Generalized anxiety twitches

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Avatar n tn I am an 18 year old male and lately I have noticed that i get muscle twitches that will last a few minutes. I used to get the occasional twitch but now they happen almost on a regular basis. Also, I have noticed that my steadiness in my hands has gotten much worse to a point where I can barely hold a pen sometimes while other times i am perfectly fine. I always had steady hands and over the past year and a half i have noticed a decline in steadiness.
743150 tn?1232753462 The most likely cause for the generalized muscle twitching seems to be excessive anxiety due to the possible HIV infection. In ALS the initial symptoms include muscle weakness followed by muscle twitching and fasciculation which affects one group of muscles. Since you have generalized twitching ALS is not a possibility in your case. Make sure to maintain your fluid and electrolyte intake and do some deep breathing exercises to relax yourself. Take care!
Avatar m tn I was diagnosed with major depressive disorder and generalized anxiety disorder at the age of eight and have been treated using Zoloft and Lexapro in past years. I am eighteen years old. I would really like to clear this up before college starts in the fall. Any help would be much appreciated. I thank you for your time.
Avatar f tn You should also bring up your anxiety with your doctor. If they are addressing the twitches, they might as well address the anxiety. It's important to rule out any physical causes, but you need to address any psychological ones, too.
Avatar m tn The twitches can occur focally (one location) or generalized (many locations). Twitches can be related to anxiety/stress, caffeine, and often occur post exercise or muscular over-use. Another type of twitching, which is normal, is called a hypnic jerk. It occurs as we are falling asleep. Again it is exacerbated by stress or caffeine. For these symptoms, the best treatment is to reduce the caffeine intake and/or reduce the stress.
Avatar m tn Twitches in the majority of cases are benign meaning they have no consequence and do not cause serious damage or are resulting from serious damage. The twitches can occur focally (one location) or generalized (many locations). Twitches can be related to anxiety/stress, caffeine, and often occur post exercise or muscular over-use. Another type of twitching, which is normal, is called a hypnic jerk. It occurs as we are falling asleep. Again it is exacerbated by stress or caffeine.
Avatar m tn I have just had ended a period (3 weeks) of eyelids twitches (and all over twitches). Now, the tip of my tongue is twitching when at rest! I am not having difficulty speaking or swallowing, but the tip seems tingly and twitches when at rest? I'm scared to death. Please advise. Thanks so much.
Avatar f tn Lately, I have had muscle twitches, which are freaking me out. My upper eyelid twitches quite a bit, usually four or five twitches in a row, at least a couple of times an hour. Every once in a while, I will get twitches in my arms or legs, sometimes in my hand or foot, these are usually just one or two twitches lasting no more than a second. I am worried about ALS because of this. I have no family history of any neurological problems. I have an appt. with a neurologist on Monday.
1319752 tn?1274426091 This caffeine-induced anxiety disorder can take many forms, from generalized anxiety to panic attacks, obsessive-compulsive symptoms, or even phobic symptoms.
Avatar m tn I am 19 years old, male, and I have Generalized Anxiety Disorder and Panic Disorder. I have had anxiety and hypochondriasis throughout my life , but only recently have developed Panic Disorder. I have had tingling sensations , pains, twitches, many floaters and pinpoint flashes, pins and needles sensations, cotton mouth, dry eyes, and general fatigue for the past few days. I also have perceived vision loss during the night.
Avatar m tn But I get these random spasms usually in my arms or legs, and only when I'm sitting or laying down. I guess with all of the spotlight on former NFL/New Orleans Saints star Steven Gleason I've become so paranoid about ALS that it's driving my nerves up the wall and I always gravitate towards the worse possible scenario. I'm a relatively healthy ( I have Seborrheic Dermatitis) 34 yr old male.
671285 tn?1292660161 Not sure this is any consolation but I had lots of chest pains when I had a big anxiety problem a year ago. I saw the doc and she said it was muscles and tendons pulsing in my ribs. It scared me since it was on the left side, but the doc said a heart attack is a very hard pushing feeling as opposed to the sharp pain I had. It all went away with the panic, when my med kicked in.
