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Poasible anxiet, neurological symptoms

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Rogola
Rogola

I was writing here a year or more ago. For a couple of years I am having a lot of neurological symptoms which I will try to explain here. I've done Emng, tnt test and a couple of neurologist visists in 2019. Since then, it is not much worse, maybe not worse at all, but all symptoms are still here and I am once again focused on them and it's making me crazy. They were here all the time but I have lived my life trying not to pay attention but now I am still frightened. My symptoms are different. I have twitching all over but mostly in my hands, fingers and left leg... There are periods (like now) when my eyelashes twitch for a week or more... That's making me go crazy. I often become very shaky... Like doing some everyday thing, taking or handing something I feel shakiness in my upper back... My lips are shaky as well... When I am drinking for cup or smoking a cigar my lips tend to shake, mostly lower lip, not always but it happens... Sometimes when I yawn my torso shakes... I often have restless feeling in my left leg and sometimes it shakes when I try to pick up something from floor. I sometimes feel muscles weakness but it is strictly my feeling as I always can perform anything physical needed from me... I am obese and started going to gym a couple of months ago. I don't lose strength, I am not weaker comparing to two years ago. There are no signs of muscle wasting or anything like that. my grip is strong the same. I can easily walk on toes and heels, so no new specific signs compared to two years ago, but back and muscles shakiness and twitching are still here and once again they are making me so anxious. Does anyone experience specific things like this? I do not want to start again that hell circle of going to doctors and not eating and sleeping. I just want some reassurance and I am hoping to get it here...

wish you all the best and hope to hear from someone soon!

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  • Rogola
    Rogola

    Posted

    I forgot to mention that I sometimes get cramps in my lower ribcage, or in back when I stretch. I am really scared of als, ms or parkinsons... The only thing that still holds me together is that I am telling myself that it would progress over two years, it wouldn't be the same or just slightly worse...

  • ChrisLancs83
    ChrisLancs83 Rogola

    Edited

    Hi Rogola,

    I have also had muscle fasciculations for many years, pretty much all over my body and including my eyelids, its extremely annoying. I was also convinced at one point I had ALS as well, but thats clearly not the case.

    Alot of the symptoms you have listed in your post are ones that I have experienced myself and do on a daily basis. If I sit there and overthink them and focus on them, I make my anxiety far worse and which leads to the symptoms much worse.

    If you are truly worried about MS then perhaps go back to the doctors and seek an MRI scan and another follow up with a neurologist.

    As you have eluded to yourself, it is very, very unlikely for you to have any of the conditions mentioned due to the fact that they are all progressive diseases and your condition would have become much worse, most likely to the point of affecting your daily life noticeably.

    Maybe ask for a blood test to see if you are deficient in any vitamins or minerals, I had a folic acid deficiency a while ago and that seem to amplify my anxiety and physical symptoms massively.

    Good luck, I hope you get to the bottom of this and you are able to lead a happy and worry free life.

  • Rogola
    Rogola

    Posted

    Hi Chris!

    Your comment means a lot to me really! It makes me feel better and more comfortable with those annoying sensations.

    I am afraid to go to neurologist once again as I don't want to start another episode of really high anxiety when I was really bad and no one could reassure me... So I am afraid that I will star that episode again if UI star going to doctors again now... Not sure if you understand what I am trying to say. That is the reason I am seeking reassurance here, as I know many of anxious people are going or went through the same as I am...

    Once again, thank you very much! You were more than helpful today!

  • sasical72
    sasical72 Rogola

    Posted

    I have had all those symptoms from anxiety. Anxiety truly does mess with the nervous system.

    • Rogola
      Rogola sasical72

      Posted

      Yes it looks like it does... unbelievably real feeling...

      thank you for comment!

  • jan34534
    jan34534 Rogola

    Edited

    yes I have had everyone of your symptoms and I’ve had anxiety and stress for over 30 years. I know how the symptoms can linger but when it’s due to anxiety it’s not harmful. If it was harmful I wouldn’t be here by now. The muscle twitching is very common with anxiety and stress. I’ve had that on and off for all those years along with floaters, in my eyes, vibration feeling in the brain, arms and legs, have the same restless feeling in my left leg also, sometimes a mild weak feeling, and several more. All of my testing has been normal. I know that it’s 100% a result of my long-term anxiety. I learn to live with some of it however I’ve taken A proactive approach and started exercising, lifting light weights to build core strength no matter what symptoms are going on I’m not going to allow it to defined me. Strong body equals a strong mind.

    it’s great that you are getting exercise. Do everything you can to be healthy physically and you will feel healthier mentally. I also take extra B vitamins for the nervous system. Along with other things.You can do this. Take care

    • Rogola
      Rogola jan34534

      Posted

      Dear Jan, thank you very much on Our answer. It means a lot to me! I am not sure when the greatest scare of my life have became neurological diseases... So that is making it difficult for me to look at the future, make a family etc... Because I always expect that something will progress and I will end up helpless in bed in young age with unhappy woman and kids... So that is why I am scared to death from my symptoms... I am 29 years old and it is not normal to be focused so much on this kind of things... It actually broke my relationship of 3.5 years...

      But still I find it easier when I say to myself that if it is something so bad it would progress in this 2-3 years...

      And means a lot when I hear similar experiences.

      Thank you a lot!

      Wish you all the best!

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