Grancey

I'm on day two of an annoying eye twitch. Anyone got any homestyle remedies? Anyone?

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Cimarron29414

It happens to me too sometimes. It's usually stress for me. Only solution, reduce stress. I find a bottle of 12-year Macallan and a quaich does the trick.

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Baraka_Guru

Yeah... reduce stress/get more sleep.

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Grancey

I was hoping for an easy answer like a tea bag. Reduce stress? Yeah, right. Okay. Thanks, guys. Maybe a walk will help.

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Grasshopper Green

My husband tells me to eat a banana when I get twitchies, something about one of the vitamins or minerals in the banana calming the muscular contractions. I've never tried it (we never have bananas when it happens to me), but he swears it works.

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Baraka_Guru

In terms of muscle contractions and relaxation, calcium and magnesium play a big role. For relaxation, magnesium is important. Eat those leafy greens.

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Cimarron29414

Clearly, you have never tried The Macallan.

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Grancey

Bananas and leafy greens. I have been lacking in both lately, so you may have something. I know magnesium is good for leg cramps, but I never thought about it helping with an eye twitch. Both are muscle related, so duh....

I think I'll have a salad before I try The McCallan.

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Starkizzer

It is the potassium in bananas that help with muscle cramps, twitches and pains.

However, this may not be the cause of your eye twitch. It most often happens to me when I am tired and like other have said, stressed. Try making sure you are getting plenty of sleep and doing things that will at least calm your nerves. Sip tea, listen to soothing music, long relaxing strolls, etc.

If it keeps up for too long you may want to go see your doctor, as it may be something else causing it. I remember when I was younger, my grandma's eye kept twitching for a week. When she finally went in to see the eye doctor, he found and removed and very long and very thing piece of hair.

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-mia

i did a chem project back in the day about potassium. most eye twitches are caused by a potassium deficiency. a good source of potassium can be found in bananas. so have a banana. hope you feel better

Zeraph

I'm going to 2nd bananas. Sometimes twitching can be the result of having low potassium and there's a ton of it in bananas. I like spelling bananas. its like I don't know where to end the word. I feel like I could just sit there and go on and on like bananananananaananas.

healer

Usually, a walk outside in the sunshine sorts mine out. Mine are mostly stress-induced, but staring into a computer monitor for 8 hours a day doesn't help either.

So have your salad and go for a walk. Should straighten you right out.

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Grancey

Actually, the walk in the sunshine and cold air did the trick: automatic stress reduction and the twitch really did lessen and was gone that night. It might have been on the way out anyway, but the walk felt great. I've got to make this a daily routine and leave the cell behind. Bananas are a good idea, but I don't like the idea of reaching for food when stressed out.

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