Riley20
03-31-2014, 11:38 AM
Hi everyone,
I've had bad anxiety for about a year now, for a few months it seemed to settle down so I came off the medication.
Then about five weeks ago I started getting pains down my side and into one of my arms so much so that I couldn't move my arm. Two doctors diagnosed me with having done some nerve damage and said it would clear up. The pains then started to progress and went all through my back, neck, other arm and my chest. I went back to the doctors and he was quite confused because if it was nerve damage it wouldn't be in my chest as it is completely different nerves, I had some blood tests done to rule out anything arthritic and they came back clear.
The dr suggested two weeks ago that it could be due to my anxiety and so put me on medication that acts as a muscle relaxant and the pains have calmed down a lot.
In the past few days I've gone back to work and realised I'm very anxious and I feel as though I'm sliding back to how I felt when my anxiety was really bad.
Has anybody else experienced pains like this? Maybe some kind of unconscious reaction to my anxiety getting worse without me realising?
I've had bad anxiety for about a year now, for a few months it seemed to settle down so I came off the medication.
Then about five weeks ago I started getting pains down my side and into one of my arms so much so that I couldn't move my arm. Two doctors diagnosed me with having done some nerve damage and said it would clear up. The pains then started to progress and went all through my back, neck, other arm and my chest. I went back to the doctors and he was quite confused because if it was nerve damage it wouldn't be in my chest as it is completely different nerves, I had some blood tests done to rule out anything arthritic and they came back clear.
The dr suggested two weeks ago that it could be due to my anxiety and so put me on medication that acts as a muscle relaxant and the pains have calmed down a lot.
In the past few days I've gone back to work and realised I'm very anxious and I feel as though I'm sliding back to how I felt when my anxiety was really bad.
Has anybody else experienced pains like this? Maybe some kind of unconscious reaction to my anxiety getting worse without me realising?