ScaredArkansan
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- Aug 27, 2012
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I've been here in the past, going back almost 4 years now. I won't go into my history because it can be seen by going through my post history and I'm almost certain typing it all out would break some sort of character limit.
Since about the 20th of February I've been having some troubling symptoms. I had gotten well over my fears and was working out really hard for about three weeks. I was spending 20 to 30 minutes a day hitting a heavy bag and doing some light jogging among a few other things. I developed a lingering pain in my left shoulder and chalked it up to over work, so I decided to take a break. After a day or so the pain was between both my shoulder blades and my left knee was having random pains when walking as well as the knee cap feeling a little "slidy" and clicking. I also noticed some twitches around that knee.
I made a mistake and got to googling things and looking back over web forums. Before long I was have large jumping twitches all around my left knee cap. A bit later I noticed some twitches in my right hand between thumb and forefinger, some were big jumpers but there was a spot that just rippled for a few hours which I could see but not feel. It stopped eventually.
Skip forward a bit and I went to the ER this Friday thinking I was having a heart attack, turns out it was likely indigestion or a trapped gas pocket neither of which are new to me. I had a full blown panic attack while there. Now prior to this for a week or so I was noticing some dry throat and just kind of feeling weird in my mouth/throat.
I was relatively ok Saturday. However Sunday we had a round of huge storms which are a manager source of anxiety for me. That night I kept having the worst twitches in my calves, I decided to try and get some sleep. Upon laying down it felt like I had a sharp pain deep in my stomach, I panicked and the next thing I know it felt like there were worms crawling around under my back, my calves were twitching like nuts, etc. I didn't sleep until 5 AM.
Anyway needless to say it's been a rough few days, I've lost my job, and nearly my sanity. Though I have started on a medication.
I'm just so frightened of my symptoms.
* Twitches that I can see but not feel, I've found that both of my calves have been doing this for at least the past two days. I've also noticed this on my right tricep. On my calves at least I still have quite a few that I can feel as well, but the ones I can't feel seem to occur in the same spots.
* My tongue twitches, even at rest I can see it twitching as can my wife and mother. However interestingly my mothers tongue twitches at rest as well and I get mixed signals on whether this actually means anything.
* Twitches in my throat. Really scary sensation that one.
* Transient pains, I will get little flare ups of sharpish or dullish aches and pains. Pains and slight tightness that starts if I move a limb. The odd pinched feeling in my elbows from time to time. I'm afraid these pains are cramps and I'm just not realizing it.
* Random muscle soreness
* My throat feels mucousy and I feel like I need to clear it. My mouth stays dry and cottony as does my throat. I nearly always feel like I have something at the back of my throat or tongue. It feels like food goes down slow. I also feel like I have just a little bit of stuff in my upper chest and when I breath in very deep or exhale hard there is a small sharp pain near my collar bone right under my throat.
* I feel myself catching on words, and feeling like certain sounds are off. Not constantly but some. No one else seems to notice.
* My calves go off nearly constantly.
* My right knee constantly feels stiff as does that leg, and that leg happens to the be sight of a large amount of my twitches. Sometimes when I put weight on it for something as I release the weight it's like it wants to let go a little slowly.
* I have been having tingling sensations in my hands and feet some. Sometimes when I go to sleep my right hand will feel off, get tingling and cold. Earlier today my right felt weird and cold at the foot.
* Been really sweaty the past few days.
* An odd vibrating sensation inside my chest, throat, and hands. When I bend down or exert any muscle it shakes. My hands shake/tremor as well.
* Feels like my left eye is off somehow. When I shift my eyes I swear it seems just a bit off catching up and sometimes it's blurry.
* oh and from time to time one of my knees will sort of "buckle". My mom and grandmother do this as well though.
Honestly the resting tongue twitches and the constant twitches that are seen but not felt are the scariest. As the fact that my right leg has been occasionally doing that thing where it's stiff letting go of weight going back perhaps two months.
I'm really terrified at this point. Truly scared that I have something serious. No one believes me. I went to the doctor about it but we didn't really go into depth and he just put me on some anti-anxiety meds. I have had bouts of stuff like this for nearly 4 years now but I've never been to a neuro and my last clinical was toward the beginning of all this though it was clean.
