Tingling

[Amw311]

Hello again, I’m clearly in the thick of a bad bout of anxiety, seeing as I posted here the other day about colon cancer and today it is something completely new.
I’ve been having a mild tingling on the right side of my face/jaw for about a week now...it’s not a painful tingling sensation, nor is it even incredibly irritating but it’s just subtly there and that really scares me. Of course the only thing that sticks out in my mind is this sentence I read, “MS can often present early as tingling in the face.” I’ve read thousands of other things but this is all my mind goes back to. I think it worries me because my anxiety has never presented itself in this way, so in my head “this could not be My anxiety”.
Anyone ever had a symptom like this?

 

[triceps]

Hi again Amw. Tingling anywhere on the body is a very common anxiety-induced symptom. Health anxiety is horrible as it skews your thinking and with the internet you can always find evidence to support that thinking. I'm sure you're absolutely fine and when your anxiety level settles down, so will your symptoms.

 

[Mandyhiero]

Yes! I have it! On and off in the right lower part of my face. Around my chin and my lip. It’s extremly annoying and I’m the same as you. I don’t know how this is just my anxiety. I keep telling myself that it’s not, and that it’s somthibg like cancer causing this because that’s what google says. Ugh! This anxiety stuff is for the birds! If that’s truly what it is.

 

[Gws1018]

I know it’s hard to resist googling symptoms but one thing i found helps is, for example, if You have tingling in the face, google “tingling anxiety”. If i get a lot of results with the two being related then I stop looking into it. Like right now I’m having headaches but I know if i were to just google headaches, I would convince myself I had cancer or a bleed or an anyeurism and I would be down the rabbit hole. Trust me, I’ve had the same thing happen go me with MS/ALS because of muscle twitching and trembling.

 

[Mandyhiero]

That’s great advice, Gws1018! My problem is that if it says it’s a 99% chance that it’s anxiety and 1% chance that it could be cancer, I’m afraid I would stlll believe it was cancer. Even though I know how dumb that is, I always jump to the worst case scenario for myself.

 

[RobbyH]

I don't get the tingling but I do get skin pokes all over - not really itching but more like a stick or pin is poking in my skin. I can either ignore it or lightly rub it and it goes away. I notice it is worse when I am overly anxious about something. My wife, who doesn't worry about anything in the world, says she getst hem but she ignores them (wish I had that ability). I, of course, have to worry it is something bad instezd of being related to anxiety

 

[Mandyhiero]

I will tell you all this, I had a brain MRI last year to rule out MS and it was negative. So that’s a plus. Of course in my health anxious mind, I think of a thousand other things it could be that may be worse!

 

[RobbyH]

Thats the sad thing about anxiety - deep down inside you know it isn't really anything bad 99% of the time but your mind won't let you focus on the 99% but instead on the 1% chance.