How do you tell the difference between anxiety and something else?

[uk23]

How do you know if its anxiety symptoms or something else?

[PoppyC]

Hi
It depends what the symptoms are. Most illnesses cause pain of some sort - be it stomach pain or whatever and aches - but anxiety is more about that awful anxiety feeling you get, panic, plus shaking and being sick. I know the difference myself between being sick with anxiety or with a stomach bug, but that is just me.
Do you think you have more than anxiety?
I guess only a doctor could tell if it is anything else.

[uk23]

Im not really sure, this is something ive thought about and wondered if its just the combination of being anxious, ibs and not eating enough since the booster shot.

[uk23]

I checked my blood pressure, pulse and temperature.

bp: 112/67
pulse: 109
Temp 36.6 (normal for me)

One of the things is like a rush of nerves in the body, hard to explain but sort of like butterflies feeling but everywhere - is that textbook anxiety?

[KK77]

Yes, it's probably a surge of adrenaline. Textbook panic/anxiety. And once the body becomes accustomed to this it can happen in the absence of any anxiety and actually trigger it off.