Rebek
02-08-18, 15:41
I've been a long time reader of the forum but have never posted. I developed health anxiety about 2 years ago that started with a weird burning with urination thing that has since gone away. Since then I have twitching, internal shaking feeling, abdominal pain, stomach issues, leg pain, an episode where my ears always felt full and couldn't pop, and the list goes on. I've been pretty good about understanding that these are anxiety and keeping myself busy to forget about them, but I've recently developed a really weird symptom that's freaking me out. About 2 months ago I started to feel arm fatigue when doing every day activities. Like they get tired really easily using my curling iron or stirring something. Then about a month ago, the kicker of them all, I started to having arm/hand shaking arms after physical use of them. For example I'd be holding a heavy box for a long-ish time and after I set it down my arms would shake/tremble, like a lot. Or for example when I do yoga and I do a lot of poses on my hands (like downward dog, etc.) afterwards my hands would shake/tremble. The same thing happened maybe 6-9 months ago but it went away fairly quickly without much thought.
I nearly had a panic attack in the last yoga class (which is very upsetting since I got to yoga to HELP my anxiety), which sent me to the Doctor who was 100% unhelpful and made me feel 100% worst. He basically said he had no idea and if it got worst I should go to a neurologist because it could be MS or ALS, although he did say it was unlikely. As you can imagine though, just mentioning those two things to people with health anxiety can send you into a downward spiral. He did not offer any other possibilities of what it could be either which really gets me. I've also had a kink in my neck since all this started but he said it was unrelated. I'm just looking to see if anyone has ever had this kind of anxiety related symptom before. It just seems weird that it only happens when I use my hands/arms to do something physical. For reference I'm 30 year old female, active but "pleasantly plump" frame.
Also, just want to say thank you to everyone who contributes to this forum. It has been immensely helpful since I developed HA.
I nearly had a panic attack in the last yoga class (which is very upsetting since I got to yoga to HELP my anxiety), which sent me to the Doctor who was 100% unhelpful and made me feel 100% worst. He basically said he had no idea and if it got worst I should go to a neurologist because it could be MS or ALS, although he did say it was unlikely. As you can imagine though, just mentioning those two things to people with health anxiety can send you into a downward spiral. He did not offer any other possibilities of what it could be either which really gets me. I've also had a kink in my neck since all this started but he said it was unrelated. I'm just looking to see if anyone has ever had this kind of anxiety related symptom before. It just seems weird that it only happens when I use my hands/arms to do something physical. For reference I'm 30 year old female, active but "pleasantly plump" frame.
Also, just want to say thank you to everyone who contributes to this forum. It has been immensely helpful since I developed HA.