Body aches and pains, has anyone had this cosistatnly on and off?
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I have suffered from anxiety on and off all year. It was extremely bad at one point, I had spaciness, body aches, panic attacks. Palpitations, pins and needles, constant burping, feeling like I couldn't breathe properly, ringing in ears, body spasms, body vibrations. I felt awful, like I wasn't myself. Going to the shopping centres would make me feel nauseous. I feel like I've had every symptom under the sun.
I started a new job as a massage therapist. I was really happy. My anxiety seemed to slowly get better, however the last 2 months I've been getting on and off wrist and ankle pain, it's like a deep ache or pain. My ankles and wrists especially click a lot at first the clicking came with no pain at all. I found that I also get a lot of tension here and there in my neck and throat. But the constant ankle and wrist aches is what bothers me most. I feel it mostly at rest when in not doing anything, occasionally at work when I massage.
The problem I have is I'm really unsure if I have an actual problem possibly from my job or it's just once again my anxiety giving me yet another symptom to worry about. I saw the doctor recently about this and he referred me for bloods including rheumatoid arthritis. My vitamin d has come back as a bit low, and I'm taking vitamin d supplements. I have a follow up with the dr to discuss this. I know some symptoms can be body aches.
However I just wanted to know if anyone has had these symptoms with anxiety, specific body parts, and muscles/joints causing aches and pains or clicking. Like I said I notice it more at rest and that's when it hurts most, I don't feel it when I'm active.
Would love to hear from others, if you have experienced this?
Thanks so much.
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jamie32633 charchar84
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I started getting really bad anxiety during pregnancy and it got a lot worse after my c section. It was REALLY REALLY REALLY bad when I was recovering. My boyfriend would constantly ( like literally every five minutes) get me a frozen washcloth from the freezer to put on my head because I was so panicky and lightheaded. I would constantly get these waves of rushes throughout my entire body and it would jolt me forward and make me think I was going to pass out. I got tingly arms and legs all of the time, little poke feelings in my arms like someone was touching me with a toothpick. I threw up a few times. I was freaking out that I had MS. I had a headache for like a week and thought it was preeclampsia or a brain tumor. I was afraid to walk around the house or get too far away from the couch because I thought I would faint.
That was almost 6 months ago. I still have anxiety pretty bad, because I'm constantly thinking something bad is going to happen to me. I have to drive in the right lane on the freeway so I can easily get off at an exit. If I know there's a stretch coming up with no exit or shoulder for a few miles, I start to get tingly and antsy and have to put the air on full blast and sing to myself to try and stop myself from having a full blown panic attack.
I had a physical on October 5th. All my blood work was okay and the doctor said I was fine but I still think she missed something. I have achy legs and arms sometimes. I feel like I'm short of breath but I'm not. I just get this weird sensation in my stomach and chest like I'm not getting enough air, but when I stop and try to breathe, im completely fine and totally capable of taking full breaths. I get a dizzy feeling sometimes. Not spinny dizzy, just a kind of weird feeling. It comes and goes. My forehead feels tight sometimes, and my eyes feel weird if I open them super wide. Sounds weird right? Lol. Who knows what that is. Of course I immediately assumed I had a tumor in my sinus cavity. I get random head pains all over the place. My stomach always hurts. Sometimes it's a throw up kind of feeling, and sometimes it's actually a dull type pain. Which is OBVIOUSLY pancreatic cancer. Or stomach cancer. Or liver cancer. I'm a mess. It's so sad that I'm actually getting better than I was in July. But every ache and pain sends a rush through me and I have to sit in front of a fan in bed.
I bent down today and picked my daughter up out of her rock and play and got a huge pain on my chest bone and middle back. Like a muscle strain. I almost had a panic attack right there, I thought I was having a pulmonary embolism or a heart attack. Thank God my friend was over. It made me feel a little better that my daughter would be okay if I just dropped and passed out. I've been in a panic since this happened. Like why can't I just accept that I pulled a muscle? I'm convinced it's lung cancer. It's terrifying!!!! I've had the tingles all day, and I've been googling (I know, I know!) and my entire body just feels so weird now. Anxiety is crippling!! I'm currently laying in bed with a bag of frozen peas under my back.
If anyone can reassure me I do not have cancer, that would be great.
Don't worry. You're not alone. I constantly think I'm dying.
charchar84 jamie32633
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You are not dying, you are not dying. I had to tell myself that at my worse I tell you. It got to a point where I thought I haven't died yet & nothing really really bad has happened so it can't be that bad and more the fear of if. Took a long while for me to think like that though.
