Does anyone with health anxiety ever experience muscle twitching and aching? its been happening about a week and a half now, mainly in my legs after a bad period of health anxiety. I worry every time i get something, I have been to the doctors who conducted a nerve examination with my legs and doesn’t have any concerns and suggested its just my anxiety but i’ve never experienced this with my anxiety before and now cant stop worrying about it.
muscle twitching with anxiety is very common. I’ve had health anxiety for over 30 years starting in my 20s. And muscle twitching was there right at the start. They are harmless. They are called benign fasciculation’s when related to anxiety. people can get them all the time like athletes. The way they use their muscles can cause them. But anxiety is the number one reason. I even get them on very rare occasions now and I just ignore them and they go away. The more you worry about it the more you will have them.
The main thing right now is working on reducing the anxiety so that you feel better. Hope this helps.
Hi Ryan,
yes I also experienced long episodes of that twitching since 2020. I also know further people, who experienced this. It just came out of nowhere, and for me it was some months very intense. Like fingers were moving by themselves.
For none of us this twitching was serious, its super, super likely that this is a benign conditon just like jan wrote.
Hi Stefan, thanks for the reply.
did the twitching eventually go away?
its so frustrating feels like my muscles are so tense.
Hi Jan, thanks for the response I am currently in the process of getting help with the anxiety.