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Scared help!! Severe anxiety and arms and legs feel tired/weak

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Soanxious
Soanxious

Does anyone feel weak like tired muscles in the legs and arms with anxiety and have no energy. I also have burning feeling in arms sometimes. I know I'm tense but 8n still panic. I have had severe anxiety for the last 3 months and it's scaring me alot. I juat eant to feel normal again. I feel like I'm not myself at all like I'm just in a daze all the time.

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  • lee12629
    lee12629 Soanxious

    Posted

    Burning feeling in your arms is probably from tight neck muscles from stress.Might want to tell the doctor about it to be sure.
    • Soanxious
      Soanxious lee12629

      Posted

      I have talked to people on here that get the burning feeling in their arms there are some posts about it and yes you are probably right I do have extremely tight neck muscles and I find myself tensing my shoulders and arms alot but it still makes my health anxiety and panic kick in I just have so many symptoms and convince myself somwthing serious is wrong and is taking over my lifesad
    • lee12629
      lee12629 Soanxious

      Posted

      I feel bad for you,people that dont have anxiety just cant relate,my husband doesnt understand mine or my sons,can get very depressing.
  • pamela2016
    pamela2016 Soanxious

    Posted

    Sorry Tracy didn't mean to take over your post but your not alone in the way you feel I feel all that you do and its horrible. I'm going to stay me a post and just put all I feel in detail and if anyone can reassure me its not a heart condition I'd appreciate it
    • Soanxious
      Soanxious pamela2016

      Posted

      Oh no not at all. It's good to talk to people going through the same things as horrible as it is. I haven't even been able to work I feel so badsad I do have a little bit of the swaying dizziness feeling mostly if I'm out in a store it seems. My head feels heavy my arms and legs feel weak like I just did a workout and it makes me panic more and i feel like I'm going to collapse. After a little it goes away and then comes back later
    • abby4795
      abby4795 Soanxious

      Posted

      Hi there I have this same issue like It holds me from living my life ... I've cryd so many times in this past month I just want all of it to go away my muscles neck jitters everything is just a terrible thing to have it does help to talk to anyone going through the same issue we all help eachother

  • lee12629
    lee12629 Soanxious

    Posted

    I have had anxiety for years,i just usually get a fast heart rate,at times stomach issues,sometimes palpitations,im on a med so dont usually get extream symptoms with dizziness etc.Years ago when I would get actual panic attacks i once experianced a mild case of hyperventalation.
  • amanda1827h
    amanda1827h Soanxious

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    Hi Tracy, Have you ever heard of Reflexology? or Aromatherapy? Both good for tension. Your health food shop will be helpful.I have rescue remedy, & am also on beta-blockers.( propranalol.) I also find a Jacuzzi is also wonderful to ease tension in me.Good luck, keep thinking positive thoughts. regards Amanda 
  • beestr
    beestr Soanxious

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    Hi Soanxious,

    I was searching through the internet and I am having EXACT same symptoms as you. My arms and legs feel tired/weak/exhausted. Feels like as if I did a gym session or been out in town all day/night and legs feel like they want to drop. I am also tense and have been diagnosed with anxiety a year back. It scares me a lot too and i want to feel normal again. Just wondering, how has your symptoms been now? Have you visited any specialists? Did you get a diagnosis?

    • Soanxious
      Soanxious beestr

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      Hi,

      I have gone to so many doctors bc I didn't believe that anxiety could make me feel that bad. I literally had a nervous breakdown and i am alot better then I was 8 months ago but still have bad days. 8 months ago I laid in bed tensed everyday didn't eat hardly anything, lost over 15lbs had panic attacks 2 or 3 times a day and was scared for my life that something serious was wrong bc I felt so weak. I went to a neurologist had emg tests and an assessment and he said he wasn't worried at all and that I was so tense which was the reason for my symptoms. After that I started making myself get up and do things little by little. I am still tensemble especially in my neck and my arms and hands get tired holding my cell phone texting and I have really bad posture so that doesn't help. I have been going to physio and t9 a chiropractor and they tape my shoulders back to help with posture. It's all stress and anxiety and when you have panic attacks you tense up and your already really tense and it causes all kinds of symptoms and pains. My drs all told me that the muscles become so tensed around the nerves it can cause alot of problems. Hope this helps.

    • beestr
      beestr Soanxious

      Posted

      thanks for your reply. It's been 1.5 months and leg and arm "weakness" still there. All my MRI scans came back negative (Full Spine and Brain) and blood tests. I will be doing an EMG/NCS test today. I have been going physio and doing pilates. I just want to feel normal. I just don't believe stress and anxiety can cause all these symptoms for this LONG. Can stress/anxiety cause these symptoms for this long, which is constant every day, from morning to night...?
    • Treeswing000
      Treeswing000 beestr

      Posted

      I have weakness in my left leg that comes and goes. Also pressure on one eye after super dry eye. I've woken up with tingling arm and leg. All one side. I think this is all anxiety as we recently had our first pregnancy turn into a miscarriage and we are moving back to our hometown after my husbands job fell through. Lots os pressure. I think I'm constantly fatigued or maybe just depressed that I'm feeling this way physically so I've been mopey lately. Sinus pressure on one side. Heart beats like crazy. Light headedness. Ugh.

    • ashley01293
      ashley01293 Treeswing000

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      Omg yes!! I'm going thru it right now, was at er twice this week. I'm so scared I've got ms or als. I'm so tired and muscles feel exhausted. It's almost like if you were lifting weights and you set them down, that feeling after words. That's how my arms and legs feel. I'm so scared. I'm afraid I'm gonna die. I'm

      Going to see an neurologist Monday and I'm so scared he's gonna say I have lugherits disease or ms. This hasppnes even when I'm calm. That's why I'm so scared 😥😥😥😥please help.

    • holly02163
      holly02163 beestr

      Posted

      hi did you have an mri with contrast ?only asking as i too had these symtoms

    • dan1elle
      dan1elle

      Posted

      and how are you now?

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