lukeypoo1412
10-01-2014, 03:24 PM
Hello I am a new member here. I have suffered from anxiety my whole life, although it has been usually been pretty minor. Recently, in the last six months I have really began to have horrible health anxiety. 6 months ago, I began to see floaters in my eyes, and I became convinced that I had lymphoma. More recently, I woke up one morning and I couldn't feel my right leg. The next few days after that I experienced numbness and tingling in my feet and hands, and became convinced that this time I had MS. I was tired all of the time, was constantly worried, couldn't sleep, and even got muscle twitches/spasms. I went to the neurologist, and he said I had probably gotten some sort of short-term auto immune flare up and was going to be okay. However, I insisted he check me out for MS so I had an MRI done of both my head and neck. A few days ago, I got the results and they turned out to be normal. All this time I was convinced I had something wrong with me and now it is tough for me to turn the page. I still experience some of the symptoms, especially when anxious, including the muscle spasms. Since it wasn't MS, I often find myself thinking it must be something even worse. It is affecting my daily life and i cannot focus in school. Just today, I got some sort of spasm that lasted a few seconds in my hand and it initiated an anxiety attack. I am having a huge difficulty moving on from this ordeal and believing I am okay, I am only 21.