Your symptoms are so similar to what I have experienced, the feeling like I couldn't get enough air through my nose, I saw and specialist and I do have allergies but it was my anxiety causing this feeling not the allergies. I to had a habit of getting in the car & needing the aircon on full blast just to help me breathe or made me feel like I could breathe. All it did though was make me take more air than I needed and give me more symptoms. But it was like a habit I had to do it to stay calm. I even carried a cross with me everywhere at one point as I really did think I was going to die.
Yep MS been there done that, I get muscle twitches and I had tingling, body aches and a twitchy toe and thumb at one point. I tell you the day my thumb twitched I had not long read on google about MS. I swear I almost went in to shock when it twitched, major fear was implanted in my soul, I wasn't the same after that & had to go see a specialist as I felt awful and was worried about ms. He told me you do not have MS before even examining me, he said your symptoms are not that of a
Client with ms. It's anxiety and hyperventilation which is basically breathing in to much and not enough exhaling. But then I became so aware of my breathing that I no longer knew how to breathe normally, it was horrible. I think my job make me more aware of my breathing as the breathing wasn't an issue for me it had stopped and then bamn today I get a sudden lightheadedness and nausea. Everything goes still, it's like a spaciness and I feel the need to check my pulse to make sure it's stil beating. I had to stop the car. Take some breaths and calm myself down. I really hope my breathing issue isn't going to start up again now that I'm back at work. Fingers crossed it was just a one off due to stress and unknowing of the body Aches and pains & being back to work. As I have been Doing so much better. Anxiety is horrible, 2016 was the hardest year of my life because of it. I wasn't sure if I would ever be me again. Thankfully I am with some anxiety lows here and there.
jamie32633 charchar84
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I constantly check my pulse! Sometimes it's so fast and sometimes it's normal. If I feel like I'm going to pass out, I have to check my pulse to prove to myself that I won't.
I associate everything with cancer or something fatal. I've learned to accept the tingles as anxiety because I've noticed if I lie down and breathe through my nose and relax, they go away. My arms and legs feel weak sometimes too, but it's definitely perceived weakness and not clinical. I have all my strength.
I just want to feel normal and not be constantly thinking I'm going to die!!
charchar84 jamie32633
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Yes, thankfully I don't get the sudden panic or lightheadedness like before where I feel like that. Today was the first in a long while, I think after a while you just think oh there goes my fluttery heart, or there goes my twitchy toe, or there goes another ache and pain. You get so used to it.
Yes it's always worse case scenarios with anxiety. One good thing, we can't die from anxiety even though we feel like we are. Try to remind yourself of that, that's what I did. It won't kill me I use to say, it will be Okay and it will eventually.
jamie32633 charchar84
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It's just hard to differentiate what's anxiety and what isn't. I freak out. I had a muscle twitch on my thumb for like a week, and just like you, I LOST IT. Scared the ever livin out of me. Its gone now, but I definitely googled Parkinson's lmao
charchar84 jamie32633
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Yes it's crazy when you think about it, my legs and hands are tingling, aching and feel cold right now. I'm pretty sure it's come on just from talking about the symptoms. Madness.
jamie32633 charchar84
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It really is. I've been panicking all day because my back hurts. I have my mind convinced its lung cancer. My body has felt weird since it happened.
charchar84 jamie32633
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Oh dear, it's terrible the things that convince us of certain things. I've sat here googling my symptoms yet again. I'm so guilty of this. I'm blaming my doctors for making me wait 14 days because they have no appointments. This or probably got me anxious. They said no need to worry dr just wants to see you for routine appointment about your vitamin d profile. Yeh like it's really easy not to worry.
jamie32633 charchar84
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Yep!! So scary
the physical symptoms are CRAZY.
charchar84 jamie32633
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Yep, to be honest I'm really hoping it is just anxiety and not to do with my vitamin d profile. I just want the appointment so my mind can be put at ease.
jamie32633 charchar84
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I'm sure it is! They wouldn't lie
charchar84 jamie32633
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sally81965 charchar84
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charchar84 sally81965
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sally81965 charchar84
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charchar84 sally81965
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Yes he tested me last week, and the receptionist told me its nothing to worry about but I need a routine appointment to discuss my vitamin D profile. As that's what came back from my bloods, she couldn't tell me the exact issue as she's not the Dr but I am assuming it's low hence the Dr wants to discuss it with me. Part of me hopes this is the reason for my aches and pains but I also hope it will get better once I know & taking vitamin D supplements.
sally81965 charchar84
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charchar84 sally81965
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Yes true, fingers crossed that's all it is & can be fixed. Your right they do, I find they shy away from quite a bit sometimes. when my anxiety kicked off, I felt worse because I would go to one dr he would say it's asthma, give me a pump go to another you definitely don't have asthma, go to another it's vertigo take these strong drugs, which gave me a bad side effect, go to another dr...you 100 % don't have vertigo. It's part the reason I took to googling my symptoms in the first place, as so many Drs contradicted each other. Your left not knowing what is going on.