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

Hi, I've been having very similar symptoms. Mine have in the main been put down to anxiety and having a slipped disc in my neck. I saw an Orthopedic specialist last year due to having weird sensations in my lower back and pelvis, an MRI revealed a disc problem. Due to poor posture and working at a desk all day this has impacted on my lower back so I get those weird pains/sensations in my legs. When I get the feelings my anxiety is terrible which makes feelings worse so I get in vicious circle. I've seen a neurologist too who believes it's most likely linked to my cervical disc problem. I totally understand how you feel it takes over your life and I avoid certain things as I'm convinced I'll keel over. I hope you get to the bottom of it.

I’m so stressed out, I already diagnose my self with MS based on my symptoms 

They are matching on the internet.

I’m like a vegetable from anxiety 

The anxiety is so debilitating. I did the exact same so my GP referred me to a neurologist for my peace of mind but only because I had medical insurance as she said she did not have enough concerns to refer via NHS. I got myself so worked up about it that became worse that the sensations. The neurologist said the best thing is always get things checked out and not to put it off and that although the internet is full of useful info, the symptoms we read on the internet are only one part of the puzzle and only a doctor can diagnose taking the whole picture into account. I really hope you get to the bottom of things sooner rather than later and try to stay positive. It is hard but at least you're now under a professional that knows better than any internet

Hi Kade and everyone,

I'm going through the same thing right now and it really scares me. I haven't been diagnosed with anxiety, but I feel as if I could have an acute version (if that's even a thing). I tell my parents (I'm 18), but no one takes me serious. My body is tense (tingling/burning arms, heavy legs, neck pain) and it kinda feels like I have a pinched nerve or something. I went to the doctor about my leg and got pain meds, but I think the medicine started to cause the side effects I'm feeling because I haven't felt like this since I started taking the medicine. I'm always on the edge and I feel like I have all of these problems (looking online has been a killer and triggers me). I have another appointment. I'll keep everyone updated who's interested.

Looking online messes me up too!! Heart attacks  run in my family and I keep thinking I’m having one. It’s a terrible cycle . Chest pains and burping up air .. and when the anxiety is gone of course so are the symptoms. But when it happens it’s hard to stop the spiral 😬

Yes, I've totally stopped going to webmd, lol but I think patient sites like this are good-they're reassuring rather than worrying. My husband has had 20 cardiac events and procedures in 20 years so that is a very big deal with me too though he usually tell me no you're ok. Nut now they are putting on those public service announcements that say well women are different and have heart attacks differently (which he also tel me is bull most of the time) and I DID have two co workers diagnosed with heart attacks that turned out not to be heartn attacks. What an er Drtold me once (when I thought I was having a heart attack is that heart attack pains comes and doesn't go, When I described what I was having , she said that sounded like anxiety, muscles, digestive issues. Once when I was walking real fast I actually TRIED for the heavy pressure, won't go away pain and could only get the come and go muscular/digestive pain.

That is me .. it comes and goes! And I tell myself no one has a heart attack every other day for a year! Plus 3 1/2 years ago they shot dye into my heart and did a scan to see if there were any partial blockages.. everything was 100 clear.. so I tell myself they don’t block up that quick . But sometimes the anxiety gives me those symptoms and I can barely fight it. I can go for a few weeks and be ok.. then something triggers it.. and is seems to last for a couple days. Totally sucks .. thanks for all your support and insight 😁

You know what your're doing right? That is part of Cognitive Behavior Therapy when you replay the logical input in your head "I had the dye, things were clear and they don't clog up that fast after having the test" "And no one has heart attacks  that often", to counter the negative "I'm having a heart attack" input. Good for you! Like I said, there are still times when the crazy switch gets flipped and only a clonazepam and someone to talk you down works but you're making progress?

Your so right! I’ll be good for a couple weeks and then one will hit and it gets aweful . Sometimes its just worrying ill have an anxiety attack that gets me feeling edgy ! Lol.. I’m looking forward to when I’m over it for good. It’s been a year of up and down with it. How long have you been going through it? Thanks for all your input 😁

I'm laughing (at myself really) at your "when I'm over it for good" statement because I've never been over it for good. I'm in my mid sixties and had my first mondo attack that sent me to a hospital in 1980. Had had a bvaby a year before and have found out through the years and from DR.s that it can be triggered by hormones. During estrogen heavy years-it was something that would only happen now and then as a reaction to an event (and you're right, being a friend of having another attack can be an event in itself) and after getting off of hormones about ten years ago it moved in permanently. That's why I have to work on it so much now with the Cognitive Behavior Techniques and it helps. I also realized through my self-stude that I'd had anxiety/phobia/avoidances even as a child. BUT it gets a lot better-we have a setback-then get up and keep going Remember. when your going through hell-keep going, lol.