Re: Weird symptom, not sure how to describe
You can have muscle twitches which can be felt but you can't see them, nor can anybody else - and they're very common with anxiety.
Causes
Stress
Hyperstimulation
Lack of Sleep
Stimulants
Medication side-effects
Vitamin/mineral deficiencies
Dehydration
Hormonal changes
Low blood sugar
This is how this symptom is described on an American anxiety website which goes into anxiety symptoms in depth..
- A certain muscle, group, or groups of muscles twitch (jerk) involuntarily. Even if you try and relax the muscle, group, or groups of muscles, the twitching continues.
- This symptom is often described as: muscles that pulse, throb, twitch, spasm, tremor, vibrate, or contract uncontrollably.
- The twitching can be slow and sporadic, intermittent, and come in waves, or it can be persistent and tremor-like.
- Muscle twitching can affect any one muscle, one group of muscles, or many groups of muscles.
- The twitching may appear for a few brief moments, last for minutes or hours, or persist for days, weeks, or indefinitely.
- Twitching can affect ANY muscle or group of muscles in the body, including those in the head, face, eyes, mouth, neck, shoulders, back, chest, abdomen, stomach, esophagus, groin, genitalia, arms, hands, fingers, legs, feet, toes, etc.
What you're describing sounds like a spasm to me. I've had this sensation in my chest muscles and elsewhere - it does feel like the muscle is 'stuck'. You can address this symptom by looking at the list of causes and seeing if things like lack of sleep, stimulants apply etc as sometimes it's as simple as hydrating, especially if you drink alcohol or coffee etc.
Then you look to your stress levels..
If this symptom is down to anxiety - it could take some time to go. It depends on how sensitised your system is and how much fear you're adding to the mix.
I've had all the tests - brain scans and MRIs all over my body and no neurological 'nasties' were ever found but I've had issues with almost every muscle I have and twitches, spasms and whatchamacalls is something that no longer surprises me with anxiety..
You say 'weird', I say MEH!
Hope this helps?
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