Eye twitch.............?!
Question: Eye twitch..............?
I've had a constant twitch under my eye for about a week or so now. I have had eye twitches before but for a few hours.
Do I need to see a doc.?
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Do I need to see a doc.?
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Answers:
It's called a "Tic"...
NOT like in Tourette's syndrome.
I get these occasionally - usually upper right eye (the one that's long sighted and so comes under strain when working with a monitor)
On the subject of monitors - turn up your refresh rate to the highest it'll go.
If you don't know how, go to the desktop and press F1 and search help for refresh rate.
It'll tell you how to sort it out.
Anyway:
As the winter draws in, more and more people complain of this as the sun is lower (see end) and it's colder and the wind is dryer...
It's a nervous response to nervous stimuli (obviously...).
Whether this be through tiredness, eye-strain, stress, physical muscle fatigue, whatever - it's annoying.
You can get homoeopathic, herbal remedies to help.
I recommend that you spend an hour or so with either a slice of cucumber or a cooled chamomile teabag over each eye.
It is not necessarily SLEEP that is the problem - it is exhaustion and fatigue.
This could be from stress, ocular muscular exertion (as the lady says, glasses and eyestrains from computers), lack of REST and nervous excitement and / fatigue.
Remember that fatigue and excitement, like hypothermia, are one and the same...
It's all just another form or arousal.
This Tic that you have is very common - but to have it last longer than a day is unusual.
Try resting for an hour and relaxing (remember to focus on your breathing), lying down with the cucumber / chamomile over your eyes.
Repeat it as often as you can throughout the day - you can even get special eye masks that do all this, so you can just put it on and kick back for five minutes...
It encourages relaxation to have a coolness over the eyes and the properties of Cucumber (almost said CUMber then...me and my gutter mind...) and Chamomile have a relaxing touch.
Don't forget to drink the Chamomile tea before it gets cold!
If, after a night's rest (be it sleep or otherwise), the tic is still there:
Take everyone's advice and go and see your GP about it.
It could be a sign of something else.
I'm not trying to scare you, but it's best to get it checked out.
Your GP will probably tell you the same things I've just said.
He may say more, that I'm not going to.
But he may decide that, if it's annoying you enough, he'll prescribe something.
But it's best to get these things at the source than to take drugs to relax the twitching muscles.
They twitch because they're over used, muscularly or nervously.
Rest issues aside:
Are you squinting a lot at the moment.?
Try wearing sunglasses when you drive...
In the UK, the sun's very low in the sky at the moment and it means squinting whenever you have to drive into the sun unless you have a tinted windscreen or visor or are wearing a good pair of sunglasses...Health Question & Answer
NOT like in Tourette's syndrome.
I get these occasionally - usually upper right eye (the one that's long sighted and so comes under strain when working with a monitor)
On the subject of monitors - turn up your refresh rate to the highest it'll go.
If you don't know how, go to the desktop and press F1 and search help for refresh rate.
It'll tell you how to sort it out.
Anyway:
As the winter draws in, more and more people complain of this as the sun is lower (see end) and it's colder and the wind is dryer...
It's a nervous response to nervous stimuli (obviously...).
Whether this be through tiredness, eye-strain, stress, physical muscle fatigue, whatever - it's annoying.
You can get homoeopathic, herbal remedies to help.
I recommend that you spend an hour or so with either a slice of cucumber or a cooled chamomile teabag over each eye.
It is not necessarily SLEEP that is the problem - it is exhaustion and fatigue.
This could be from stress, ocular muscular exertion (as the lady says, glasses and eyestrains from computers), lack of REST and nervous excitement and / fatigue.
Remember that fatigue and excitement, like hypothermia, are one and the same...
It's all just another form or arousal.
This Tic that you have is very common - but to have it last longer than a day is unusual.
Try resting for an hour and relaxing (remember to focus on your breathing), lying down with the cucumber / chamomile over your eyes.
Repeat it as often as you can throughout the day - you can even get special eye masks that do all this, so you can just put it on and kick back for five minutes...
It encourages relaxation to have a coolness over the eyes and the properties of Cucumber (almost said CUMber then...me and my gutter mind...) and Chamomile have a relaxing touch.
Don't forget to drink the Chamomile tea before it gets cold!
If, after a night's rest (be it sleep or otherwise), the tic is still there:
Take everyone's advice and go and see your GP about it.
It could be a sign of something else.
I'm not trying to scare you, but it's best to get it checked out.
Your GP will probably tell you the same things I've just said.
He may say more, that I'm not going to.
But he may decide that, if it's annoying you enough, he'll prescribe something.
But it's best to get these things at the source than to take drugs to relax the twitching muscles.
They twitch because they're over used, muscularly or nervously.
Rest issues aside:
Are you squinting a lot at the moment.?
Try wearing sunglasses when you drive...
In the UK, the sun's very low in the sky at the moment and it means squinting whenever you have to drive into the sun unless you have a tinted windscreen or visor or are wearing a good pair of sunglasses...Health Question & Answer
I often get a twitch, but above my eye...it usually only last for a short time though. I get paranoid and think that everyone must be able to see it twitching! Go to your GP or an optometrist for an eye test, better to get it checked out than worry yourself about it! All the best.Health Question & Answer
I was actually in a psychologist's office one day and he was asking me about my sleeping habits and if I was getting enough rest. Right then my eye started twitching and he told me that it was a sign of tiredness.Health Question & Answer
give yourself a good night's sleep, and if you wake up feeling great in the morning, but the twitch is still there, go see a doc.Health Question & Answer
Had this myself a while ago, i thought it might be if i had been sat in front of the computer for to long, do you use your computer much.?Health Question & Answer
Sometimes eye twitches are a sign of tiredness.
Try going to bed early one night and see if its any better in the morning, if not then i would see a doctor (:Health Question & Answer
Try going to bed early one night and see if its any better in the morning, if not then i would see a doctor (:Health Question & Answer
See a gp if it bothers you, you could have Tourette syndrome but it's probably unlikely. Health Question & Answer
Go and have your eyes tested - I had this and it was my eyes being strained - I got glasses and it stopped.Health Question & Answer
I usually get that when I'm tiredHealth Question & Answer
id say its either lack of good nights sleep, or stress.
get some sleep and it shud go away.Health Question & Answer
get some sleep and it shud go away.Health Question & Answer
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Go to a doctor.
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