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"Sometimes, I&amp;#x27;ll be concentrating super-hard when I&amp;#x27;m on deadline--or, OK, fine, really not concentrating super-hard--when I realize something&amp;#x27;s off. A little muscle somewhere next to my nose will start twitching--uncontrollably, randomly, and definitely not cutely like Tabitha from &amp;quot;Bewitched.&amp;quot; That&amp;#x27;s because a muscle twitch--the fancy word for it is &amp;quot;fasciculation&amp;quot;--has decided to strike. It&amp;#x27;s one of those extremely small, extremely irritating things--like when there&amp;#x27;s a mosquito in your room while you&amp;#x27;re trying to fall asleep, or a teeny canker sore that you can&amp;#x27;t stop poking at with your tongue. At this point, I&amp;#x27;m always left wondering two things: 1) how can I get rid of it, and 2) why do muscle twitches even happen? While muscle twitches can be among the symptoms of specific conditions, such as Lou Gehrig&amp;#x27;s disease and neuromyotonia, they&amp;#x27;re usually fleeting and harmless. In a lot of cases, they&amp;#x27;re due to lack of magnesium in your diet (another good reason to eat bananas and almonds!) or because of stress (you may have been tensing up muscles that you had no idea you were tensing up). Right, so how do we get rid of the twitches? Relaxing your muscles can help (sleepy yoga poses are good for loosening up tense muscles), as can gently rubbing the jumpy area. Do ever you get random muscle twitches? How do you make them go away--or avoid them in the first place? More health rants: * Unexplained Bruising * I Can&amp;#x27;t Go Running Because I Broke My Baby Toe! * Why Do I Always Get Sick on Fridays! (Do You?) Photo: Thinkstock"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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