Periferal neuropathy or Parkinson’s?
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Hi, I'm a 30 year old female and up until now have always been very healthy and none of my previous self inflicted health scares have ever been accurate (brain tumour, ms, heart inflammation from the vaccine to name a few). But I have been experiencing the worst three months of my life. It started with some health anxiety around some midback pain I was having. I freaked out I had a tumour. My doctor thought this was ridiculous but sent me for an X-ray. As I left the X-ray scan, I remembered that a year before I had had an X-ray with contrast (due to thinking I had heart inflammation or a clot from the vaccine which I did not). I had an allergic reaction to the contrast (just a whole body rash and a very hot, swollen face). I immediately freaked out that having another X-ray would do damage to my body. The next day I woke up with shooting pains, muscle aches and twitches. Over the past three months these symptoms have been getting worse and I?ve also been getting lots of tingling. I?m talking constant muscle twitches everywhere, especially calves and feet, constant tingling and vibrating sensations in feet. It has moved into my hands and arms as well. I feel it constantly even when working out. I have had neurological exams, two brain mris, cervical, thoracic and lumbar spine mri, which only showed a minor disc bulge in lumbar spine. Now I feel like my hands are constantly shaking and I feel like my whole body is constantly vibrating and shaking too. I?ve been to the ER three times, seen countless doctors and have a referal for a neurologist in two weeks. I?m going insane with worry. It?s all I think about and I have been able to enjoy anything. Not Christmas, turning 30, nothing. I have a history of health anxiety but I?ve never in my life had such strong, constant and long lasting symptoms. I really want an emg as I?m worried I could have periferal neuropathy from the X-ray. Is it possible that this is just a really intense case of anxiety or is there really a neurological problem? No doctor seems to think so but this symptoms are full on.
Please offer some advice or share your own experiences.
Thank you.
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brody54586 Nf07249
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Hello!
Not sure if you're still having this issue but I can confirm i have the same. it's debilitating and I'm constantly thinking about it, even now my back feels like it's shivering but it's not cold! judging by the other comments on here it seems to be a very common issue. I really think it might be stress related! I can't imagine stress would do you any good! i have the following issues:
-Muscle Spams in my arm, leg and thigh.
-A trembling feeling on and off
-eye discomfort and sight oddities
-A full body vibration
-Pain my left side of my head like a burning
I haven't had a neurological exam but I will be pushing for one. though I recon the result will be null like everyone else's! it seems it comes hand in hand with anxiety!
jan34534 Nf07249
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pains, aches, , twitches, vibrating, floaters in my eyes, weakness, numbness and tingling, constant, muscle twitches, . I’ve had them all! Starting in my late 20s. I had testing done and every single test came back normal. I can completely relate to you, although I am way older than you. You may go and have testing done and everything may come back perfectly normal. Please don’t be surprised if it does.
Every single one of my sensations was due to long-term anxiety, especially health, anxiety, and stress. I have learned a lot over the years and you have to remember that the body can only take so much stress before it has a break down. That’s exactly what happened to me and why I had all those sensations. anxiety and stress tend to target the nervous system and create those sensations. Any symptom or sensation due to anxiety and stress is not harmful, but it can be very scary. I spent way too many days, weeks, months in years, worrying about all of what I was feeling. I thought I had some terrible neurological condition. I am perfectly healthy although I can definitely tell you that when I do get anxiety, some of those sensations will pop up. But now I ignore them and they fade away because I know what they are caused by. I will get muscle twitches and some of the other ones. The muscle twitches are called benign fasciculations, and they are harmless.
Sorry, this is long, but I really wanted to share my experience with you and tell you that there’s a high probability that your symptoms are related to anxiety. doctors really don’t know that much about how to illuminate anxiety and the sensations that come with it. They need to do more research studies.
what I really had to do, was focus on decreasing the anxiety because it wasn’t the sensations that were the problem, it was the anxiety that created the sensations. Counseling could help You also learn how to manage this. It’s very important to learn how to relax your mind because then the sensations will decrease. Every day I listen to meditations on YouTube for anxiety. Feel free to private message me anytime. I can give you other resources also. Take care.