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Tick in right eye
Rhino
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I have a nervous tick in my right eye. Just keeps spasming. Doesn't hurt, but it's annoying. Started about a month ago. It comes and goes. What's this all about?
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Stress and potassium deficiency are the biggest culprits...I can't find a recent thread I swear just had this same topic--found!
Look into nutrients you might be missing out on (try some green vegetables and bananas/oranges/other fruit). If you've got that covered, fatigue and stress seem to be the other common causes of such a tic. Eye strain is essentially the only other "safe" cause. If it still persists then you'll probably want to look into seeing a doctor (since it may be a symptom of corneal damage, a neurological disorder or something else).
Makes sense. Both times I've tried to quit smoking I got a bad case of jimmy legs.
Excess stress
Constantly staring at a computer screen all day
Ease up on the caffeine, try some moderate daily exercise for stress relief, and ensure that each hour of computer use is followed by a 5-10 minute break looking at things at various depths. It's the same thing your eye doc or PCP will tell you.
It is very highly unlikely to be a vitamin or mineral deficiency. You can eat one banana a month and get more than enough potassium to stay in the normal range. Your body has excellent mechanisms in place to keep potassium on board. So unless you are taking a drug that specifically messes with potassium, don't worry about it.
And I don't want to derail the thread but what is it with Americans and Sodium/Potassium nowadays. Since cholesterol went out of style those poor ions are being blamed for everything.
Your friend doesn't know what he is talking about. The only people who need potassium supplementation are those taking drugs that specifically flush potassium out as a side effect or old people with certain health conditions. And yes, too much potassium can be a bad thing, but again, the body has mechanisms to flush it out and the only people who need to avoid potassium are those on certain drugs. I would stop paying for something that you're just pissing away.
Yeah I posted that other thread, I'm in the same boat as you. Quite honestly, for me I think it's a combination of stress and eye fatigue. I've been taking more breaks from my computer, which seems to help, and when my eye does start twitching I've been doing relaxation exercises until I have conciously relaxed - usually the tic goes away after I do this. Also sometimes I will massage my eye, this seems to help too. Like I said in that other thread, I've been doing plenty to combat it with extra sleep and extra vitamins/nutrients - those things helped less than reducing my stress and eye fatigue.
I'm hoping it goes away soon, we'll see. Best of luck to you!
Because they're the 2 ions responsible for the chemical process which allows neurons to fire, and we tend to get far more sodium than potassium in our diets when in fact its potassium that's needed in greater quantities than sodium for said process to occur. The body does indeed have mechanisms for flushing excess sodium and potassium, but I'd imagine constantly having your body flush away excess sodium isn't as healthy as maintaining a good balance. Whether you'd actually notice a difference yourself though, I have no idea.
Also, can you really get a month's worth of potassium in one banana?
TLDR; Potassium make brain worky.
Man I had this terrible image of a tick on your eyeball... and in the split second it took for the page to load my mind went WILD with the possibilities of how such a thing could happen. Alas, I now may never know!
Thing is, potassium is always the first to go. A high concentration of any of the other major electrolytes -- sodium, magnesium and calcium -- will push a lot of potassium out of the system, but it doesn't work the other way around. You eat more potassium, you just pee more potassium. This is because the other electrolytes are required for a wide variety of tasks in the body, whereas potassium is primarily needed by the neurons and they are pretty damn efficient at maintaining their potassium balance when potassium is limited. It's basically impossible to get too little potassium from your diet, unless you have severe prolonged diarrhea or there's something wrong with your metabolism, in which case a dietary supplement won't do much for you either.
Might get this for a twitch I have along my jaw. I've had it for about a year or so; though it is more mental than anything else.
See, it could be worse.
I've got the same problem with a toe. If i think about it twitching, it twitches a hell of a lot. If i think about it being still, it is either 100% still or moves so very slightly.
Good to know there are some solutions to this.
My body also moves by the force of my mental powers, you're not the only one out there bro.
Stay strong!
On topic. I think that if you can control it and it stays for a long time is just not a regular tic that will go away, If I had something twitching for 2 years I'd probably check that out.
It doesn't hurt to make a doctor visit and have your labs drawn to check not only for electrolyte balance but also your TG's and cholesterol. If you haven't been in a while then schedule a physical with your PCP.