Eye Twitch?

[Purdue]

For the last few days I've had a weird eye twitch. My bottom eyelid starts... twitching... really fast. I can't control it... and you can see the muscle clenching (the soft area below your eye...) when it's doing it.

People have been noticing. and asking me what's wrong.

I've never seen anyhing like it, but I don't want to go to the doc with an "Eye Problem!" right in the middle of primary. Kinda seems like bad news to call attention to myself.

Has anyone else experienced this? I've been hydrating well, and the only thing that's been different was a few days ago I did my first double-turn in the jet, and OBOGS was on MAX (as opposed to our NORMAL setting) due to an airsickness battle. I know my ears were messed up that night/the next morning. Could this still be residual of that high oxygen concentration from 2 days ago? OR should I go ask the flight doc? It kinda has me worried and is EXTREMELY annoying and distracting.

 

[Brett327]

For the last few days I've had a weird eye twitch. My bottom eyelid starts... twitching... really fast. I can't control it... and you can see the muscle clenching (the soft area below your eye...) when it's doing it.

People have been noticing. and asking me what's wrong.

I've never seen anyhing like it, but I don't want to go to the doc with an "Eye Problem!" right in the middle of primary. Kinda seems like bad news to call attention to myself.

Has anyone else experienced this? I've been hydrating well, and the only thing that's been different was a few days ago I did my first double-turn in the jet, and OBOGS was on MAX (as opposed to our NORMAL setting) due to an airsickness battle. I know my ears were messed up that night/the next morning. Could this still be residual of that high oxygen concentration from 2 days ago? OR should I go ask the flight doc? It kinda has me worried and is EXTREMELY annoying and distracting.

Could be the first signs of early onset Parkinson's.

Seriously though, relax. It's one of those things that happens to everyone but you just don't know until it's brought up. I'll get twitches in funny places every once in a while, even the exact location you've described. It will resolve itself in a few days and you can get back to panicking about normal flight school stuff.

Brett

 

[Purdue]

Thanks Brett. I'll go get that Parkinson's treated right away.

seriously, thanks for the quick response, atleast I know it's kinda "normal".

 

[Intruder Driver]

lesson One For Sna's: Do Not Go To A Flight Surgeon. They Can Only Keep The Staus Quo Or Ground You!!

 

[MasterBates]

Purdue,

Probably just nerves. I reccomend Maker's Mark.

DISCLAIMER: I am not a doctor, but I aviod them like it' my job.

 

[Intruder Driver]

1. Things I learned at the Naval Academy: Collaborate and graduate
2. Things I learned as a Tailhooker: Self-medicate and graduate
3. Things I learned as a senior Naval Aviator: keep the flight surgeon on the flight schedule

 

[TheBubba]

1. Things I learned at the Naval Academy: Collaborate and graduate
2. Things I learned as a Tailhooker: Self-medicate and graduate
3. Things I learned as a senior Naval Aviator: keep the flight surgeon on the flight schedule

4: Things I learned at USNA that apply to flight school: Tell the doc just enough to fix the absolute minimum necessary to be healthy enough to graduate and wing.

 

[Intruder Driver]

Amen

 

[snake020]

For the last few days I've had a weird eye twitch. My bottom eyelid starts... twitching... really fast. I can't control it... and you can see the muscle clenching (the soft area below your eye...) when it's doing it.

People have been noticing. and asking me what's wrong.

I've never seen anyhing like it, but I don't want to go to the doc with an "Eye Problem!" right in the middle of primary. Kinda seems like bad news to call attention to myself.

Has anyone else experienced this? I've been hydrating well, and the only thing that's been different was a few days ago I did my first double-turn in the jet, and OBOGS was on MAX (as opposed to our NORMAL setting) due to an airsickness battle. I know my ears were messed up that night/the next morning. Could this still be residual of that high oxygen concentration from 2 days ago? OR should I go ask the flight doc? It kinda has me worried and is EXTREMELY annoying and distracting.

I had the same thing back in Aug. Would like to have blamed it on the eye exams I was doing for my flight physical, but it actually started before a couple days before they dialated my eyes. Lasted a little over a month, then went away and hasn't been back since. Guess it was nerves.

My unprofessional and not-medical opinion is to wait it out and relax.

 

[insanebikerboy]

Think about what you've been doing and see if you've been straining your eyes excessively, and by that I mean, are you in the sims right now, or have you been doing some serious studying, or anything where you have to keep intense visual focus?

I ask because the same thing would occasionally happen to me when I was shooting competitively. Sometimes after practicing for a few hours my lower eyelid on my shooting eye would twitch a bit. When that happened I knew it was time to knock it off.

Just try and relax and it should go away.

 

[thull]

my eye does that during periods of high stress in my life. once I relax for a few days, it invariably goes away.

 

[AppleCello]

happens with stress, lack of sleep, etc. webmd is your friend.

 

[JTS11]

I would only worry about it if you notice your palms starting to sprout hair follicles.

If that happens, a little behavioral modification on your part should do the trick.

 

[Brett327]

I would only worry about it if you notice your palms starting to sprout hair follicles.

If that happens, a little behavioral modification on your part should do the trick.

Reference my post RE chaffing.

Brett

 

[feddoc]

1. Things I learned at the Naval Academy: Collaborate and graduate
2. Things I learned as a Tailhooker: Self-medicate and graduate
3. Things I learned as a senior Naval Aviator: keep the flight surgeon on the flight schedule

Ah. Thanks.