One Sided Funny Feelings

[buttonsblackie]

Hi

I have had problems with anxiety attacks for about 20 years and have pretty much learnt to live with it - only having to give myself good talking to's in the work loo's on infrequent ocassions now.

However I wonder if anyone has had these symptoms? -

I had a sinus infection in November 2005 and since then I have had the weirdest symptoms in the right hand side of my body only.

My scalp feels numb and it goes down into my face and across my eye, my leg feels a bit weird - like it is weak and numb but with no actual weakness or numbness and interestingly it only has this feeling from the knee down, my arm feels a bit odd and I get dreadful pains in my neck and shoulders (this time on both sides of my body) that appear out of the blue, last for 3 days (or so) and then clear up. I also get dizzy feelings in the right hand side of my head only. I think sometimes I forget things and I can't talk properly but no-one else seems to notice. Some days the symptoms are worse than others but they are always there.

I have been to the GP around 5 times - he says he has no idea what is wrong with me, gave me Amitryptline for the pain in my face (which I didn't take due to the long list of side effects and the fact that I am definitely not clinically depressed), and has now asked for a neurological examination but it is unlikely that I will get an appointment for 6 months to see a specialist.

Does it sound like anxiety to you? Symptoms do diminish when I do something else. I have obviously been on the internet and have self diagnosed MS, Lupus, Brain Tumour and a few more serious illnesses. I don't think I have any of these as the sypmtoms have got no worse in the last 3 months. I might add that I am currently temping and have thought on more than one ocassion that if I got a serious illness at the moment I would be scuppered as I would have no money to live on.

Any thoughts gratefully received.

r

BB

[jackie]

bb, it is anxiety. however one of the symptoms of my anxiety is a weakness and pain all the way down the left hand side of my body. the doc said it is left sided neuralgia. this is totally harmless and affects people who are low mentally or phisically. i dont no if this sounds similar but mine only lasts for a few days and then clears up

other than that i feel it is anxiety related
i hope this helps
jackie

[Meg]

Good for you in talking yourself out of the dire illnesses.

You tried massage, yoga etc

Common Symptoms of Panic Attacks, Anxiety, Phobias and OCD. (http://www.nomorepanic.co.uk/NMPcms.php?nmppage=symptoms)

First Steps: First Steps to overcoming Panic and Anxiety (http://www.nomorepanic.co.uk/showthread.php?t=942)

Health Anxiety (http://www.nomorepanic.co.uk/NMPcms.php?nmppage=healthanxiety)

The Battle that Rages in my Head (http://www.nomorepanic.co.uk/showthread.php?t=4149)
struggling... (http://www.nomorepanic.co.uk/showthread.php?t=6901)
TAKE A STAND?! (http://www.nomorepanic.co.uk/showthread.php?t=6823)

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feel like world is moving (http://www.nomorepanic.co.uk/showthread.php?t=5827)
moving floor (http://www.nomorepanic.co.uk/showthread.php?t=6056)
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Does anyone get these symptoms please? (http://www.nomorepanic.co.uk/showthread.php?t=7503)


Left arm, left leg problems (http://www.nomorepanic.co.uk/showthread.php?t=4295)


Meg
www.anxietymanagementltd.com

Your anxiety is the human representation of the pictures that you paint using your many vivid colours of revolving and reoccurring thoughts.
How big is your gallery ?

[Trish]

Just to say... that Amitryptline is also used as a muscle relaxant in a smaller dose...my GP put me on this drug when i had an injury to my neck while i was working.

I hope you feel better soon.


Trish

[ashley]

A few years back , i had that on my left side going down my body and every time i made a movement i kinda had this pain down my body...oh god it was awful..i was so convinced i had a stroke or something... dig this though along side it i had major bad headaches with my speech feeling slurred-i would forget things, so by this time i had written myself of...i thought i had altzimers...dont laf...but when i got a check up with my doc and also going relaxtion classes i started to gain control on my life again,it took a little while yes... but i did it.
You know what totally amazes me, is how powerful our minds are-
babe you do have every right to get ya self checked out, i mean its always best they anyone does that... but im like 101 % sure that it is anxiety.
You will be fine, get those tests done just for your own piece of mind, why not.. but they will all come back fine you'll see im right.
I know how you feel , ive suffered with anxiety for 15 years and you just get tired of it dont you...

Your be fine love

ash x

[SuedeFan]

Hi BB,

I have had similar symptoms to you for the past eight years or more. I have had tingling and numbness down my right had side, but never in the left. In my case, it started in the little finger of my right hand. It was never there continuously. Instead, it lasted for a couple of weeks, then went away for a few months, before coming back again. I now know that it was responding to the comings and goings of my anxiety. Later on, it moved to my right leg. As with you, I felt it only below the knee. Recently, I have also had muscle pains, and what I perceived to be moderate weakness in my right leg, again below the knee.

For a long time, I managed to convince myself that I had contracted a specific, highly improbable disease which I had skilfully researched in great detail on the internet. And I had good reason to believe that this would affect the right hand side of my body. Consequently, I am convinced that my mind played up on any symptom occurring on my right hand side, while ignoring any occuring on the left.

Moreover, whenever we become concerned about a particular part of our body, particularly where muscle weakness is concerned, then I am sure we "test" that part, whether it be a leg, an arm, a hand or whatever - more and more. Repeated "testing" of any muscle group more or less guarantess that pain and weakness will ensue in that muscle group.

I found the following recent post extremely useful, and can identify with more or less every thought process the author has gone through. Have you seen it?

For those that twitch & tingle and worry about ALS (http://www.nomorepanic.co.uk/showthread.php?t=8042)

I would not worry too much that your doctor cannot explain all of your symptoms to you. My doctor could not explain all of my symptoms to me when I first saw him eight years ago. However, he was adamant that I was suffering from anxiety rather than anything terminal and got pretty cross with me when I refused to believe him!

The more I visit this board and read about people experiencing precisely the same weird bodily sensations as me, while attributing them to some other improbable illness* that I had never considered attributing them to, the more I realise we are all in the same boat. We are all anxious. Nothing more and nothing less.

I hope I have managed to convince you, perhaps just a teeny bit ...

Best wishes,

Andy

*Please do not take offence at this. I am proud to say that the improbable disease I occasionally worry about is far more improbable than anything you have listed. So there!

[buttonsblackie]

Thanks for all the replies - it is reassuring to find that there are other people suffering similar symptoms to me - I am fairly convinced that it is an anxiety related illness to due my marvellous ability to remain standing and continue working throughout the entire time I have had these symptoms.

Thanks for the links to other posts - I had to laugh at the one where the person was having the internal dialogue - it was so like what I do that I could have written it myself. I notice that a lot of weakness appears to be on the left side and wonder if my right hand weakness is due to me being left handed.

Anyway as a (reasonably) rational person, looking on as a third party, if I was my doctor I would probably tell me to get out and free his time up for ill people.

And Andy - I am sure that I can work up the symptoms for any improbable disease you want given free access to the internet and a couple of hours!!

Regards

BB

[SuedeFan]

<b id="quote">quote:</b id="quote"><table border="0" id="quote"><tr id="quote"><td class="quote" id="quote"> I notice that a lot of weakness appears to be on the left side and wonder if my right hand weakness is due to me being left handed.</td id="quote"></tr id="quote"></table id="quote">

Hmmm. I, too, had wondered why I appeared to be the only person with right side weakness. I too am left-handed. Maybe you have hit on something there BB?!