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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AnxietyKillinMe charchar84
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Yea google sucks lol. I can't even begin to explain the things I've diagnosed myself with the worst being currently fearing als. That fear got put mostly to rest when I saw neuro and my clinical exam was normal because I know in als I would have clinical weakness or hyper reflexes and stuff like that. I have an emg coming up in a couple weeks which will be the end all be all to that. It is very very hard to differentiate real from anxiety and of course our brains tell us it can't be anxiety it's probably an illness that's just making us feel the way we do which is why we're anxious and not the other way around. At this point I've read up on anxiety and DP/DR and dizziness might not actually be dizziness it might just be DP/DR making us feel spaced out which is directly related to anxiety. There's so many facets to it and it's amazing what our bodies can make us feel. Plus if you get anxious your diet might suffer and if your diet suffers you might actually be deficient in vitamins that cause some of your symptoms. I've found vitamin b12 has helped with my memory specifically and the random tingling and magnesium has helped with muscle aches and twitches. Sometimes our blood levels of different things might be considered "normal" but that doesn't reflect what our cells are actually getting of it. The moment we realize we aren't dying (which is hard because I too feel like I'm going to die every day) and that it's just anxiety is the very moment we can begin to move on with our lives and truly get better. One day at a time.