left leg and arm feel weak

[maria26]

Hi, I am new here and terrified I suffer badly with anxiety due to health worries. I have had for about a week a weird shaky feeling in my left arm and leg. They are not weak as I tested them with my husband and he says they are strong. Just feels weak and shaky and as if my leg wont hold me up. I have been stressed constantly for months with various things but what worries me so much about this is that it is just one side.
Does anyone experience this constantly on one side. It is not an attack but all the time. Have had lots of tests from neck down due to other scares all clear only thing not checked is brain so of course I think tumour and googled myself into panic.

Please I really need advice
Maria

[rsanchez]

I will paste for you one of the things Dr. Claire Weekes had to say about weak legs in her book, "Hope and Help for Your Nerves."
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But here again I whisper, “Jelly legs will still get you there if you will let them. It is only a feeling. Not a true weakness. Don’t be bluffed by jelly legs. And don’t add more adrenalin by being afraid of them. Let them wobble. They’ll get you across the street whether they wobble or not. And don’t think you have to hold tensely on to yourself to keep yourself from collapsing. It’s the holding on that exhausts, not the letting go. So let your legs wobble. It’s only a feeling, not a true muscular weakness.”

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Like you said, you tested your legs with your husband and they are not weak. This is just a feeling, not a true weakness. Don't add more adrenaline by fearing the feeling, just let it go. Your legs will still get you to where you want to go.

[maria26]

Tks everyone for helping. My main worry is that it is just on the one side not just a general jelly feeling. Almost as if it wont hold me up a hard to explain sensation. I know there is no loss of strength but I am petrified it means brain tumour because its not both legs or both arms just one arm and one leg on left

Please has anyone had this just on one side you all know what anxity is like so I think everyone says legs arm but I am just arm leg so I think its not anxiety

Also many thanks for posting the excerpt from the article
Maria

[FeelLikeNeo]

Hi!

I've had 'weakness' on one side for about a month. I also have muscle twitches, so I'm convinced I have a tumour or motor neurone disease. I shake quite a lot too. But deep down, I know it's just anxiety.

This might help, building on the above poster. There's a difference between perceived weakness and clinical weakness. What you have - we have - is perceived weakness. It feels like we're weak, but we're actually not. It feels like we won't lift the cup, but you're damned right we can lift the cup. It feels like we'll collapse, but we won't collapse. If there is a car coming in our direction, we will be able to jump out of the way. People with genuine clinical weakness won't be able to do that.

I've noticed I've been shaking and then realised it's because I'm tensing, subconciously. When I relax, no shaking. This is a good sign! You shake when your neurons are firing, which they do when tensing.

I think it's important not to deter people from getting tested for something more serious. If you really feel it could be something, it's worth seeing a doctor. But weakness alone - especially perceived weakness - is likely to mean you're okay, and I doubt a doctor will refer you to a specialist on that alone. Especially after a week.

[janef]

Hi,
I am new to this but I just posted under "Symptoms" and I have had numbness/tingling/ perceived weakness mainly on my right side for a month. In fact, for at least 2 weeks, the symptoms were only on the right side. That made me nervous also. But gradually, I've gotten occasional symptoms on my left side as well. My brain and neck MRI, emg in arms, blood tests were all normal.
I'm worried also but my GP and neuro seem to think it's all anxiety. I'm having a hard time believing this.