Does Your Eyelid Ever Randomly Twitch? Learn Why Muscles Vellicate!

Factors like stress or lack of sleep can lead to an imbalance in the signal transmission or reception between your brain and nerve endings, causing your limbs and even your back and chest to vellicate. Vellication can even occur from external stimuli such as a slight tickle. That random twitch may be bothersome but typically nothing to worry about and can be easily reduced by just eating better, stretching or exercising daily, and drinking plenty of water, helping those neuro connections to strengthen.

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[jessicadriscoll]

Ugh yes my eye vellicates whenever I am under a lot of stress. It's frustrating, but eventually goes away. My legs will sometimes twitch in my sleep and wake me, but it's nothing compared to how much dogs commonly vellicate in their sleep. Mine twitches so terribly from her eyes all the way to paws. Do you by any chance know why dogs twitch so much more in comparison to humans?

[Yoayo-vsoo]

bro my shoulder is twitching is because exercise till failure