Avatar m tn I´ve had muscle twitches comming and going. One time I had a quad muscle twitching for over 24 hours, but then it went away. Can ALS twitches come and go like this?
Avatar f tn I have a question. I was diagnosed years ago with Generalized Anxiety Disorder with Anxiety Attacks and Agoraphobia. I had a discussion tonight with a friend who keeps saying I do it to myself. I have had this along with a diagnosis of ADD as well as Bipolar 2 and then Clinical Depression. I was wondering if Anxiety is really something that can be controlled by the mind or if it really does need to be treated with medication?
1132574 tn?1271672466 Hi Everyone, I am new to the anxiety forum. Had a a few weeks of anxiety hit me in January when I was having medical testing done. I am 36 and have high blood pressure every time I see a doctor as I just get so nervous when I go to the doctor. They ran tests which freaked me out even more and wham, I was then anxiouss all the time. The tests eventually all came back normal. With that reassurance my anxiety vanished.& I was even able ot take my BP at home with no anxiety.
Avatar m tn I have a generalized anxiety disorder and a phobia of HIV and rabies. I went to get my blood work down and the nurse used a vacutainer to draw blood. However, the vacutainer holder was reused ( the nurse confirmed it is only the needle which is changed and not the holder as it does not come into contact with the patient) and now I think I will get HIV and I keep thinking about HIV until I get tested again at 3 months after the window period. luckily I have medicines however I hate this.
Avatar f tn Now you can call it anxiety, social anxiety, generalized anxiety...whatever but the reason why i have all these types of anxiety issues starts off not mental but physical. When I was of the age of 16 I remember I started getting twitches. I was pretty scared and the more I thought about it the more it spread through out my whole body. Having this problem has caused me so much emotional pain and frustration I can't even begin to explain all the mental problems I have now from this.
Avatar f tn And ever since Ive just been a big ball of nerves I guess, diagnosed with Generalized Anxiety Disorder, muscle pains, fatigue all that came with it. However about a month ago I noticed my appetite was depleting very quickly. And now I rarely eat, when I do its very small amounts. I use to eat EVERYTHING and now Im losing weight. Went from 132-122 in 2 months. muscle and joint pains almost 24/7 I m always tired.
Avatar f tn Or could the high levels of caffeine intake at the time have influenced it? I still feel this twitches, but not as dramatic as when they first started nor as alarming. I have recently been diagnosed with sinnusitis ( chronic) and am awaiting a specialist soon. Is it possible the sinnusitis brought on the twitching? As well as temple twitching I occasionall feel twitching in my legs, shoulder, chest ( not regularly, once or twice it has happened only) and in the buttox region.
Avatar f tn Yes, yes, and yes!! This is called GAD, generalized anxiety lingering in the background between attacks, very common!
Avatar f tn 6 months ago I started with leg pain in quadriceps, arches of feet with cramps and fasiculations of muscles of both arches(right greater than left). Also had calves tight and twitches. Also had bicep pain mainly right arm. The signs progressed to almost all leg muscles, shoulder, arm and hand muscles and had muscles twitches all over my body even my abdominal muscles and back muscles. Saw my internal medicine doctor who found no muscle weakness or Neuro signs.
Avatar m tn They could find nothing wrong with me and I was diagnosed with Generalized Anxiety Disorder and BFS. After some psychological visits and treatments with Zoloft I started to get better and mostly stopped believing that I had a neurological disease although I still had random twitching around my body sometimes. Recently while I was training for a triathlon I noticed I had an occasional extra heart beat.
Avatar m tn I have internal tremors, twitches, spasms, insomnia, numbness and etc. Even if I recover from anxiety, will these symptoms remain? Would like to hear a success story......
Avatar m tn I family doctor had me do an echocardiogram, stress test, ecg, thyroid test, and complete blood count. All the tests were normal and he concluded it was anxiety. Anyway here is my question. Today I was walking home from school (about a 5 miniute walk) and every few seconds i would get the flutter, but not any pain. I dodn't feel tired and was able to keep walking. I checked my pulse too, and it seemed normal to me. Once I got home the fluttering stoped.
391834 tn?1229342874 ve just started taking meds for my thyroid so hopefully my symptoms (fatigue and generalized felling of anxiety/nervousness) will be no more!