If someone would be kind enough to talk to me about this I would really appreciate it. The folks here have been so wonderful in the past when I've been at low. I've been having episodes where I notice a "symptom" and break out in a cold sweat and shake and cry.
Since about the 20th of February I've been having some troubling symptoms. I had gotten well over my fears and was working out really hard for about three weeks. I was spending 20 to 30 minutes a day hitting a heavy bag and doing some light jogging among a few other things. I developed a lingering pain in my left shoulder and chalked it up to over work, so I decided to take a break. After a day or so the pain was between both my shoulder blades and my left knee was having random pains when walking as well as the knee cap feeling a little "slidy" and clicking. I also noticed some twitches around that knee.
I made a mistake and got to googling things and looking back over web forums. Before long I was have large jumping twitches all around my left knee cap. A bit later I noticed some twitches in my right hand between thumb and forefinger, some were big jumpers but there was a spot that just rippled for a few hours which I could see but not feel. It stopped eventually.
Skip forward a bit and I went to the ER this Friday thinking I was having a heart attack, turns out it was likely indigestion or a trapped gas pocket neither of which are new to me. I had a full blown panic attack while there. Now prior to this for a week or so I was noticing some dry throat and just kind of feeling weird in my mouth/throat.
I was relatively ok Saturday. However Sunday we had a round of huge storms which are a manager source of anxiety for me. That night I kept having the worst twitches in my calves, I decided to try and get some sleep. Upon laying down it felt like I had a sharp pain deep in my stomach, I panicked and the next thing I know it felt like there were worms crawling around under my back, my calves were twitching like nuts, etc. I didn't sleep until 5 AM.
Anyway needless to say it's been a rough few days, I've lost my job, and nearly my sanity. Though I have started on a medication.
I'm just so frightened of my symptoms.
* Twitches that I can see but not feel, I've found that both of my calves have been doing this for at least the past two days. I've also noticed this on my right tricep. On my calves at least I still have quite a few that I can feel as well, but the ones I can't feel seem to occur in the same spots.
* My tongue twitches, even at rest I can see it twitching as can my wife and mother. However interestingly my mothers tongue twitches at rest as well and I get mixed signals on whether this actually means anything.
* Twitches in my throat. Really scary sensation that one.
* Transient pains, I will get little flare ups of sharpish or dullish aches and pains. Pains and slight tightness that starts if I move a limb. The odd pinched feeling in my elbows from time to time. I'm afraid these pains are cramps and I'm just not realizing it.
* Random muscle soreness
* My throat feels mucousy and I feel like I need to clear it. My mouth stays dry and cottony as does my throat. I nearly always feel like I have something at the back of my throat or tongue. It feels like food goes down slow. I also feel like I have just a little bit of stuff in my upper chest and when I breath in very deep or exhale hard there is a small sharp pain near my collar bone right under my throat.
* I feel myself catching on words, and feeling like certain sounds are off. Not constantly but some. No one else seems to notice.
* My calves go off nearly constantly.
* My right knee constantly feels stiff as does that leg, and that leg happens to the be sight of a large amount of my twitches. Sometimes when I put weight on it for something as I release the weight it's like it wants to let go a little slowly.
* I have been having tingling sensations in my hands and feet some. Sometimes when I go to sleep my right hand will feel off, get tingling and cold. Earlier today my right felt weird and cold at the foot.
* Been really sweaty the past few days.
* An odd vibrating sensation inside my chest, throat, and hands. When I bend down or exert any muscle it shakes. My hands shake/tremor as well.
* Feels like my left eye is off somehow. When I shift my eyes I swear it seems just a bit off catching up and sometimes it's blurry.
* oh and from time to time one of my knees will sort of "buckle". My mom and grandmother do this as well though.
Honestly the resting tongue twitches and the constant twitches that are seen but not felt are the scariest. As the fact that my right leg has been occasionally doing that thing where it's stiff letting go of weight going back perhaps two months.
I'm really terrified at this point. Truly scared that I have something serious. No one believes me. I went to the doctor about it but we didn't really go into depth and he just put me on some anti-anxiety meds. I have had bouts of stuff like this for nearly 4 years now but I've never been to a neuro and my last clinical was toward the beginning of all this though it was clean.
If someone would be kind enough to talk to me about this I would really appreciate it. The folks here have been so wonderful in the past when I've been at low. I've been having episodes where I notice a "symptom" and break out in a cold sweat and shake and cry.
