Thursday, 3 September 2009

Eyelid Twitching

A couple of months ago one of my upper eye lid kept twitching constantly (and I do mean constantly non-stop no matter what I did)!!! Now I remember traditionally in the Chinese culture, it is known that if your eyelid twitches (I forgot left / right hand side), it  means something bad will happen. Just for fun, I thought I'll ask Dr Google to find out if it's the left or right hand side. I also thought I should investigate what caused my eye lid to twitch (as it usually twitches only a max. of a few minutes).....but this time it went on for DAYS!!!! : \

Anyway, to my surprise, there were actually A LOT and A LOT of people who wondered the same questions as me! In particular I found this blog about eye twitching which was written 6 years ago, but the blog post just kept growing even up to now, people are still making comments on it!!! Interestingly it doesn't offers any cures or even scientific explanations on the matter, but it just so happened to be one of the first few search results returned by Google! It's truly amazing tho to see how so many people share the same pain of eye twitching!!! lol but it's true, so true!!! This blog posts actually already has over 2000 of blog posts where people just want to share their unberable pain to others!!! : O

URL: Eyelid Twitcing blog post

It's defintely one fascinating topic!!! : P

ps - It was lucky that it only lasted a week or two for me!!!
pps - In Chinese myth, it was said that 'left eye' means 'bad will happen'! : O
ppps - Apparently eyelid twitching is due to fatigue, stress and pressure (bingo! for me!!!)....but not sure how correct this fact is tho!

4 comments:

  1. I had similar problem - my "bottom lid" of left eye had twitches for about a year - it stopped before I came here, and I am still not sure what caused it... :P

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  2. Various Possible Medical Causes For Unusual Eyelid Twitching / Eye Blinking


    Well, in terms of medical explanations, under usual and non-congenital circumstances, the annoying eye twitch would normally be caused by the not so serious factors as follows : -



    # Stress
    # Tiredness
    # Eyestrain
    # Caffeine
    # Alcohol
    # Dry eyes
    # Nutritional imbalances
    # Allergies


    Next, under such situations, such annoying symptoms would usually come and go within a very short period of time and certainly the conditions would get better and better from time to time especially when certain related treatments are sought and administered to deal with the symptom.


    However, under rare circumstances when the eye twitch symptom just get progressively and chronically and seriously unmitigated from bad to worse as well as seem to last permanently even when all sorts of related treatments are adminstered upon such illness to deal with it, such non-stop eye twitching symptom may then simply just manifest as one of the serious neuromuscular / neurological symptoms of :


    # Tardive Dyskinesia (rapid involuntary uncontrollable eye blinking / eye twitching), which in most cases are caused by the neuromuscular / neurological side effects of certain powerful mind-altering medications and other neurological complications. Whilst the underlying mechanism of such a disease is such that the normal functionings of the neurotransmitters chemical dopamine which co-ordinates the miscellaneous human body movements in this case are disturbed, antagonized and disrupted in this case resulting in one's loss of control of human body movements, and in this case, one's eye / eyelids organ.




    Related Information :


    http://www.bettervisionforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=79

    http://www.bettervisionforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2

    http://silkwise.com/content/viewthread_thread,4243

    http://www.curezone.com/forums/fm.asp?i=1428920#i

    http://www.curezone.com/forums/fm.asp?i=1428915#i

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  3. Wow! Thanks Mike for the detailed info! : ) Will definitely take a good look at it. Cheers!

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  4. Sorry Smita, I'm no expert in this, but sounds like a visit to the doc is wise. Hopefully your eyelid is all fine now! Best wishes!

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