Hi, I've been dealing with a lot of anxiety in the past few months due to a stressful situation from an ex. Long story short I began getting panic attacks daily. Although the attacks have subsided, I've been getting a strange amount of numbness around my mouth, and sometimes in my chin and the right side of my face. Sometimes I'll get paresthesia in my hands and feet but now it's mostly in my face. I can't control it, and when I look up my symptoms online all I get is coldsores and vitamin deficiencies. However, I've never gotten a cold sore and the only deficiency I have is vitamin D. I've been to the ER twice and the Dr.'s keep brushing it off as anxiety. But I feel the numbness even when I'm calm. It feels kind of like something is crawling in my lip or like a squiggly thing running along my mouth. But again I have no lesions and my initial 2 hsv tests have come back negative. Has anyone ever experienced this?
Hi yes I have experienced the tingling in my lips and hands when I used to suffer from panic attacks, its when we breath in to much oxygen and lowers the amount of carbon dioxide in your blood caused by the anxiety even when I wasn’t in a state of panic it happened every now and then. Anxiety causes all sorts of different symptoms even when you think your calmer for me my anxiety made me feel tense 24/7 even though I wasn’t in a state of panic and was calmer the tenseness/feeling of unrest never left me, try not to worry (I know its difficult when you have anxiety) but worry can actually make you think you have things when you dont if you concentrate to much on the worrying symptom you think you have it becomes a viscious circle of you thinking its somthing terrible(health anxiety) I thought I had throat cancer years ago all because I was shouting really loudly, the more I convinced myself it was cancer the more anxious I became, went to docs she said believe me you would know if you had throat cancer. Of all the times ive thought I had somthing terrible I didnt the mind is very powerful at playing tricks on you especially when we are anxious. Happy new
Thank you so much for replying! I took a zoloft today and the feeling subsided slightly. I guess because I have so much health anxiety regarding stds, I’ve become obsessive over it. So you think that this feeling of numbness and tingling could last for even 3 weeks even in moments of calmness? Do you have any advice on what I can do to stop it? Right now it’s on the corner of my mouth mostly. It just unnerves me a lot tbh.