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I was sitting in bed working on my laptop when the right side of my face started tingling. Started an hour ago, still there. Went on a walk to try to distract myself in case it's anxiety. I don't feel anxious and was busy working when it started. I'm scared. Has anyone else had face tingling? Never happened to me before. No facial weakness, and I don't look crooked when I look in the mirror. A lot of women in my family have had strokes - hence my concern. I'm around 50yo. I want to Google face tingling but don't want to stress myself out further.
I don't think you'd be on an anxiety website asking if it's a stroke if you were having a stroke.
Positive thoughts
I get this all the time. I also get a hell of a headache in my left temple and numbness under my eye and sometimes even my lips will tingle. I attribute mine to sinuses and perhaps anxiety pushes it further once I focus on it.
jrcoleman that sounds like a migraine
Facial tingling is a classic migraine aura
Focal migraine probably, but get checked out if you're worried as you could have trapped a nerve.
I would imagine a stroke would cause worsening symptoms and not just go away.
Sometimes anxiety symptoms can persist even when you don’t feel anxious. I get random numbness and tingling in one side of my face, toes, fingers, etc. And it can often happen long after I’ve had a bad bout of anxiety, even if I’ve calmed down. I believe this is due to the residual amounts of excess stress hormones in our body. Remember that even when panic subsides the effects of anxiety can linger for a very long time after. Anxiety does mess with the nervous system and is responsible for pretty much all of the symptoms that HAers commonly mistake for neuro disease.
It's happening again, and I'm freaking out. It happened for the first time a couple days ago and last about an hour. Then it went away, and I forgot about it. My spouse just asked me if it's happened again. I said it hasn't and then BAM - a few minutes later it happened again (I know - sounds suspicious of anxiety re the timing). Honestly though I'm not feeling anxious and haven't been. I've been in great relaxed spirits - more relaxed than in months actually. I'm so scared. Is this a stroke? If it was a stroke, does the numbness go away for a couple days then return??
No it doesn’t sound like a stroke. Why don’t you go and see your gp to see if they have any ideas.
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Calling doctor today when they’re open. Spinning out from fear!! I woke up with it again this morning.
Always good to go to the doctor and get a check - but it’s stress, I have the same for 3 years now, comes and goes, even I`m not aniouxs
Spoke to nurse today who thinks a stroke is highly unlikely. She thinks my right-sided face tingling is likely from getting my nose hit a few days ago and irritated a nerve. I felt better about it for a couple hours (even though my face still tingled), but now my right hand is feeling tingly and weird and even my right thigh. So I'm again freaking about a stroke.
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