twitching eyelid

I started wearing one contact about 3 months ago, and that eye has been twitching off and on since I started with the contact.  I'm using 30 day night/day contacts, but have taken it out for days at a time thinking the twitching is related to that.  Sometimes it helps, but then the twitching starts again.  Since it's only in the eye with the contact, I guess I can put 2+2 together and get 4, but is this normal when you've never worn contacts before?  People tell me that it's just a matter of getting used to it.  I work on computers probably 10 hours a day, and i have had sporadic twitching of eyelids in the past but never for this long.

[AnnaE]

Hi. I am a community leader here. I am not a doctor.

Dr Hagan has said that the usual cause of twitching is Myokympia. You can google that  for more information. Also, He suggest that you see you Eye MD, ophthalmologist, for care. Take the contact/contacts with you. Dr Hagan wrote to another poster with the same complaint:

"In almost all cases the twitching is 'myokympia' or an irritable orbicularis oculi (the doughnut shaped muscle that closes the eye).  It's common as dirt in the practice of ophthalmology. Sometimes lasts for days, weeks, months but eventually goes away."

Dr. Hagan will review this post.

I hope your eye quits twitching soon.

[John C Hagan III, MD, FACS, FAAO]

Contacts and aggravate or cause myokymia.  See an ophthalmologst.

JCH II MD