justjax
03-10-13, 15:21
Hi all, new to the forum today but I've suffered quite badly with Health and general Anxiety for about a decade. Anyway, I'm curious as to whether what I'm experiencing at the moment can be put down to anxiety or whether its possibly something real (in the sense of just not another side effect of my anxiety).
Over the past year, maybe two I ocassionaly get a weird sensation that I can only compare to the feeling you get when a mobile/cell phone vibrates in your pocket. The sensation is in the same area (perhaps just a few inches below where I do keep my phone, which is in the front pocket of of my trousers, right hand side. When it first started happening I thought it was the phone vibrating from getting a text message or some other alert, but realised that wasn't the case as sometimes I didn't even have the phone :D. If I'm recalling correctly, I get it for a day or so and then it seems to disappear and don't get it again for a good few months. When it occurs, it happens for maybe 30 secs or so and then not again perhaps for 10 mins, so its not constant, but randomly throughout the day.
Anyway, its flared up again yesterday and its still doing it today so I Googled (not always the best idea I know) and it brought up someone discussing the same issue in a MS forum .. so I of course check out symptons of MS and now I'm half thinking I may have MS as I have had some of the other symptons including bladders issues (freq urinating, not emptying bladder properly) coordination (feel I'm clumsy at times), muscle twitches and possibly leg weakness (although guess it depends on what they class as weakness), etc.
Has anyone else experienced this sort of sensation? Could it just be another pesky side effect of my anxiety?
Meant to add that I'm male and 45.
Over the past year, maybe two I ocassionaly get a weird sensation that I can only compare to the feeling you get when a mobile/cell phone vibrates in your pocket. The sensation is in the same area (perhaps just a few inches below where I do keep my phone, which is in the front pocket of of my trousers, right hand side. When it first started happening I thought it was the phone vibrating from getting a text message or some other alert, but realised that wasn't the case as sometimes I didn't even have the phone :D. If I'm recalling correctly, I get it for a day or so and then it seems to disappear and don't get it again for a good few months. When it occurs, it happens for maybe 30 secs or so and then not again perhaps for 10 mins, so its not constant, but randomly throughout the day.
Anyway, its flared up again yesterday and its still doing it today so I Googled (not always the best idea I know) and it brought up someone discussing the same issue in a MS forum .. so I of course check out symptons of MS and now I'm half thinking I may have MS as I have had some of the other symptons including bladders issues (freq urinating, not emptying bladder properly) coordination (feel I'm clumsy at times), muscle twitches and possibly leg weakness (although guess it depends on what they class as weakness), etc.
Has anyone else experienced this sort of sensation? Could it just be another pesky side effect of my anxiety?
Meant to add that I'm male and 45.