LemonBar
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Hi all,
I'm a 32 year old female with a history of anxiety and insomnia that I've been taking ssri's for for over 10 years.
A couple months ago I was holding something and all of a sudden it dropped from my hand. I thought nothing of it. More recently, over the past few weeks, I've noticed an odd muscle jerk in my arm when at rest. Again, I have gotten muscle twitches before, usually when going through a bout of sleeplessness, so I wasn't concerned, even though this seemed different, and I am sleeping fine at the moment. Over the past 2 or so weeks, I've noticed my arms have become weaker. I recently suffered a very early miscarraige and was getting bloodwork done frequently to check hormone levels, so I associated the weakness with that, even though ive gotten bloodwork before and it hasnt felt this way for days after. Now, over the past few days, I'm experiencing twitching all over my body, my hands tremble, my fingers feel stiff and its more difficult to hold a pen and even scratch my dog. My left hand pinky and ring finger are tingling like pins and needles. For a few days my right arm and then my left arm have felt strange, like they ache, and i feel like i have to move them, but that has gone away and now they just feel weak. My hands are also ice cold (I should mention that I have primary mild Raynauds disease and have had this since I was 15. Also have a shortened 5th metacarpal on my left hand, subclinical hypothyroidism, and b12 levels in the 200's).
The weakness and twitching are freaking me out the most. I'm terrified something is really wrong. For a few days I convinced myself that maybe the technician drawing my blood went through the vein and its causing an issue with my ulnar nerve, but that wouldnt explain the twitching, and even though I've had blood draws from both arms, the chances of that happening on both arms seems low.
Can anyone provide any insight? Do i sound paranoid and off base? Please help!
Thank you so much for reading.
I'm a 32 year old female with a history of anxiety and insomnia that I've been taking ssri's for for over 10 years.
A couple months ago I was holding something and all of a sudden it dropped from my hand. I thought nothing of it. More recently, over the past few weeks, I've noticed an odd muscle jerk in my arm when at rest. Again, I have gotten muscle twitches before, usually when going through a bout of sleeplessness, so I wasn't concerned, even though this seemed different, and I am sleeping fine at the moment. Over the past 2 or so weeks, I've noticed my arms have become weaker. I recently suffered a very early miscarraige and was getting bloodwork done frequently to check hormone levels, so I associated the weakness with that, even though ive gotten bloodwork before and it hasnt felt this way for days after. Now, over the past few days, I'm experiencing twitching all over my body, my hands tremble, my fingers feel stiff and its more difficult to hold a pen and even scratch my dog. My left hand pinky and ring finger are tingling like pins and needles. For a few days my right arm and then my left arm have felt strange, like they ache, and i feel like i have to move them, but that has gone away and now they just feel weak. My hands are also ice cold (I should mention that I have primary mild Raynauds disease and have had this since I was 15. Also have a shortened 5th metacarpal on my left hand, subclinical hypothyroidism, and b12 levels in the 200's).
The weakness and twitching are freaking me out the most. I'm terrified something is really wrong. For a few days I convinced myself that maybe the technician drawing my blood went through the vein and its causing an issue with my ulnar nerve, but that wouldnt explain the twitching, and even though I've had blood draws from both arms, the chances of that happening on both arms seems low.
Can anyone provide any insight? Do i sound paranoid and off base? Please help!
Thank you so much for reading.