Anxiety and BFS Troubles

[CanadianChick]

My anxiety is at an all time high this morning. This really sucks. In the past week, I have gone from a very happy and carefree person to someone who is an emotional wreck, can barely function and is getting depressed.Here are my latest symptoms and please reassure me if you recognize them as BFS:1- The random single twitches all over my body and my bad continuous eye twitch are almost gone.2- Since the pins and needles in my feet started a week ago, the twitching had been mostly on my feet arches, mostly on my left one.3- The feet twitches and pins and needles almost always happen when I am sitting or laying down.4- I ran 5K yesterday and except for tightness and soreness in my left butt cheek and back leg muscle, I felt fine.5- Foot twitching is significantly less pronounced when I am more relaxed (I had almost none when I laid down in bed last night) and more when I am very anxious (like right now).6- I had a couple of episodes of jerking when flling asleep on the weekend and one when I held a computer mouse. None since then.I am REALLY freaked out. Please reassure me. I HATE THIS!!!!

 

[katiemichelle]

The high anxiety is normal. I have been going through this for over a month and am a wreck still sometimes. Join the chat group. They helped me a lot.

 

[sparkrlock]

Check out what I just posted today, I would go over it all again but I was very long =) You have experienced everything I have and still have to this day. It's part of BFS/BCFS and can be really scary. I'm sorry you are dealing with this, but after a few months a LOT of the anxiety/symptoms will get better. You will have times that symptoms get worse then better then worse again, they will change and your anxiety will peak again. It's all part of BFS. There are people that have neuropathy with the pins and needles and numbness/twitching. But it's not ALS.

 

[DesertKnight]

Total BFS. You seriously sound just like I did. I'm in my eighth months and its on again, off again symptoms with little predictability. When you have more symptoms, you worry. When your symptoms change, you worry. When a new symptom appears, you worry. I've even worried when my symptoms stopped dead in their tracks for a day or two. Worry is the common component. Its not worrying that instigates these things, but worry certainly aggravates them and makes you unhealthy in general. When you're anxious you don't sleep enough, or too much. It effects your digestion, your respiration, your circulation. Anxiety ramps up pain signals. When this happens you get more and more symptoms which cause new worries and thus the cycle goes. BFS is manageable, but living with chronic anxiety is hell. Frances

 

[CanadianChick]

Thanks everyone!I can't manage this anxiety on my own. When I am going to my doctor's appointement tomorrow (to get the results of my blood work), I am asking for a prescription to deal with it.(The worst part is, no matter how many times I get reassured that I don't have ALS, I keep thinking that I do.)

 

[JohnnyRocket]

The bottom line is that you have no reason to believe your symptoms originate from anything other than benign causes. Yes, our symptoms are weird. Yes, weird feelings and twitches can cause anxiety. No, these symptoms will never and can never harm you.

 

[herty18]

When I read your post it seems that in some ways you have been getting better. You were able to run a 5k and only had minor stiffness and soreness. If many of the people on this site ran a 5k they would have body wide soreness and fatigue and would probably feel like they couldnt walk for a week! It also seems like some of your twitching is calming down? I know you hate this but give it time. I would like to share some advise my father gave me when I was feeling my worst. He said: "Mike in 2 years you and I will be sitting around laughing about this whole experience". I remember trying my best to take his advise to heart. I focused on getting better and not worrying about my health. He was basically saying that it would take time to get better, but that I would and there is nothing to worry about. Although I did not believe it at the time, 6 months later I know he was right. Maybe I'm not going to laugh about the whole thing but I am genuinly feeling better and moving on with my life. For you it will take time (maybe weeks, maybe months, maybe even years), but YOU WILL GET THERE TOO!