Tremor/ Fasciculations Sensations Freaking Me Out.

This really freaks me out!!! Truly; I have had this since all this crap! Kicked off. When I am sitting at traffic lights in my car I get this feeling of my whole body trembling only very slightly. It is tremor/ fasciculations. My neck is the worse, it feels like I cannot turn my head, a whole body tension.It's also like that sensation when you are at the top of a fairground ride, about to fall , that feeling inside your stomach that radiates outwards. It frightens me lots! When this happens I stop breathing because I am so tense, which makes it worse. I can also feels the vibration of the engine.This kind of confuses the feedback that I am getting. Sometimes I have even turned the engine off to reduce whatever this is. It has got so bad at times I have felt like I have just got to get out of the car regardless of the traffic because I feel like I am going to have a full blown panic attack. When the lights change and the car is moving again this *beep* weird sensation goes. What the hell is it?????????????Regards Martin

Don't know what it is but perhaps you could learn relaxation techniques (breathing exercises) to help you quell the panic attack?

Thanks for that advise, I do that already. I practice Mindfulness techniques. I have countless CDs and literature on relaxation. I have even run groups on managing anxiety. I am a metal health worker. But I have not come across anyone else with this weird stuff except on this forum. I am not convinced they all have the same condition either. Some members have had this stuff for years others a few months, how can this be? Not because they are 100 times more anxious, that's ridiculous? I have seen what anxiety can do to people more than most. It cannot last for years because a process of 'habitation; occurs in any situation, anxiety always reduces whatever you do to help yourself but obviously helping yourself will improve recovery. Those who have had this condition the longest have something different than those who have something similar for a few months.If it's a few months then that is probably more related to anxiety.It is my opinion and it is based on considerable working knowledge of what anxiety can do. BFS or whatever you call it, is not about anxiety, otherwise I would have seen it in the thousands of people I have seen over the past 20 years working in mental health. God sakes!! I have even asked lots of professionals also working in the field of mental health, have they seen this as a symptomatic presentation of anxiety and the answer has been no. Saying that I believe anxiety can add to a generally feeling of being unwell with this stuff. I also believe it can cause anxiety but only that way around for most people. I believe the anxiety is the panic response to distressing symptoms for most people with this condition, I believe it triggers the fight/flight hormone response of anxiety on a biological level. My opinion.Regards Martin

I agree with you Martin... Right now my left leg is shaking (internal tremor? or super fast twitching? who knows!) and I'm not particularly stressed. "Anxiety" is the cheap answer we receive from people (read: doctors) who just don't know what we have. I remember reading a paper about panic attacks... I can't remember the name of the guy who wrote it... but anyway, basically he was saying that most of the doctors who tell us we have panic attacks (after we describe to them our symptoms) don't know (or care) what we have in reality... and he also said that our so called panic attacks were in fact most of the time related to some very real health problems (not necessarily easy to find)...

I also think that many people with this condition are HYPER aware of what is going on with their bodies. Things that they maybe did not pay soo much attention to are focused and at the forefront. So perhaps you are feeling for any odd sensations and when you have one you ratchet in your attention and completely obsess about it. An other thing I believe is that when I am at my most physically active I barely notice the symptoms at all. So maybe what everyone should do is get off the cpu and do something like take some long walks or exercise.