Hi all,
This is my first ever post for a forum of any sort so we'll see where this takes me. I'm now 30 and have been suffering from health anxiety for 8 years. It first started out being scared of contracting HIV in college. Countless screenings and trips to the doctor all the while driving myself crazy that I DO HAVE IT and to find out I'm as clean as a whistle. I was able to control my anxiety by refraining from sex or at the very least be very careful (protection).
Fast forward to today and I've established a new concern that I cannot control, neurological diseases. It was a Friday about a year ago when i read about Multiple Sclerosis and went on about my day. Two days later while i was at the gym I felt a sharp pain in my bicep (bicep curls) felt almost like a nerve, it wasn't muscle or tendons.. didn't think much of it and within a few hours i started to panic and began symptoms such as slight pins and needles in finger tips, forearm and shoulder muscle tightness/pain, the bottom of my foot was tingling. Most of the symptoms have subsided with many trips to doctors giving complete blood panels, multiple trips to neuro's, MS specialists etc. I thought i might have ALS because i began twitching.. EMG stated normal.
I still have pains throughout my body, like sometimes my muscle will fatigue rapidly much faster than i'm accustom to. But my left arm/hand/wrist have given me problems since the beginning of all this. Muscle pain, tightness, aches, shaking in hands and arm, joint pain.. you name it i have it in my left arm. My neuro conducted a NCS/EMG and said i have slight carpal tunnel from a repetitive stress injury, makes sense i guess my injury from the gym has never fully healed. I see an orthopedic to tomorrow to figure out exactly what's going on and hope he orders an MRI.
I guess what i'm trying to say is any little change in my body trigger immediate panic/anxiety. Does anyone have similar symptoms (muscle pain, twitching, shaking, joint pain/ache, stiffness)?
This is my first ever post for a forum of any sort so we'll see where this takes me. I'm now 30 and have been suffering from health anxiety for 8 years. It first started out being scared of contracting HIV in college. Countless screenings and trips to the doctor all the while driving myself crazy that I DO HAVE IT and to find out I'm as clean as a whistle. I was able to control my anxiety by refraining from sex or at the very least be very careful (protection).
Fast forward to today and I've established a new concern that I cannot control, neurological diseases. It was a Friday about a year ago when i read about Multiple Sclerosis and went on about my day. Two days later while i was at the gym I felt a sharp pain in my bicep (bicep curls) felt almost like a nerve, it wasn't muscle or tendons.. didn't think much of it and within a few hours i started to panic and began symptoms such as slight pins and needles in finger tips, forearm and shoulder muscle tightness/pain, the bottom of my foot was tingling. Most of the symptoms have subsided with many trips to doctors giving complete blood panels, multiple trips to neuro's, MS specialists etc. I thought i might have ALS because i began twitching.. EMG stated normal.
I still have pains throughout my body, like sometimes my muscle will fatigue rapidly much faster than i'm accustom to. But my left arm/hand/wrist have given me problems since the beginning of all this. Muscle pain, tightness, aches, shaking in hands and arm, joint pain.. you name it i have it in my left arm. My neuro conducted a NCS/EMG and said i have slight carpal tunnel from a repetitive stress injury, makes sense i guess my injury from the gym has never fully healed. I see an orthopedic to tomorrow to figure out exactly what's going on and hope he orders an MRI.
I guess what i'm trying to say is any little change in my body trigger immediate panic/anxiety. Does anyone have similar symptoms (muscle pain, twitching, shaking, joint pain/ache, stiffness)?
