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Health Anxiety: Twitching, Cramping, Body Checking, Numbness, etc.

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vanessavee
vanessavee

Hey everyone! For the better part of the year, I've suffered through some rather tormenting health anxiety. It's led to symptoms like twitching (all over my face, arms, legs and inside my elbow), numbness (also my face, arms, hands, legs) and now cramping. Has anyone else experienced this? I get occasional bad joint pain or tightness under my feet? Now I'm convinced there are dimples and dents in my knees where there weren't before. I've really been trying to tell myself that anxiety is doing all of this to me. But it appears even when I'm not actively stressed out.

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  • sasical72
    sasical72 vanessavee

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    Yup, unfortunately I am exactly the same. I can sometimes convince myself that it's anxiety and at other times I just think, it's impossible that all this can be "just" anxiety.

    • vanessavee
      vanessavee sasical72

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      Exactly! Some days I can try and move past it and tell myself I'm OK. Then other days (more often than not), I can't stop telling myself there's something really serious going on.

    • sasical72
      sasical72 vanessavee

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      It's exhausting! Sometimes I just give in and say to myself wether it's anxiety or real what is a certainty is that anxiety won't help so just try and get on the best you can. But again sometimes I can lean in to this thought and sometimes I can't.

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