Hi I'm Vicky. I've never used a site like this so it's very new to me. I've always been a worrier but now I have a two year old son it's got much worse! I've been to the doctors about tingling in hands and feet had lots of blood tests done all come back clear. But I'm still convinced there is something wrong. Ive convinced my self I have ms. In little areas all over my body my muscles spasm or just feel 'weird' . My doctor basically told me to buggar off there is nothing wrong and now I feel like I'm hassling her or wasting time. But I get in such a state. I can forget about it for a while in the day but as soon as I get a tiny twinge that feels strange I'm right back to being paranoid and irrational. I can't sleep properly and it's actually ruining the time I do spend with my son. Am I crazy??
Sometimes I find the only way to accept worry about serious illness is to accept the illness were it to be a reality and adapt to it. I used to worry about cancer all the time until I accepted that it will happen and I will die. I was able to go a long time without all these worries. I used to go to the drs constantly worried about every little ache and pain. It doesn't help it just feeds into it.
Hi Vicky,
I have been there too thinking I had ms and all sorts of things. My main anxiety used to be health anxiety.
No one on a message board can say for definite you haven't got something, all I can talk about is my experience.
Anxiety is an absolute bugger and affects your body in so many different ways. I am now completely over my health anxiety and all my wierd feelings have disappeared.
Basically, if I sat here now and said to myself constantly for 30 minutes that I had a brain tumour, my head would more than like start to hurt, but then if I didn't sleep and I was tired and I kept thinking and stressing about it, it would hurt even more. We can pretty much make any part of our body hurt, just by thinking and stressing over it!
You could be feeling things that others feel and they don't take any notice.
For me, acceptance was the way, I said 'hey, this is anxiety being daft, ok you tingle or make a pain, thats fine, keep doing it, I don't care, its just adrenaline and me being daft' ... in time I didn't get the twinges, nothing now
Just try accept for a couple of days and see how you go. Don't Google symptoms, just accept.
thank you for taking the time to reply. it sounds silly but just talking about it and hearing other peoples opinions, i slept a little easier last night. sure its going to be something i have to work on.