What fixes it?

I can see my right eye lid twitching since maybe yesterday.

Once or twice my left eye as well.

I don't feel like looking for the last thread we had on this.


I'm dehydrated. . . don't drink enough fluids . . . . hard to explain why . . . .too much trouble to go to the rest room when I am out and out of the habit when I am home.

M.

is it your eye brow?
sometimes nerves can cause us to twitch, being anxious
I have had twitching before when I was manic...
low potasium levels can cause cramping, don't know about twitching.
I am not much help...sorry
and Drink more water!!!!!
your body needs water above anything to function properly...
nurse hat off.
((((HUGS))))
bizi

Thank you.
I'm eating a bowl of a cup and a half of endamame for a total of 1000 mgs of potassium).


M.

.......several years back, my eyelid twitched non-stop and I finally figured out in my case it was too much caffeine and not enuf sleep......

It can really get irritating I know!

Rae

Edamame beans also have magnesium in them. That also helps with twitching muscles.

Another high potassium source is V8 juice.

dear Mari

i too have had twitching in the past. i figured it was probably a magnesium thing after caving to a prolonged milk craving - [I]and then realizing hey! it's stopped. and that time it had got much worse than other spells - both eyes, almost all the time, and larger muscles (glut, thigh, i couldn't even sit comfortably sheesh!)

didn't know about the potassium but good to know.

i also get leg cramping in the morning sometimes when it is bad, and magnesium fixes that.

i take effervescent supplemtents of
-- mag + potassium (here given as a rehydration supplement)

having run out of that i now take
-- effervescent mag b1+b2+b6

i will have to look up your beans. the effervescent tabs i mentioned were bought "accidentally" by mom, and have yucky sweeteners in them. i am "finishing them off" before getting better ones because supplements are so expensive.

i hope the twitching stops soon. it is so annoying.

Hi Rrrae!!

MrsD what lovely snowdrops!

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My bet is on fatigue and/or too much caffeine... I had the eye twitching for a couple of weeks, and my neuro told me not to worry because of that reason.

It is annoying and concerning. I hope it stops quick!

Please suspend these 2 additional supplements for now:

1. that is too much Zinc and

2. that is too much B6!

Are you sure it is mgs - milligrams - on both those? - as opposed to %RDA or %AI (Adequate Intake).

Assuming they are in fact milligrams, as you have typed.....

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on B6:
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1. B6 additional supplement: The Adequate Intake (AI, formerly RDA) for B6, females 19-50 is 1.3 mg (MILLIGRAMS). did you mean 100% (PERCENT) AI? Very big safety difference. Please check the back of the bottle minutiously, noting whether it says mg or %.

100 mg with your other sources could bring you to a neurotoxic intake level. 100 mg total daily B6 is considered the uppermost tolerable limit. remember you get some in food! 1 cup of chick peas already gives you half of what you need in one day (50% AI).

2. Multivitamin supplement: Please check the %RDA or %AI (adequate intake) of the B's contained in your multivitamin. Many multivits provide 100% to what we need, or close. if it already contains ~100% (which is ~ 1.3 mg) or more of B6, that should be plenty, supplement-wise.

A caution on multivits: There are many products that are called B-100, B-50 or similar etc. They are misleading. The labeling intuitively suggests a percentage whereas the '100' actually refers to mass measure. For instance, the B-100's provide 100 mg (in some cases mcg) of each B vit. That is totally unbalanced in terms of requirements. For B6, since 100mg is the tolerability threshold, that amount is also potentially dangerous, depending on the person's diet and other supplements. Hopefully you do not have this kind.

that's percent. not milligrams. i am sorry if i was confusing going back and forth between the units and the percentage RDA.

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on ZINC:
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the RDA/AI is 15mg. you can go up to 30 mg, but NO MORE unless, as Bizi says, you take copper too.

Wondering - does your multivitamin have any minerals in it as well? if so, which? and especially, does it have any Zinc in it? if so you need to consider that amount with any other supplements. does it include copper?

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please be careful. if you want, you can type in what your various supplements have here. just be sure to copy the units correctly. then we can help do the math.



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Hi,

I have not taken the multi vit in a long time. The daily recommendation is to take three pills from the bottle. About once a month I take 1 pill (one third of the dose.)
I will get back and type exactly what is on the bottle.

I take the zinc about two times a week.

I am aware of the copper issue. I am also aware that we have some data that too much copper can correlate with bipolar.

M

I take about 60mg of optizinc, which has the copper in it at the right ratio.
Just worried about you.
(((((HUGS)))))
bizi