, I suffered a similar twitching in my right thumb, that one was fairly noticeable to me when I looked at it intently. Nothing anyone else would pickup or that prevented use of the hand, though. Squeezing a couple fists usually took care of those.
Hrm, when my eye twitches it is very noticable. Someone once told me it looked like bugs crawling under the skin. The whole lower lid would bulge and spasm for a second or two, then stop. Repeat ad nauseum every 3-5 minutes for what seemed like eternity.
Thank you Sapo, you are giving me some light at the end of the tunnel.
I am thinking maybe “apply large amounts of margarita” may work as well.
So irritating!
I take it you posted this before reading XJETGIRLX’s post. Is that the sound of a bubble popping? I guess YMMV
I would prescribe Johnny Walker but if you say it is Margarita, go ahead.
Of course they notice it. My eye, usually the right one, twitches something fierce sometimes and other people see it. People remark on it (“Hey, did you know your eyelid is, like jumping?”) or give me odd looks when it happens. I don’t find massage helps. Sometimes you just gotta wait it out until it stops as mysteriously as it started.
Calcium/magnesium supplements and a drink of tonic water every day will take care of it, I think.
I used to have eye twitches a lot. Coincidentally (or not) they stopped after I started on anti-hypertension drugs. Turns out there were lots of signs I had high blood pressure that I didn’t recognize.
Coffee, well too much of it, gives me an eye twitch. But everyone can see mine. When I overwork my triceps they also twitch as well. Both are VERY irritating but temporary.
I had that in the left eyelid for a period of a few weeks before it finally drove me to get it checked. A light touch would stop it, sometimes for several minutes, but it kept coming back and was incredibly annoying.
The tech ran me through a few tests and then some sort of intern reviewed the info with me and told me it was likely too much caffeine (which did not make sense) and not enough sleep (which did). Then the doctor who owned the practice came in and told me I was on the verge of glaucoma and I needed to take regular supplements which, by coincidence, he happened to sell. He also had a book for sale about it if I was interested.
Smelling snake oil I went to another doctor who asked me if I was having extra stress lately. I told him it had been a hard few weeks at work just before it started but now the only major stress I had was the eye twitching and wondering what it was leading to. He laughed and told me to relax about that since it was nothing and within 24 hours it was gone.
I’ve gotten a few times since but generally just for a few hours and always when I’m overtired and overstressed.
Chances are it’s nothing serious but get it checked anyway.