I have this problem when I don’t get enough sleep. I can feel it twitch but nobody can see it.
Get some rest.
Got lots of sleep last night - didn’t help.
Gonna try again tonight.
Thanks very much.
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?
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 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.
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!
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.
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.
I think I heard somewhere that it might be due to a potassium deficiency. Try eating some bananas.