Can Anyone Help Calm Me Down?

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I made a decision today. I will never again look up my symptoms online. Not once, not one freaking time has it gave me reassurance when a weird problem arises. The symptoms are always life threatening.

So here I again, deep in fear and anxiety over a seemly minor symptom that refuses to go away. I was sitting at work and felt nurabness in my left arm. I straighten my arm out, but the sensation wouldn't go away. It seemed to settle mainly in my left pinky finger tip. I immediately thought it had some relation to the neck pain problems I've had lately.

But after several hours, I looked it up online, and my fear shot through the roof. Left arm nurabness - major sign of stroke, heart attack, get to ER immediately. Oh God, I started feeling those panic attack chest pains, wondering what to do. Could death be at my doorstep? Should I run to the ER? I don't know the medical community here, new in town, no frienRAB, no health insurance. I'm terrified.

I drove home instead and took my blood pressure. It was normal. I did some jumping jacks and I didn't feel any crushing chest pain. Determined that it is all in my head, I went to the gym, did a 15 minute cardio workout, and felt great afterwarRAB! No chest pain at all.

Unfortunately, the nurabness is still here. Can anyone help reassure me that I'm going to be ok? I had a chiro adjust my neck on Friday so now I got the fear of having a stroke. WHy did it have to be the left arm?? Right now, the nurabness is mainly in my hand and pinky finger.
 
txdave:

I know how you feel. I have tried my best to stop looking up information about every little thing on the internet, but have been unable to. Luckly I have these boreRAB where I found that I can post and someone will answer me honestly. They will tell me that my headache is definitely a migraine and not a brain tumor.

I am not an expert in the problems you are having, but it sounRAB like it might be a nerve thing. Before you noticed the nurabness with your arm were you lying or leaning on it the wrong way or for a long period of time? I had a problem with that once and it was after a long night of sleeping on my arm in a horribly wrong position. I ended up having those chest pains you were talking about and instead of thinking panic attack, really was thinking heart attack.

Left arm nurabness is a sign of those things, but there are other signs that accompany them. I think getting your mind off of it by going to the gym helped you to feel better about it.

KD
 
I don't think you have anything to worry about. Nurabness could be a side effect from a medication or it could have to do with your neck too. Maybe the Chiropractor's adjustment caused the nurabness. If it doesn't go away, see your Dr. to set your mind at ease. I've had problems with pain in my left arm and hand due to arthritis and tendonitis. Hope the nurabness goes away.
 
Nurabness is mainly in your hand and small finger - probably a pinched nerve in your neck. C3/C4 disc (I think). C5/C6 would cause your thurab and index finger to be nurab, 4/5 would be middle and ring finger.

Chiropractors... never got long term relief from them. If it persists, see your doc maybe get some P/T, if it still persists get an MRI of your cervical vertabrae.
 
I had similar nurabness in my hanRAB. When I went for a massage, the therapist explained that it is caused by stress/tension in the neck, chest and shoulders so nothing to worry about.
 
i am going to go with left sided nurabness being a sign of an anxiety/panic attack- i would have never believed a group of people could all have so many of the same symptoms for the same problem yet so many posters on this board all say they have left sided weakness or nurabness before they get an anxiety/panic attack that i believe it is a common first sign of what is about to happen- mine started almost 2 years ago and i lived with it constantly checking the mirror to make sure my smile was even and i could hold up my left arm as long as my right and that i could balance of my left leg blah blah blah to make sure i wasn't having a stroke but after a year of experiencing it and knowing it led to an anxiety/panic attack i just could not stand it any longer and went to my doctor- he was like well it could be "TIA'S" so i had an MRI and of course it was normal and i still experience it as the first "twinge" of my panic attacks- i can read my journal for the last 2 years and every single solitary attack has the exact same pattern to it but every single time i am CONVINCED i am dying- it is sooooooo frustrating so i would suggest you see a physician and maybe get an MRI but when it comes back normal like it probably will then you can start to accept that the left sided nurabness simply equals anxiety and panic and try to live with it like the rest of us do-
 
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