Health anxiety please help

hi. I don't know if this will help you but I have been struggling with very similar things. I've had stress and anxiety my whole life but for some reason I seem to be at an absolute low with strange symptoms similar to yours. plus other ones. it started a few months ago after a relationship that was extremely stressful ended. I started getting buzzing vibrations in one leg. so that put me into extreme health anxiety which I've always had. it then spread to the other leg sometimes in an arm or a finger. every time I think I'm getting used to it in one area it'll pop up somewhere else or feel a little different. when I lay down sometimes it feels like my body is shaking on the inside which is different from the buzzing feeling. lately I've been getting weird like hot pokes in various parts of my body that last just for a couple seconds then go away. it's hard to think it's anxiety because when I'm sitting watching TV and thinking I'm calm it will go crazy sometimes. it's making me feel like I'm in living hell. I too thought Ms ALS Parkinson's brain tumor you name it. I work in the medical field with a bunch of nurses one of them worked in neurology for years the other one has MS and the other one is a nurse practitioner. all three of them said anxiety. I go to them constantly with new symptoms and they just tell me it's a variation of the same thing. your anxiety has caused your nerves to just be overfiring and it takes a long time for it to calm down. this has been going on for 4 months now. and they still say the same thing. I went to the doctor for my yearly I told her my symptoms and she said it's anxiety but did full blood work on me and everything came back fine. I have nurses telling me it's anxiety I have my blood work telling me I'm healthy but I still think there's something wrong with me. as I'm sitting here my legs are trembling vibrating buzzing I just had one of those hot cold pokes in my face. I'm now trying CBD oil hoping that will help calm my nervous system down. just started a few days ago. and I am on anti-anxiety meds but I think they're more for depression than anything because they're not doing a damn thing for the anxiety of mine LOL that's all I do is think about it constantly I feel like I'm in fight or flight mode all the time. hope this helps you feel that you're not alone

Hi Sophie,

I can relate to your health anxiety as i went through it and still do but not nearly as bad

a had a scare one time and even though i got the all the all clear i was still anxious and wasn't convinced.

2 things that helped me massively are stop looking on google because you see or read things and immediately gets you scared

the other thing is to stop trying to self diagnose yourself especially if you look up symptoms etc.

also that's what anxiety is, it makes you feel like this and it convinces you and you believe it. As for Calming yourself down last year before christmas i had an episode where i was depressed, anxious i reached out to the samaritans and my doctor. long story short i was so scared i didnt know what to do, try it but it works for me

so that same night i went upstairs to my bed, put a lamp on not the main light, got comfortable with my duvet and just laid while looking on my phone, weirdly it calmed me down and i was in a bad way so you should give it a go. if you dont have a phone, try something else like read your favourite paper or whatever.

are you on any anti-depressants at all, maybe talking to your doctor which i'd recommend as they help to take the edge off.

Anyway hope all goes well for you bye for now

Hi Sophie, i totally know where you are coming from, i suffer these symptoms all the time, nausea, dizziness, shaking, terrible feelings of dread, i ache, am so tired all the time, i feel sick, don't want to eat, dont want to go out, im scared, and i to am at my wits end, but we are both still here asking for help, if like me you have had every test under the sun that come back negative, we can and have to except that this is anxiety, and us and only us will deal with it, these feelings like nothing we have felt before are alarming and consuming of our time, its easy for friends and family to say you will be ok, but they don't really understand, they try but unless they have been through it, they don't quite know what we are going through, i always try to help my anxiety by thinking of the day before, how i got through it how i managed and im here thinking how well i coped, try as i do not to think to far ahead, find something to occupy you if only for a few moments just to break the cycle, with practice i find this helps, i keep an elastic band on my arm and give it a dam good twang when i feel those feelings coming on, even a packet of frozen peas sounds daft i know but put on the back of your neck breaks that cycle, along with 7 deep breaths in and eleven out does the trick, believe me you are not alone, hold on and you will turn the corner, are you on any medications, ive found this also helps, im always here if you want to chat, just remember you are not alone and if i can help you i will and maybe we can over come this together, love and hugs be strong you will be ok. xx

hi. I've been suffering with the same thing. started in my leg then it went to the other leg now it's both legs sometimes my arm. last year it was severe twitching. my doctor says its anxiety. it's weird what anxiety can do to your body. it drives me crazy I always think I'm dying of something even though I've been told by my doctor and the nurses I work with that I'm not. you're not alone. I'm going to look for counseling next week because this is not a way to live

I didn't add that I have a whole host of other symptoms as well. lol. when I forget about one I get another one and I start the cycle over. it's never ending

hey Sophie I think u commented on my post yesterday. im I'm having vibration. its like my body is vibrating and its numb xx

I get the same things . My symptoms started 14 yrs ago I was driving my son to school and for no reason at all I got very shaky and the left side of my face went numb. I managed to get him there and got home told my husband I thought I was having a stroke. Went to ER they said nothing was wrong. That began my journey of numbnes, internal shaking, heart either racing or low. Thick weird feeling in head, feeling like I'm going to pass out , dropping feeling, weak legs, heavy arms (I'm sure I am forgetting a few fun symptoms) Had MRI brain, ultrasound heart, table tilt test, and aside from a tachyardia nothing wrong so they said anxiety. I don't get anxious then the symptoms come. The symptoms come out of the blue then they make me anxious. Dr put me on amitriptyline and xanax and finally I started to get some relief. Still got the symptoms but not every day and could go months being ok. Weaned off the amitriptyline and just did the xanax as needed. This past summer it all started almost daily again. Went back on the amitriptyline didn't help at all. Now dr put me on citalopram and .25 xanax in am and Topiramate and .5 xanax pm. Mornings are the worst I wake up shaking and weak. Meds don't kick in for an hour. Then evening I get a thick numb feeling in head and nauseous. Still not convinced all this is from anxiety because I'm a pretty calm and grounded person . My best advice to you is to try and not panic when it happens cause it makes it worse. Try some breathing exercises and look up accupressure points they do help a bit. Sorry for the long comment !!!

my anxiety quite often comes on out of nowhere like that when im just sat watching tele even when i feel relaxed all of a sudden i will get a weird feeling and my palpatations start then thats it i go in to panic mode

Hi, a friend of mine sent me this" Worrying doesn't change anything, all it does is steal your joy and keep you very busy doing nothing".....Anyway I can't put myself in your shoes, but if I was, I would wait till the results come in, in the meantime concentrate on your children, keep yourself busy, change your habits, wake up every morning and start changing your thoughts to a positive ones, remember, you can do anything if you set your mind to it, don't let anything deprive you from being you....I've been there before. it took me few years to learn how to control it. Have a happy day