I'm back. I'm John and I'm 20, And still suffering with symptoms that I'm not sure are from anxiety. My mind is all over the place, "is it MS?, ALS?, Lupus?, Brain tumor?, lymes disease?" This is on a track in my brain all day. It started a day after my wisdom tooth surgery. I was getting cold, icy hot feelings on my left arm that concerned me. Days later it was tingling in my left arm, and leg. Then heaviness in my left arm and leg. Then it died down and went back to tingling and muscle twitches and the following day back to cold patches. While this was the majority experience on my left side, I do feel cold patches on my right sometimes as well. It feels like icy hot on my skin in palm sized patches. They last anywhere from 10 minutes to a few hours. I've also been very sensitive to the cold (something I've never felt) my armpits are sweating profusely even when I'm at rest and cooled off. Today I can feel a stinging tightness in the left side of my face as well as the other body sensations. I've seen 2 doctors and they said they aren't worried (this was before it got worse) one doctor said it could be cervical radiculopathy because I was also experiencing bad neck pain and nerve pain in my shoulders and back. Is it possible the general anaesthesia could have done this to me? A vitamin deficiency possibly? Or something worse ? I have a strong history of severe health anxiety.
I think it most like is anxiety as i have read so many post from people thinking the same as you with doctors unable to find anything wrong. I get muscle twiches and zaps and the worst is a buzzing feeling. Health anxiety is the worst.
The tingling in my face comes when I have a headache and then my head usually feels heavier on the right side.... I’ve been trying to self diagnose as well. It’s so weird that so many of us have the same symptoms yet no one is talking about it. It’s kinda like being alone but knowing that someone out there feels exactly like u.
Yeah I'm so sick of this that the anxiety wakes me up about every 10 minutes in my sleep
Helo John
Glad you sorted your Wisdom tooth.
Your problems sound like you are suffering Anxiety, consider your irrational fears. MS, you would really know something was wrong if you had something like that. My condition is a MS mimic and it can really get me crawling the walls.
Because of your extensive fears talk to your GP, it is Anxiety and I feel to discuss all above would be counterproductive. Your GP will need to arrange a course of treatment to approach your fears and give and direct you towards various coping skills. there is only two people that can help is a Councillor and yourself. You need help and assistance to gain confidence in your own health needs, and understand most problems as such are quite normal day to day
BOB
You have generalized anxiety disorder. It's just anxiety don't let anxiety trick your mind.