It's definitely pretty common. I get this when I'm stressed about something. I started getting it in my twenties and now when I get it it can last for a few hours or a few days.
Temple twitching
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A while back the part between my index finger and thumb was twitching on my right hand. I'm not exaggerating when I say it often twitched so hard I'd drop what I was holding. It lasted three or four weeks, every day.
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I'm just so fed up of new things cropping up, it's exhausting. Feel like the second my anxiety starts to feel better, something different happens.
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The problem isn't the sensations, it's your reaction to the sensations. It's perfectly normal to experience aches, pains, twitching, heart rhythm abnormalities (e.g. palpitations), seemingly random bruises, lumps, bumps, reactive lymph nodes, diarrhea or constipation, blurry vision, dizziness, headaches, perceived weakness, perceived shortness of breath, sense of doom, a general uneasy feeling - and the list goes on and on.
As anxiety sufferers, we have a heightened awareness of those normal sensations. That heightened awareness is a clinically recognized symptom of an anxiety disorder. Continuing to focus on the inevitable sensations does nothing to help us. Instead, we have to learn to focus on changing our reaction to them. That's the only way to get better. Acceptance, basically.
As anxiety sufferers, we have a heightened awareness of those normal sensations. That heightened awareness is a clinically recognized symptom of an anxiety disorder. Continuing to focus on the inevitable sensations does nothing to help us. Instead, we have to learn to focus on changing our reaction to them. That's the only way to get better. Acceptance, basically.
Anxiety stirs up nerve endings. I got sensations of something crawling under the skin on my cheeks and many other sensations, including what you have described. Now that I am in recovery, I notice that a lot of this has stopped, and when I do get any anxiety sensations, I examine it mentally, and let it go.