Two days ago, one of my neighbors asked me, in the past two months, his right eye is always jumping constantly, someone said: “the left eye jumping wealth, right eye jumping disaster”, “eyelid jumping” and “disaster” have a relationship Does it have anything to do with “luck”? I told him that many people have this idea after “eyelid jumping”! This is actually a misunderstanding. The “eyelid jumping” that we usually complain about is usually short-term and intermittent, mostly due to fatigue or eating irritating foods or medications. The facial and eyelid muscle movement is innervated by the facial nerve, when the facial nerve is stimulated, that will cause its innervated muscle twitching, such as only affect the branches of the innervated eyelid, then only the eyelid jumping, so the eyelid jumping is not a harbinger of trouble will come, but the facial nerve abnormal activity caused. Generally, this condition does not require medical treatment, but only requires a gentle massage with the hand at the throbbing point, and will disappear automatically with a little rest. This “eyelid jumping”, does not affect the health, more and more “woe” has nothing to do. However, there are some “eyelid jumping” lasting for a long time, the amplitude is large, it may be pathological, medically known as “facial muscle spasm”. This is mostly due to continuous stimulation of the facial nerve due to compression of the brainstem segment of the facial nerve by surrounding blood vessels or long-term chronic inflammation. The majority of these disorders develop after middle age, and are more common in women. Initially, the twitches are mostly paroxysmal involuntary twitches of one eyelid, which gradually and slowly extend to other facial muscles on one side of the face, with the initial twitches being light and lasting only a few seconds, and then gradually lengthening, while the interval is gradually shortened and the twitches gradually increase in frequency. In a few patients, the twitching is accompanied by mild facial pain, and in some cases, it may be accompanied by ipsilateral headache and tinnitus. A few patients may have mild paralysis of the affected facial muscles in the late stage of the disease. Therefore, facial spasm is a cranial neuropathy, it is indeed a “disaster” not a “blessing”, and to avoid the disaster must be medication, injection or surgery to completely eradicate the cause of the disease. Microvascular decompression is a method in which a small skin incision and a small bone window are made in the hairline behind the patient’s ear, and the area where the nerve is compressed by the blood vessel is exposed under a microscope and a small spacer is placed between the two. This treatment method is currently recognized internationally as the preferred method for treating facial spasm and is the only method that can cure the disease radically, with a cure rate of over 95%. Therefore, doctors suggest that if you have symptoms of “eyelid jumping” for a long period of time, please seek medical attention as soon as possible. If you have recurrence after microvascular decompression, reoperation is still effective.