I have had large amounts of muscle twitching all over my body and it’s frustrating
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I'm twenty years old and healthy. For the past couple months i have had extreme amounts of muscle twitching all over my body. Every day i would say each one of my muscle groups twitches at least once and some twitch throughout the day. Earlier in August i had the worst anxiety of my life when i thought i had a serious condition that was making it difficult to swallow food. This lasted for weeks and it was debilitating. I got some tests done and it turned out to be nothing serious... probably anxiety. Throughout this entire time i had zero muscle twitching. When i realized the throat problem was nothing serious i was relieved and my anxiety left but then several days later i got massive amounts of twitching. This lead me to think i could have a serious condition like ALS and my anxiety again started to climb. I have gotten checked out by my GP and he believes it is nothing serious so i have not gotten any additional tests. This has now gone on for several months. As i am writing this i am getting twitching in my chest back ans legs. I was wondering if anyone else has experienced anything like this and if anyone has any tips to hopeful get rid of my twitching?
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jan34534 ethen32381
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ethen, you can rest assured that you are fine! Muscle twitching is extremely common especially when somebody has anxiety. It is called benign fasciculation‘s. I had the same thing when I was in my 20s and I thought I had something terrible. They were all over my body and to this day when I am anxious I will get them but not as extreme as they used to be. I also had shortness of breath, floaters in my eyes, numbness and tingling, and many more symptoms. All my testing was normal. Every single one of my symptoms was due to long-term stress and anxiety.
When I saw the neurologist back then I was like you and afraid of ALS. However he told me that the twitching is not a symptom of that disease. it’s not a sensation disease. In other words you would not feel the twitching in the beginning or numbness or tingling and symptoms like those.
i want you to know that I am now in my 50s and doing well. So those twitches never did me any harm. And they still don’t. I basically ignore them if I ever get them and they eventually go away. I learned to stop jumping to worst case scenario because most of the symptoms we get throughout our life are not harmful. You’re going to be just fine. If you want to reduce the twitching, bring your anxiety level down even if you have to see a counselor. The more worries you get about everything the more symptoms you’re going to get. message me anytime you like! Take care
ethen32381 jan34534
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Thanks for the response! I have had twitching for several months now and its just really annoying. I have anxiety that comes and goes day to day. Its not debilitating anxiety more like a thought that is in the back of my head that gets worse when i start to focus on my twitching symptoms and what they could mean. I have not experienced weakness of any kind during the past several months i have experienced twitching so logically i know i probably dont have anything serious but once your brain makes the short cut to negative thoughts its really hard to escape them. I know it may take awhile for this to go away i just have to try to ignore my twitching and thoughts. Thanks again for the reassuring message!
Magic1231 ethen32381
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Hi Ethan,
this is pretty much exactly what I'm currently going through... my anxiety has been through the roof the last few days, to the point I can't sleep. whenever I do I get jolted awake by my head, I'm getting the muscle/nerve twitches all over my body. I thought having a calm day yesterday might help matters, but same thing as soon as I went to bed. woke up feeling horrific and have spent the day crying. My body is tingling and feels like its vibrating too xxx
sarah17116 Magic1231
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I am currently suffering from similar problems, I've been so anxious this week and I've been getting vibrations and tingles in my body. which then had led me to Google and find another problem to worry about, I've not slept and have the worst headache and whole body muscles aches. The vibrations and tingles bother me the most.
caleb59498 ethen32381
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Ive had the same symptoms as you going on for 5 months now, it is definitely very frustrating. I have pretty bad health anxiety and last year spent most of the year feeling anxious most of the time thinking I had all different types of terminal illness's. My guess is all that stress and anxiety finally took its toll on my body and now I have the all over muscle twitching, vibrating sensations and muscle soreness because of it. Ive been to my doctor and had low vitamin d and Magnesium so ive been taking supplements every day but that hasnt resolved the twitching. For me i notice the twitching when my body is at rest. Typically when i am busy or using the muscle the twitching goes away. But as soon as i am at rest they come back. Sometimes when my anxiety is really bad i get pretty bad "body jerks" as i try to go to sleep however as long as i dont let my anxiety get the best of me i can avoid them. I have found that having a bedtime routine helps me with sleeping better and would recommend you doing that if you have trouble sleeping. For me I take a hot bath, keep something lighthearted on TV, use a lavender essential oil diffuser and take Magnesium. Ive found that this combo helps me sleep. However, as you know you can tell yourself this is most likely anxiety but your health anxiety wont let you fully believe it so you still feel very anxious everyday. I currently take low dose Wellbutrin i dont notice that it helps much but my wife does, either way I need to talk to my Dr. about upping the dose or trying other things. If you haven't already you should talk to your Dr about anxiety medications, while they don't work for everyone and can sometimes take awhile to start working or cause unwanted side effects they can at least help take the edge off your anxiety.