damaged nerve cells or lack of sleep. More rarely, muscle twitching can be affected by medical conditions such as Serotonin syndrome, Lou Gehrig's Disease, Isaacs' syndrome or kidney disease.

When should I worry about an eye twitch? The NHS writes that an eye twitch (or indeed any other muscle twitch) that lasts ...

Muscle twitching is a general term for muscle contractions. Your muscles are made up of fibers that your nerves control. Stimulating or damaging a nerve can cause muscle fibers to twitch.

For severe but benign muscle twitches, a doctor may prescribe nerve modulating medications like gabapentin “to hopefully reduce how frequent and bothersome the twitches are,” Dr. Jacobson says.

If the twitching impairs your vision or lasts longer ... It's the temporary compression of nerves that's the actual culprit. The signals to the spine and brain are interrupted when the nerve ...

Feng, T. P., Lee, L. Y., Meng, C. W., and Wang, S. C., Chin. J. Physiol., 13, 79 (1938).

Emily Bedrick Graubart, MD There are several different things that can cause eyelid twitches. Anything that irritates the eye like a dry-eye syndrome or blepharitis, which means inflammation of ...