Eyelid twitching typically lasts for a couple of months, resolving as the affected nerve cell either reconnects or ceases to function.

“Most of the time it's actually just a bad nerve ending; you know uh maybe that one nerve cell you know your eyelid is fed by you know hundreds maybe it's thousands of nerve cells that are doing the muscles they're doing the feeling obviously it's the ones controlling the muscles that can lead to a twitch if one of those nerve cells kind of just starts you know maybe that one nerve cell is dying just you know whatever the aging process uh you know it happens in young people too though so you got one bad fiber that's just deciding to kind of ring off the hook that's that's that telephone is just ringing off the hook and it's just activating the muscle so you're just twitching that muscle”