Why Eyelid Twitches: Why Does My Eyelid Twitch After I Sneeze?---Eyelid from twitching and why does it twitch: Achoo! And here comes the eyelid twitch, right after the sneeze. Does this happen to you? Sometimes the eyelid twitch persists for a minute or so afterward. And other times, maybe there is only one twitch of the eyelid after a good sneeze.
An anecdotal answer to why this involuntary action can set off an eyelid twitch is that the act of sneezing is quite forceful on the body, jarring and jangling things up, and the tiny, minute muscles of the eyelid get caught up in the act.
However, I posed this question to Dr. Ravish Patwardhan, MD, a nationally-renowned neurosurgeon and founder of Comprehensive Neurosurgery Network LLC.
Dr. Patwardhan explains, "One mechanism is that sneezing involves so many muscles in a coordinated movement, that ancillary muscles may be incorporated by the body to 'stabilize' itself. Similar to grimacing when lifting heavy weights, this may also be a compensatory mechanism. The twitch that follows may be related to this mechanism, or recovering from this mechanism."
No matter how strange the twitching (also known as fasciculation) may feel, one should not necessarily get alarmed over this. This does not necessarily signal that you might have a neurological problem. Millions of eyelids twitch day in and day out, all across the nation, many preceded by a good sneeze.
In fact, it's not uncommon for a sneeze to result in a fasciculation elsewhere in the body, such as in the abdomen or trunk. This can happen. A sneeze can be quite potent, getting what seems like the whole body involved. This sudden physical action can literally shake someone halfway out of a chair, or cause a person to lose control of a car if it occurs while they are driving.
And we all know how loud sneezes can be, even though I'm convinced that the loudness of a sneeze is directly proportional to how many people are within earshot of the guilty person!
Yes, nobody sneezes as loud as a jackhammer when they are the only ones in a room. I'm convinced that loud sneezing is an attention-getting tactic. But anyways, back to the eyelid twitching phenomenon.
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An anecdotal answer to why this involuntary action can set off an eyelid twitch is that the act of sneezing is quite forceful on the body, jarring and jangling things up, and the tiny, minute muscles of the eyelid get caught up in the act.
However, I posed this question to Dr. Ravish Patwardhan, MD, a nationally-renowned neurosurgeon and founder of Comprehensive Neurosurgery Network LLC.
Dr. Patwardhan explains, "One mechanism is that sneezing involves so many muscles in a coordinated movement, that ancillary muscles may be incorporated by the body to 'stabilize' itself. Similar to grimacing when lifting heavy weights, this may also be a compensatory mechanism. The twitch that follows may be related to this mechanism, or recovering from this mechanism."
No matter how strange the twitching (also known as fasciculation) may feel, one should not necessarily get alarmed over this. This does not necessarily signal that you might have a neurological problem. Millions of eyelids twitch day in and day out, all across the nation, many preceded by a good sneeze.
In fact, it's not uncommon for a sneeze to result in a fasciculation elsewhere in the body, such as in the abdomen or trunk. This can happen. A sneeze can be quite potent, getting what seems like the whole body involved. This sudden physical action can literally shake someone halfway out of a chair, or cause a person to lose control of a car if it occurs while they are driving.
And we all know how loud sneezes can be, even though I'm convinced that the loudness of a sneeze is directly proportional to how many people are within earshot of the guilty person!
Yes, nobody sneezes as loud as a jackhammer when they are the only ones in a room. I'm convinced that loud sneezing is an attention-getting tactic. But anyways, back to the eyelid twitching phenomenon.
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