eye twitching

Last year my eye started having this weird twitch. It's not an eyelid twitch, it's more of an eyeball twitch, with slight visual distortion. It usually happens when I'm staring, whether it's an intent stare or a blank stare. It's just my right eye. It is entirely involuntary, I don't know when it's going to happen, and I can't stop it when it happens. It doesn't hurt, but I don't know if the feeling I associate with it is real or psychosomatic. There is no loss of vision, just a little distortion like I'm trying to cross my eyes but not extreme.

I've done lots of Google searches and I can't find anything that describes what's happening, much less what might be causing it. I've looked up potential causes including cancer and it doesn't match up.

It started after I started college and all but abandoned paleo eating after a fairly steady 2 years of eating paleo. It did not happen before I started eating paleo.

Does anybody else have any idea what I'm talking about? What it is? What might be causing it? Should I be worried?

Not sure, but an appointment with a neurologist to have a VEP, Visual Evoked Potential , could help diagnose. At least start with an ophthalmologist.

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Why have you not just asked your doctor?

Because I haven't been to the doctor in over a year, and I hate going unless I know I have a problem they can help me with, and they are expensive. XD
Also, my mother (the holder of the credit card and insurance paperwork) has a habit of making planets out of marbles when it comes to me and that really bothers me because I'm very not-that.

I just remembered that the first time I experienced this, I had just had my first dose of caffeine in the form of a caramel macchiato with whipped cream. It was a Wednesday and I was short on sleep and had a full day ahead. The second time I had caffeine (a week later) it didn't happen the same way so I don't know if it's related to the caffeine or what.

I get a twitch after or during reading books or online, don't know what it is either, but i did get new glasses and think i need my prescription may need to be changed as that may be causing the twitching problem too.

But it's not an eyelid twitch and that's what everyone usually means when they say eye twitch. It's my eye itself. Like, I can be staring at something, and then I look at something else, and for a split second I see two of them and then the one associated with my right eye meanders back to focus with my left eye. It happens too when my left eye is covered. So I guess it tends to happen more when I look from thing to thing but also when I'm staring. It's disorienting, but not enough to be more than somewhat distracting.

I can't find anything similar on medical logs and the like. Maybe I'm searching for the wrong thing. "Double vision" does describe it but not well in my opinion because it's not consistent. But I guess I should try.

Hi, I've read two other people here who had that same problem. One of them is TheSkeezyks. But they both also had a problem with their eyeball jumping out of focus. Good luck.

Do you take any stimulants such as Adderall? My doc told me it could be a side effect of that

No drugs at all, actually, except occasionally Midol and an iron supplement.

I hit some promising results when I searched "double vision". Most of them are caused by things like aneurysm, stroke, hemorrhages, diabetes, tumors, etc. >>' I think I'd be having more symptoms if any of those were the cause.

But a few seem to describe something close to what's going on with me.

I don't know what could be the cause. It was happening to me earlier today, which is why I was posting about it (doing it while I remembered because I usually forget once the episode is over). But it has stopped. I have not done anything in between that I believe would influence it. No caffeine today, no more sleep deprived now than I was a few hours ago when it was happening. The only difference really is that I'm not staring at something some hundred yards away from me, and I don't think that's significant since it's happened at close (i.e. staring at a cell phone) and long range (staring at some distant item) and in between.

(Half the reason for the post/thread is to collect my thoughts. I will use this information for a more comprehensive, detailed report later for if/when I discuss this with my doctor.)

You need to get this checked out, it could be anything from just being tired to being a brain tumour! Please see your doctor or optician.

I have been trying to figure out what a weird vision thing is too. This seems to be the hardest thing to google.

I don't have your specific thing, but when I have had eyebrow twitches in the past, it often seems related to lack of sleep combined with stress. Have you looked at ocular migraines to see if those symptoms match yours at all?

Exactly one year later and I have to BAMTHREDREZ this XD

There used to be a character on a multiplayer text-based roleplay game I play who was described as having a nystagmus. I find it hilarious that I couldn't remember the term at all before even though that character was around long before I started having the twitch. Nystagmus describes what I've been experiencing - the intermittent eye twitching, I mean.

So of course I had to go look up and read all about the pathophysiology on medscape.

Possible causes: MS (lesions to some parts around the motor control center for focusing the eyes), stroke, head trauma, inner ear problems, a bunch of other terrible awfuls

I was having it almost severely (compared to "normal") last week but it mostly cleared up last Friday.

I should probably go see a doctor. I need new contact lenses anyway, but since it is mostly gone now I do not know that there is anything they can do about it. It is like how in the past I have gone to the doctor because I woke up the night before in a feverish sweat and feeling like stuff was dripping down my trachea and into my lungs and barely being able to breathe even after sitting up, and then I get to the doctor and my airways are as clear as the glass in those Windex commercials.