# Eye twitching is going to drive me to drink **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [December 28, 2006, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eye-twitching-is-going-to-drive-me-to-drink/385864 "2006-12-28T15:23:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![ZomZom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zomzom/32/5620_2.png) [@ZomZom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZomZom)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2006, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eye-twitching-is-going-to-drive-me-to-drink/385864/21 "2006-12-29T15:08:24Z")
I have this problem when I don’t get enough sleep. I can feel it twitch but nobody can see it. Get some rest. ---
**Author:** ![Poysyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Poysyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poysyn)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2006, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eye-twitching-is-going-to-drive-me-to-drink/385864/22 "2006-12-29T15:44:59Z")
Got lots of sleep last night - didn’t help. Gonna try again tonight. Thanks very much. ---
**Author:** ![Snickers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Snickers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snickers)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2006, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eye-twitching-is-going-to-drive-me-to-drink/385864/23 "2006-12-29T17:21:13Z")
Are you stressed about something? That’s why my eyelid twitches. Once the stressor goes away (finals, in my case, a number of years ago), the twitching stops. Could it just be the stress of the holidays? ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2006, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eye-twitching-is-going-to-drive-me-to-drink/385864/24 "2006-12-29T17:51:22Z")
Not to make you worry, but I had a near-constant twitch in my lower left eyelid for many months, almost a year. Some people evidently report having “the twitch” for years. In my case it did finally stop a couple of months ago. Surprisingly (considering the near-homicidal level of frustration it had caused me for the better part of a year) it took me a few days to notice it had stopped. If you haven’t seen it already, [this site](http://www.blogd.com/archives/000253.html) has a long list of complaints and suggested remedies posted by fellow twitchers. (None of the suggestions seemed to help in my case, but caffeine/lack of sleep did seem to aggravate the tremor.) Hope yours is much shorter-lived. I wanted to gouge my own eye out sometimes. ---
**Author:** ![Poysyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Poysyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poysyn)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2006, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eye-twitching-is-going-to-drive-me-to-drink/385864/25 "2006-12-29T18:18:45Z")
[QUOTE=Vinyl Turnip] Not to make you worry, but I had a near-constant twitch in my lower left eyelid for many months, almost a year. Some people evidently report having “the twitch” for years. In my case it did finally stop a couple of months ago. Surprisingly (considering the near-homicidal level of frustration it had caused me for the better part of a year) it took me a few days to notice it had stopped. If you haven’t seen it already, [this site](http://www.blogd.com/archives/000253.html) has a long list of complaints and suggested remedies posted by fellow twitchers. (None of the suggestions seemed to help in my case, but caffeine/lack of sleep did seem to aggravate the tremor.) Hope yours is much shorter-lived. I wanted to gouge my own eye out sometimes. [/QUOTE] DEAR GOD! I think I would get Botox and freeze the muscle before it gets to a year! You are a much stronger person than I! ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2006, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eye-twitching-is-going-to-drive-me-to-drink/385864/26 "2006-12-29T19:52:08Z")
[QUOTE=Poysyn] DEAR GOD! I think I would get Botox and freeze the muscle before it gets to a year! [/QUOTE] I considered that, but a) the expense, b) the temporary nature of Botox, and c) the unlovely prospect of having a needle jabbed into my eyelid (multiple times?) made me decide to ride it out instead. ---
**Author:** ![tbdi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3bc359/32.png) [@tbdi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tbdi)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2006, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eye-twitching-is-going-to-drive-me-to-drink/385864/27 "2006-12-29T20:04:33Z")
The good thing now is that when I get the twitch I now I need to relax and figure out if I’m just overly tired or actually getting stressed about something. It’s become an early warning sign and I figure it’s a heck of a lot better than high blood pressure or other things that I would never notice until too late. I’ve actually learned to appreciate it. ---
**Author:** ![born\_too\_late](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ba9def/32.png) [@born\_too\_late](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/born_too_late)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2006, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eye-twitching-is-going-to-drive-me-to-drink/385864/28 "2006-12-29T21:29:07Z")
I think I heard somewhere that it might be due to a potassium deficiency. Try eating some bananas. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eye-twitching-is-going-to-drive-me-to-drink/385864.md?page=1)