Health Anxiety/ sore muscles

I've struggled for 3 years about with health anxiety and it is a total nightmare! I constantly wake up with the fear of dying and I constantly have physical symptoms which lead to more anxiety which is a vicious cycle! I am 23 years old and have a 3 year old son btw!

Hi! I also have a 3 year old. And been suffering for severe health anxiety mostly fearing of having some sort of cancer. Ive had probably lots of symptoma now, mild night sweats sometimes, dizzines, intermittent slight focal pains in the bones, mostly limbs, knees sometimes feel weak, tinglin in hands and feets that come and go away for no reason...

ive had blood tests the past two months and the doctors insist theres just no evidence to keep going on with tests... but anxiety of course tends to win and ive been experiencing almost any other emotional symptom you describe, mostly the impossibility to enjoy the day-to-day good stuffs with the love ones... somehow a paradox but its the way it feels and gets. Best.

Im so sorry to hear that, especially when you are so young, I was pretty ok no worries until I was 40 and lost my mum to cancer and my dad a year later and then we had our 5th child when I was 41, I think with me its been a combination of mum and dads illnes, having a child later in life and getting into the age group now, Im 54 where more and more people I know are getting cancer, I know its silly and such a waste of enjoying life worrying about something before it happens but so hard to fight the constant worry. I wish I could offer some positive advice, Im sure others on here will come up with things that have worked for them, at your age the chance of dying is so small just try to remember that, I know its not as easy as that when your mind takes over.

 

Currently I'm having locked up hands numbness and weakness in one arm Vertigo upset stomach vision trouble, muscle spasms, hot sensations, and the list goes on and on! I've came across probably every symptom there is! What do you do that helps us see a therapist every once in a while and I've been prescribed medication but I'm too scared to take it but I think I'm going to have to start taking it because I'm getting to a really bad point I go to the doctor a lot to get reassurance because I just can't make myself believe that the symptoms are anxiety most of the time when I have a symptom I always believe it's something dreadful I can't enjoy anything because I'm constantly worried in the back of my mind

When you say locked up hands do you mean almost like your knuckles stick when you make a fist in and out? If soni have this same thing and noticed its when im tensing my shoulders its worse even though its really hard to stop being tense. I took medication for a few months and stopped bc of the side effects and i didnt want to take meds just like you. Its creeping up on my again and if i cant get it under control i will have to consider meds again too. I go to the dr alot for reassurance as well and t will be fine for a few days abd as soon as abother symptom happens it sends me into a panic again . Its a never ending cycle.

Yes! It's when I open and close them! It like they get stuck in the joint for a second! It's horrible I do the same! I was just at the dr 3 weeks ago! I believe I'm gonna have to start medication again because mine is getting bad! I cry a lot!

I know im the same! Which arm gets numb? Is it numb to touch or just feels numb? I get like a burning heavy sensation in my arms and it switches. For a long time it was my right now lately its been my left. I find it hard to believe drs too and i hate this feeling. What kind of hot sensation do you get?

It's currently my right arm I am having trouble with but I get muscles twitches all over and hot sensation all over to! It feels like a rush of hotness! And my arm isn't numb to the touch it just feels numb and heavy! I'm at the dr now wanting to have a blood panel done!

Lol im going to the dr on friday morning too. I get muscle twitches all over and the hot sensations are just small patches like a hot cup of coffee on you skin for a few seconds and then it goes away and comes back? But its not hot to touch its like internally? Thats how mine are and i google and convince myself i have a neurological disease

Me to that's howy sensations feel! It comes and goes quickly! I don't get muscle cramps I just get spasms!

I get the little twitches everywhere, is that what you mean or do you get the big muscle spasms like charlie horses that hurt?

Yes I get the muscle twitches, I don't get Charlie horses! It's just like twitching movements right under the skin, I can usually see them!

Yes thats what i get everywhere!!! Is just annoying but it scares me. I also get burning sensations that feel like a sunburn on the tops of my feet and hands

I'm pretty sure I've had every symptom in the book it used to be headaches really bad and now it's not headaches now it's more neurological symptoms like the twitching numbness things like that and that also scares me more than anything I just had my blood work drawn to check for electrolyte levels because I doctor said that can cause a lot of your problems you're having

Yes i have had blood work and it was all fine except my iron levels are a little bit low. Hey just keep telling me all of these symptoms are anxiety symptoms and that neurological disease dont present this way bc i google and they pop up so i had myself in a nervous breakdown for 8 mo ths convinced it was that. Everytime one symptom wpuld het better i would get a new one

Oh my gosh you sound exactly like me I went to the eye doctor last week because my eye lid felt droopy and I thought I was going to have a brain aneurysm and he checked both of my eyes and they looked good and once I stop focusing on that symptom it went away and then a new symptom pops up my whole arm went numb and weak last night and I went into a full-blown panic attack

It's like I swear I could be the doctor myself because I know so many symptoms and I know what causes all of them

Lol yes that happened to me 2 nights ago!!! I woke up at 230am and it felt like my arm was numb and heavy and weak but when i touched it it wasnt numb. I went into a panic and I woke my fiancé up i was so scared and once i calmed down it went away. But yesterday morning i was focused on it and it came back until i stopped thinking about it

Do you live in canada?

No I live in the US! Mine isn't numb anymore but it still feels weaker than the other! Hopefully my blood work will tell me something!

My guess is that your blood work eill all be normal and they will tell you, like me, that everything is caused from all the tension and anxiety. How long did it feel numb for? Was it actually numb or just feel numb?

It wasn't actually numb to the touch just felt numb and weak and for about 15 minutes maybe and it still feels weird and the joint of my shoulder! I was laying on it when it happened so idk if I pinched a nerve or something like that

Haha most likely! Mine gets the numb feeling when im standing sometimes but i notice im tensing. It scares me so much i tense my other arm to see if i can create the same sensation to prove its tension and not something else. Its that bad. And i can usually make it feel he same by tensing it but do you know it still worries me 😑

Sounds just like me if I get a symptom on one side of the body I tried to do it on the other to the other side because somehow that makes me feel better LOL also if I have a symptom I'm constantly checking myself in the mirror or checking to see if that symptom is there or not which makes things worse

I can sit down and try to watch TV and a few minutes later I'll noticed that my muscles are tense and I'll relax them and then I think to myself I'm probably tense every time I sit down or every time I go to sleep which probably caused me a lot of other problems I hold a lot of tension in my neck and shoulders anyways

So do I! I actually went and got a massage yesterday because I was so tense and sore. Now today I feel like I'm bruised. I also get sent into a panic when I'm sitting or laying for too long trying to watch TV and I get tingling so now I try to avoid sitting for too long. It's exhausting

Me too I could be sitting trying to watch TV and trying to relax and it's like my brain knows it and it's trying to get me up again because I'll start getting tingly or dizzy so I also try not to sit for too long that seems like the most time to panic is when I'm trying to relax