Serious Anxiety!?!? I really hope so!!!

Hi everyone, 

This all started about 6 weeks ago when i injured my lower back, i felt a numbness and i had a massive panic attack thinking i would never walk again. I went to the ER and was diagnosed with lower back pain. I started getting burning in the back of both of my legs a day or so after having my panic attack. I rushed back to the hospital and was told that I have sciatic symptoms. My lower back was weak and the back of my legs also, with burning down from my butt to the bottom of both my feet, and when i would sit down or stand for to long, the symptoms would worsen and then turn in the pins and needles and a feeling as if my foot fell asleep. Walking it off was the biggest relief. Anyways, i had an MRI on my lumbar spin which came back clear, so I was then diagnosed with Piriformas Syndrome. Which kinda made sense because the week prior i was doing alot of high resistance cardio and the day before I got my first symptom i did Taekwondo for the first time and I wasnt stretching. And prior to the week i started doing high intensity cardio, I was almost completely inactive in excersise due to surgery on my right shoulder joint. Well I got my MRI back about 2 weeks after the injury and everyday i was overstress, had anxiety and multiple panic attacks about having a herniated/ buldging/ slipped disc in my back.

Now during that time I started developing more weird symptoms, which started with burning in the back of my neck, which was so tense, and then I started freaking out about that, then the burning started in my back and both my arms. I then started getting pins and needles in my fingers, So i ran back to the ER two more times because of this and they did a bunch of blood work and urine tests and everything came back normal. They asked me if i have been stressed lately and they told me it is very much likely Anxiety. But i couldnt believe it, so i went home, jumped on google, which was so stupid, and started having more anxiety about having MS, or Lupus.

After getting worked up even more about week 3-4 I started getting tingles in my face whenever i would try and sleep and wake up with them too, which freaked me out even more, and caused more anxiety. After 5 days of that and going to urgent care and the hospital again, which both told me that its my anxiety, it subsided. But my worries and anxiety havent changed still. Since week 5ish until most recently I started getting muscle twitches randomly around my body, some body aches, weakness in my arms and legs and shaky when i try and lift this or put them under pressure, my arms and fingers are jittery also but im able to lift and move things still, its just the way they feel, I feel fatigued, and been a little bit forgetful laterly, my vision changes, sometimes its normal and other times is gets a little worse, feels like my eyes are strained, my neck is really tight and when i turn my head to the side it feels like it kinda jerks a little bit back and fourth but nobody can see what im talking about,  and most recently i feel like the back of my neck vibrates and sometimes my butt or legs(usually when im trying to go to sleep and my muscles or more relaxed, but usually susides after taking deep breaths and calming myself). I think that is almost all my symptoms i have been experiencing.

Ever since this started about six weeks ago, I have not had a single night of good sleep, most nights i wake up at least 4 times, and lay there anxious and worried with racing thoughs. I have been not eating enough at all, its been better this past week, but even still, i eat maybe 1000 calories at most. I havent worked out my muscles this whole time, the most i do is walk a little bit because i dont want to injure my back more. Im 5'11"-6' and 6 weeks ago i weight 220lbs and now weight about 200 lbs. The past two night I have waken up from nightmare related to health concerns and my heart was racing out of my chest. I had a nightmare a week ago about being biten by a black widow and it injecting poison in me and i woke up right when it bit me and my shoulder had a massive spasm where the spider actually bit me in the dream.

For the past week my arms and hands have been so jittery, i feel like some symptoms come on for longer periods throughout the day then others and they are changing all the time and i keep reading about diseases on the internet, and then i end up with more symptoms. i have seen many doctors, and all of them say its anxiety.  I saw  neurologist which i paid cash to see, who also said she thinks its anxiety after looking at my labs from the previous visits from the hospital and doing some physical tests during the virst. I brought up i think its MS and she said i didnt show any signs and shes not worried about that, same goes with the other doctos. I saw another neurologist 2 days ago and he questions why I think i have MS, he said he would do a nerve conduction study and maybe an EMG for me, so now im waiting for an approval.

Right now im so afraid I have MS, or Parkinsons, or ALS. but everyone i talk to says its anxiety. Has anyone else suffered from these kind of physical symptoms of anxiety that were persistant before? I know I havent been sleeping much, the malnutrition, stress and anxiety doesnt help either, but its so hard to wrap my head around anxiety and stress being that powerful over you physically.

Im 24 years old, always been very healthy, and very active. I never smoke, drink, or do drugs. I dont understand why I feel so bad everyday, i cant take it, I just want to feel normal!!!!

Im sorry for such a looooong post, i just want to get as  much as i can out there. Anyone dealing with similar things? IM SO SCARED!!!!!!HELP!!!!!

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