Can eye strain cause temple pain?

So for about a week I have been feeling a very sudden very sharp pain in my right temple, very close to the eye but not in the eye itself. It lasts about a second.

I believe it may be due to eye strain because every time I feel it I'm either looking at a computer screen or my phone.

I recovered from Covid this week, and although my last blood tests done about 10 days ago were acceptable and improving, I'm afraid this might have something to do with it, such as inflammation of the temporal artery, mainly because I have never felt this pain with eye strain before, and because it may be a side effect of the immune system response.

My right eye's upper eyelid has been twitching randomly too, and sometimes I feel the twitching all the way to the temples although I haven't been able to actually see this.

Does this sound like it could be regular eye strain?

I'm particularly scared because of the implications, since arteritis can lead to blindness. So far I haven't noticed any visual problems, I do see a little worse with my right eye but I always have, and with glasses everything is fine.

I have also noticed that if I put pressure on that part of the head it can sometimes hurt little a moment after I stopped applying pressure.

I'm also male an in my early thirties, no health issues besides the recent Covid infection.

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