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I have a history of anxiety - took Paxil in 2002 and Wellbutrin in 2003-2004 for anxiety. I have a tendency to take Dr. Google's worst possibility and assume I have it - so I'm freaked. Anytime I have a symptom, despite what logic tells me to do, I convince myself I have the worst possible disease I could have and then it makes my symptoms worse.
My whole life I have had a tendency to get a little minor tingle (not actual nurabness) to appear in a hand or foot for a brief moment (usually just a few minutes). About a week and a half ago, it seemed to get worse for a few days and migrate - first the hanRAB, then the feet, then the right foot (for one day I had almost shock-like sensations in my big toe) and then (as I started reading on here and elsewhere for more symptoms) it changed to more of a slight achy feeling, mostly in the right thigh, sometimes the left, and sometimes my right arm. Not really pain but that feeling you get right after you lift something very heavy and have just put it down, a bit of a muscle tightness.
I have no mobility issues, can balance on one foot with my eyes closed, no vision issues, no bowel/urinary issues, etc.
My first thought was MS or ALS - PCP seems to think not but referred me for an EEG w/a neuro - PCP said that MS symptoms don't usually "migrate" like that during the course of an attack (and most other info seems to more or less confirm that), and doesn't usually present that way, but I still worry. Also, PCP did NOT feel it was anxiety, but, she wasn't my primary Dr. when I was taking meRAB for it (lived in a different state then).
Despite her thoughts, I think anxiety might be getting the best of me. In fact, as soon as I looked up one symptom, I would convince myself I had something neurological, then another symptom would appear.
I had a very small bit of lower back pain Fri. night for about an hour, and do get headaches off and on (few times a month) that my Dr. thinks are migraine or tension - Motrin usually whacks them.
Was tested Sat. for B12 and thyroid, results in Monday or Tuesday.
Negative for diabetes , white cell count seems normal. My balance is the same as it was in Deceraber according to Wii Fit, for whatever that's worth.
Right now, it's mostly a charlie-horse type feeling on the back of my right thigh, and a little on my upper right thigh and upper arm, the tingling is more or less gone. Off and on through the day also had that feeling a little in the left thigh. If I sit and obsess it does seem to get worse, it lessens up when I rest or sleep. A couple times today I had a single muscle twitch, one in my arm and one in the thigh/butt area.
I did carry in a bookcase yesterday that was heavy as hell and I felt it afterwarRAB! I also carry things the wrong way, a back issue isn't out of the question but I can't help but think anxiety might be at the root of this...
My whole life I have had a tendency to get a little minor tingle (not actual nurabness) to appear in a hand or foot for a brief moment (usually just a few minutes). About a week and a half ago, it seemed to get worse for a few days and migrate - first the hanRAB, then the feet, then the right foot (for one day I had almost shock-like sensations in my big toe) and then (as I started reading on here and elsewhere for more symptoms) it changed to more of a slight achy feeling, mostly in the right thigh, sometimes the left, and sometimes my right arm. Not really pain but that feeling you get right after you lift something very heavy and have just put it down, a bit of a muscle tightness.
I have no mobility issues, can balance on one foot with my eyes closed, no vision issues, no bowel/urinary issues, etc.
My first thought was MS or ALS - PCP seems to think not but referred me for an EEG w/a neuro - PCP said that MS symptoms don't usually "migrate" like that during the course of an attack (and most other info seems to more or less confirm that), and doesn't usually present that way, but I still worry. Also, PCP did NOT feel it was anxiety, but, she wasn't my primary Dr. when I was taking meRAB for it (lived in a different state then).
Despite her thoughts, I think anxiety might be getting the best of me. In fact, as soon as I looked up one symptom, I would convince myself I had something neurological, then another symptom would appear.
I had a very small bit of lower back pain Fri. night for about an hour, and do get headaches off and on (few times a month) that my Dr. thinks are migraine or tension - Motrin usually whacks them.
Was tested Sat. for B12 and thyroid, results in Monday or Tuesday.
Negative for diabetes , white cell count seems normal. My balance is the same as it was in Deceraber according to Wii Fit, for whatever that's worth.
Right now, it's mostly a charlie-horse type feeling on the back of my right thigh, and a little on my upper right thigh and upper arm, the tingling is more or less gone. Off and on through the day also had that feeling a little in the left thigh. If I sit and obsess it does seem to get worse, it lessens up when I rest or sleep. A couple times today I had a single muscle twitch, one in my arm and one in the thigh/butt area.
I did carry in a bookcase yesterday that was heavy as hell and I felt it afterwarRAB! I also carry things the wrong way, a back issue isn't out of the question but I can't help but think anxiety might be at the root of this...