Hello, I am fairly new here, so I'll start from the beginning. A couple of months ago I became ill with what felt like a cold, but maybe a bit worse. Weeks after I began noticing at work, near black friday in a high stress sales job that my hands would shake uncontrollable the more stressed I got. I went to the doctor, was told it was anxiety. Not a problem. A couple days later, my left leg began to feel like it was shaking from the inside, which I later learned to call an internal tremor. That feeling only happens when I am resting, and is pretty much non existent when I am working, so it wasn't a big deal. I scheduled an appointment with my doctor who mentioned essential tremor, and put me on Requip for shaking and some more anxiety medicine.(Buspar.) She also told me to come back in a month, which will be on the 20th of this month.More recently I began twitching, which was most noticable in my calf area - but also happened on my eyelide as well as my upper body a little less often. Before all of this I had been focused on Parkinsons and MS, which I am told is quite common. I also occasional experience pain behind my eyes, and feel as though my vision is becoming worse.(Though I am not sure of that.) And after the twitching I natually rolled upon ALS, which was significantly more frightnening for obvious reasons. I then began inspecting my body day in and day out, testing my strength to make sure nothing was lost. End result was I felt fine, but I did notice more muscle on my left leg(The non tremoring one) As opposed to my right, and a slight dimple on the bottom of my right foot. VERY slight. I feel no weakness of any sort. Much more recently the bottom of my right foot has occasionaly had bouts of twiching, and what feels like something is moving around inside it, which comes and goes and none of it is visible., and the leg tremors have almost completely stopped most of the time. Despite how many posts I read of everyone on this sight my first instinct is "Well, that's not EXACTLY like me." So I assume I could be completely different. I intend on asking my doctor to refer me to a neurologist this Friday. I am only 19 years old as of this coming Groundhogs day, and I have an extreme history of health anxiety. (I was convinced I had rabies for about a year after every headache, that is not a joke. I was genuinely scared I had rabies.) I am completely terrified at the thought of having this disease, and to the point where MS sounds like a blessing.(Which for anyone suffering from it, I know very good and well it is not. More so from a life expectancy point of view.) I am mainly here to hear other peoples thoughts on this issue and see if anyone has anything close to this, or if anyone has any idea on what it could potential be. I am expecting no diagnosis over the internet. I look forward to hearing your thoughts and suggestions.
New Here: Anxiety Symptoms?
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Hi j, ok based on what u wrote I would say u have zero chance of having any neuro nasty...you hit the nail on the head when u said u have health anxiety...don't worry about twitches, tremors or anything else...it's all anxiety and if u work on controlling that u will get better from this....please believe that u are ok....hugs shannon 
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)christinasgirl123
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I agree with Shanny 100% here. Hand tremors, internal vibrations, constant calf/foor arch twitches......this is just a very small in fine selection of the pleasures that BFS can bring. Here's my BFS world: . Want some freakin hand tremors? And this is what my doc says to all of this: See, this above is just "my" personal BFS world, apparently everyone gets his own mixture of symptoms. There's not a single thing suspicious about yoursymptoms. BTW, they said"No way ALS" when they saw my tremors, even before any clinical , because this is not at all a part of ALS early stages.
Hi jMy health anxiety started when I was 11, so I understand how that goes. Once the initial stressor hits the health anxiety cascades. Strong physical symptoms just make it so much harder to escape the stress loop, but do what you can with a doctors help.Is odd how the worst of it always comes after the stressor events, just when most people are reaping the rewards.Hang in there, my twitching and cramping in my calves is getting better. I find stretching and yoga to be helpful for mind and body.Rabies was a creative choice. Mine was male breast cancer. 
I appreciate all of your responses so quickly. In my defense, the rabies panic started AFTER a cat we've had for years gave me a love bite, if that matters. =P. That being said, I know numbers are on my side considering I am just turning 19, but it was hard for me to find strength in numbers when talking about something so tragic. I think this site along with this upcoming doctors appointments are what is going to get me through this without driving my girlfriend insane. I suppose my hands and legs tremoring are considered a good thing in the grand scheme of things. You've all been very helpful, and I intend to make this forum part of my internet cycle now, as it is incredibly helpful.
WindyCityGentleman
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Since you struggle with Anxiety for such a long time you know how nasty it can be on ours body, and what extremely weird symptoms can produce. Please relax, I have read many stories like your and it always was BFS.