VioletsInABreeze
27-07-11, 20:09
I’m 19, since February I’ve been jumping to conclusions about my health (diasgnosing myself with eye cancer, cancerous moles, a kidney infection, and more recently a brain tumour).
Since last Monday, I’ve been paranoid I has MS or a problem with my nervous system.
Initially I was just worrying 3 weeks back because my muscles one day suddenly started to twitch. It started with my thumb, and it did it frequently throughout that day, but the twitching would be one place, take a break, and then jump to somewhere else.
The frequency of twitches has reduced since it started 3 weeks ago and now, it might occur for a few seconds 1 – 3 times during the day. I know that it always comes on in my legs if I’ve done a lot of walking or a cardio workout.
My main worry at the moment is why I keep feeling unsteady when walking about.
It began last Wednesday, after sitting for 2 hours in the cinema, when I started walking around afterwards, my knees felt really weak. Because of the twitching, I was really paranoid about something like this developing, so I freaked out and my focus was stuck on this. Also, when I stood still, it felt like I was swaying, even if the weak feeling in my knees went.
I keep finding the weakness in my knees or the unbalanced feeling in my feet comes on after I’ve been sat for ages (which I have been doing so for a month). Last summer holiday I was doing at least 30 mins of intense exercise every day.
The thing is I’ve yet to fall over or even trip over my feet. Yesterday I walked about 6 miles and didn’t stumble once despite my knees feeling so weak, same for a few days on Saturday back when I was stood up for ages and walking a lot. It’s just I did freak out yesterday as I kept I lightly brushed past my walking companion twice (I felt like I was walking like a crab), as well as a few chairs in a café.
Weird thing is, since that 6 mile walk yesterday, the swaying feeling when stood still didn’t occur this morning. It’s like my balance felt stronger. Same goes for a few moments ago when I was supervising my little cousin.
But I am really freaked out, because I’ve been stumbling over the odd word in a sentence too, BUT this occurred way before ANY of this, it really tends to happen when my mouth’s dry and I did this last summer as well. I can however sing lyrics perfectly fine and if I think out what I want to say, the words come out fine.
I do wonder if a bit of the swaying has been psychological I’ve imagined a few times I was swaying whilst sat down or lying in bed.
So, the main things that are freaking me out;
- The swaying about when walking
- Feeling like I’m swaying when stood still (but NOT unbalanced like when you’ve spun around and around)
- Twitching muscles
- Stumbling over words
>_< I honestly worry I’ve got something awful and I'm so scared, but of course, that's health anxiety talking! @_@
Since last Monday, I’ve been paranoid I has MS or a problem with my nervous system.
Initially I was just worrying 3 weeks back because my muscles one day suddenly started to twitch. It started with my thumb, and it did it frequently throughout that day, but the twitching would be one place, take a break, and then jump to somewhere else.
The frequency of twitches has reduced since it started 3 weeks ago and now, it might occur for a few seconds 1 – 3 times during the day. I know that it always comes on in my legs if I’ve done a lot of walking or a cardio workout.
My main worry at the moment is why I keep feeling unsteady when walking about.
It began last Wednesday, after sitting for 2 hours in the cinema, when I started walking around afterwards, my knees felt really weak. Because of the twitching, I was really paranoid about something like this developing, so I freaked out and my focus was stuck on this. Also, when I stood still, it felt like I was swaying, even if the weak feeling in my knees went.
I keep finding the weakness in my knees or the unbalanced feeling in my feet comes on after I’ve been sat for ages (which I have been doing so for a month). Last summer holiday I was doing at least 30 mins of intense exercise every day.
The thing is I’ve yet to fall over or even trip over my feet. Yesterday I walked about 6 miles and didn’t stumble once despite my knees feeling so weak, same for a few days on Saturday back when I was stood up for ages and walking a lot. It’s just I did freak out yesterday as I kept I lightly brushed past my walking companion twice (I felt like I was walking like a crab), as well as a few chairs in a café.
Weird thing is, since that 6 mile walk yesterday, the swaying feeling when stood still didn’t occur this morning. It’s like my balance felt stronger. Same goes for a few moments ago when I was supervising my little cousin.
But I am really freaked out, because I’ve been stumbling over the odd word in a sentence too, BUT this occurred way before ANY of this, it really tends to happen when my mouth’s dry and I did this last summer as well. I can however sing lyrics perfectly fine and if I think out what I want to say, the words come out fine.
I do wonder if a bit of the swaying has been psychological I’ve imagined a few times I was swaying whilst sat down or lying in bed.
So, the main things that are freaking me out;
- The swaying about when walking
- Feeling like I’m swaying when stood still (but NOT unbalanced like when you’ve spun around and around)
- Twitching muscles
- Stumbling over words
>_< I honestly worry I’ve got something awful and I'm so scared, but of course, that's health anxiety talking! @_@