I have an anxiety disorder 8 years now. I have new symptoms with unexplained nerve pain in arms/clawing hands?
I was diagnosed with generalized anxiety disorder and panic disorder with agoraphobia 6 years ago. I am disabled due to this, I worry constantly about everything in life. the past year I’ve began to develop uncontrolled twitching in my arms, my arms will begin to jerk and my hands claw up at times. It is usualy just something that happens at all times, usually when Im feeling sorta relaxed. It’s not all the time but about 10 times a day where I clench my neck muscles under my jaw and my entire arms tighten at the same time and my hand goes into a claw for about 3 seconds at a time…I feel a wierd tickly sensation in my neck when I do this, or sometimes I’ll just sit there and my arm will flale to my side in a nervous movement. The past year I’ve also developed severe nerve pain in my arms and weakness in my arms and legs, this happens in cycles…I’ll get it every 2 months roughly, (about every 6 to 8 weeks) It’ll come on abruptly, sudden nerve pain and weakness feeling like I am going to collapse, it comes in waves for and entire week. Again it hits me every 6 to 8 weeks and lasts for a week and during that week, I hurt to the bone, my nerves feel like they are on fire and it comes in really horrible waves. I’ll be ok one minute then next minute I feel a rush of energy hit me and I begin to get horrible pain in both forearm and bicep muscles and terrible pain that runs from them into my hands…I even hurt at times between my bones in my hands…its vague pain…its hard to describe but its like a deep tissue nerve pain..it’ll hit usually my arms and legs at the same exact time, sometimes just my arms, but its always both arms at the same time..its never just one side or the other, always both left and right side, and the pain is in my shoulders in my trap muscle area and goes down to the muscles around my collar bone and across my back just below my shoulders…I went to my doctor he says it must be anxiety related but he is puzzled…he said people that are suffering disabling anxiety seem to suffer from a broad range of physical ailments…nobody is quite the same, everyone has their own type of pains and he said in the medical profession they call it semantics… he said its basically imagined pain if that makes sense…he said he didnt want to sound ignorant about it but its basically the heavy load of stress in my mind making my body react this way and me not being on any sort of any anxiety medicine (due to my fear of medicines) is making me worse…..I just want to get some other opinions out there…I am scared because this pain I experience is freaking me out and makes me feel like im going to die. It’s brutal and I don’t know what to do about it..I want to take medicine but am scared to death of meds yet am scared to continue living this hell I live…thanks alot for reading…it is much appreciated…
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Tags: 6 years, arms and legs, bicep, bones, collar bone, deep tissue, exact time, forearm, generalized anxiety disorder, horrible pain, neck muscles, nerve pain, nerves, panic disorder, rush, sensation, shoulders, waves
I’m 19 and have had anxiety disorder since I was 11. In the beginning, I would lose the ability to walk–my whole body would go numb, and I couldn’t even talk. Then I had seizure-like episodes that weren’t fun. Sometimes I’d wake up in the middle of the night with adrenaline surges through my wrists. I haven’t been myself for a long time. But I’m working on it.
I think first you need to try therapy and meds. Anxiety, as hard as it is to believe and as ridiculous as it sounds, can make you feel like something is horribly wrong with you — whether you’re consciously anxious or not. However, if the combination of therapy and meds doesn’t get rid of your pain, then you should definitely see a doctor. I hate when doctors automatically stop listening to a patient when they find out they have a history of anxiety. Get your thyroid thoroughly checked–TSH, Free T3, Free T4, and antibodies…when a thyroid is out of whack, it gives some people a case of the crazies.
And I have to say something related to what Eve (the answerer above me) said: What worked and didn’t work for her means nothing. Everybody is DIFFERENT. Don’t say "no" to something just because it didn’t work for another person. Pay attention to yourself and YOUR needs. Keep other people’s experiences in mind, but don’t let it necessarily influence how you treat YOUR problems.
Feel better soon
You need to get professional help. There are plenty of medications that could help you as well as therapy. There is no need to live life this way.
I really think you need to see a doctor. It could be something serious.
You need a new doctor, really… this sounds more serious than anxiety, and they get it wrong alot… please ask for a referral to a neurologist and ask for an MRI of the brain..You should also have your neck and back MRI’d for injury…..insist on these…. this could be multiple sclerosis, autoimmune, or something … you need a new doctor, find an internal medicine specialist that listens to you…
Once they think it is ‘mental’, they tend to stop looking for the right answers….insist on more tests…
I would also insist on a complete hormonal panel done, including thyroid, (ideal range between .3 and 2, remember that and ask and get copies), sex,adrenal, cortisol levels…
Also, ask for a glucose tolerance test for diabetes, and see if they will test for deficient minerals,etc.
See if you can see an allergist, and get tested for food, chemical and other allergies…
Fire your currant, ignorant, doctor, or insist that he/she helps you properly….. that is ridiculous response from them.. you can tell them others think it is , too…..
Hey, I truly understand how you feel…
The "impending doom" feeling and the fight-or-flight response. I’ve been there. I’m an ex-victim.
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