fname (California) on 01/07/2025
Jamie (Indianapolis ) on 03/28/2023
vidal sasoon (singapore) on 01/04/2023
Then I saw the tonic water cure. So I bought a few cans of Schweppes tonic water. After drinking it, I could feel the twitching easing up a bit, but it was still twitching even on my fourth day of gulping down at least 3 cans of tonic water per day. Was really envious of those who got cured by this quickly.
Then I decided to switch brands, and I bought this more expensive tonic water with quinine sourced from south america. At that point in time, I remembered how I always cure my nerve pain (I get them every now and then after my shingles episode) - ie LYSINE. And I felt this eye twitching is probably due to some nerve abnormaly. Hence, I started taking like 2 lysine tablets every 6 hrs or so. At the same time, I started drinking the more expensive tonic water. Within a few hours of starting this regimen, I could finally feel it improving substantially. By the next day, it was like 95% gone. Also, pls avoid coffee. Coffee triggers my nerve pain, and makes my twitching worse.
In short, try taking Lysine and drinking tonic water with south american quinine. Hope this helps others plagued by this distressing ailment.
Mesolo (Chicago, IL) on 12/18/2022
Junebug (East Earl, PA) on 05/30/2022
Alex (Latin America) on 12/26/2021
I tried both tonic and coconut water with no success.
Eventually I decided to move my eyes to different directions whenever the twitching appeared. During one or two minutes, I would look up, down, to the sides, etc.
The problem disappeared within days.
Tab (Australia) on 11/09/2021
Xanadu (Memphis, Tn) on 09/23/2020
That made me think I needed to exhaust the eye muscles but unwilling to put electrodes and shock in the area of my eye I just practiced blinking the eyelid as rapidly as possible for 30-45 seconds and found that stops it for a few hours so I am not constantly bothered by the twitching.
Hope this helps someone else. I still hope to find something that works totally.
Chloe (Ny) on 07/06/2020
I tried many of the remedies found here on EC: acupressure, magnesium, mag oil, bananas, and even electrolytes. The electrolytes helped slightly but then the twitch came back a couple of hours later. This weekend, after my eye was getting progressively more swollen from twitching, I decided to go and buy potassium supplements instead of just eating bananas. I ended up with potassium caplets instead of capsules as the big box store that was open didn't have capsules. (I don't think caplets are absorbed as well and will buy capsules in the future). I took one pill and my eye twitch stopped an hour later after 10 relentless days!!!
The twitch came back about 12 hours later, though less intensely than before, so I promptly took another potassium. I have repeated the dosage for two days now and the twitch is completely gone.
Another side effect from the alkalizing tonic that I didn't mention in my last post because it started a couple days after that, was that I also got nerve sensitivity to cold in my gum line. Very uncomfortable to drink. Guess what, the potassium cured that too!!!
Folks, do watch out when you do these alkalizing and detoxing remedies. They can pull vital nutrients from your body, leaving you with side effects that may take you down the rabbit hole trying to figure out!!!
Suzie (Ohio) on 05/31/2018
Peppermint (Imperial, Ca) on 04/01/2018
Veronica (California) on 03/15/2018
Coconut water is a great source of potassium and it contains less carbs than a banana.
Moroco (Denver, Co) on 11/28/2017
Jennifer (Lagrange, Ga) on 11/06/2017
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