Slight Twitches, Neck Pain, Swallowing Anxiety

[RockSolidGuy89]

ok i am still getting slightly more twitches in lip, jaws, neck etci had neck pain also but i think that was because of a new pillow which was quite hardhad concerns about swallowing a few weeks ago but i never choked, i think i was just obsessing over it, however just had a quick swig of wine there and it felt like it was threatening to enter the nasal cavity area - i have post-nasal drip but i was a bit freaked out that it felt like the wine might be going out the nose - is that indicative of anything sinister - hate when new stuff like this happens or maybe i am just obsessing over stuff that is of no consequence - anyone had this or similar?

 

[Gracer]

I had that FEELING last wintertime - but because at the same time I was getting a hell of pills and had to drink extra water 8 times a day, I soon discovered it was only a FEELING and my throat in fact was working properly. nasal drip often palys such tricks I think.At the same time i had some strange issues with the tears coming out of my nose without infact crying, just because of cold weather (one-sided effect) )) Because in fact anatomically tear channels open into nose, it was not strange, but i never had that before and was also scared )) I tell that just to say how strange issues we can note being obsessed.We note every single somatic issue but never can understand how high is our stress.

 

[RockSolidGuy89]

yes yulia i believe that it was just more somatisation related to post-nasal drip, i have been chugging glasses of water with no problems since but of course now I have noticed another new issue - i have a kind of sore right at the back of my teeth on the right side in the cheek area and i can feel slight discomfort there, i seem to have nipped my cheek a little, i am not sure if it's the tooth or tmj or just some stupid little sore that I am paying too much attention toi have had canker sores before but i never really had serious issues in the past with tongue or cheek biting and now i feel like i am starting on that road with some cheek biting - i hope it is all just more anxiety and ocd type behaviour but it is getting so so tiring focusing on all this new stuffi keep telling myself that i have health anxiety, ocd, long history of bodywide twitching, clean emg etcbut then another part of me says that just because you have all that stuff doesn't mean you will never get bulbar - and the occassional twitching in lips, jaws, chin etc is a constant reminderpfffffff this is mentally exhausting at times....now i know i am going to spend an indefinite amount of time just waiting for the moment i bite my cheek again.......and will be focusing on that no doubt until another issue comes along

 

[Gracer]

you'd probably laugh but I have sore cheek right now (and a sore throat too). I often actually have small leisons inside the mouth. I am not sure if it is herpes or staphylococci infection (I have enough of both in my body) but it is very painful and lasts for three days or so. I have that every few weeks recurring in different locations for almost all my conscious life ))You may try to make a negotiations with your own fear. yes you may have bulbat onset of ALS once (less that 1: 100 000 chance) - who knows the future - BUT THIS IS NOT IT. Try to come to reality, not probe reality - if something bad would happen, you'd be warned sooner or later in quite a solid and undoubtful manner(I think that when I do not see my daughter in Skype for day or two ). Same goes for health, apocalypsis and any other fears we might have. One of the founders of modern humanistic phychology (not sure if it was Mr. Yalom or Mr. Perlz) said - 'live here and now is a best thing you can do". So try to live not in some possible future where you may have dreadful onset of deradful disease (and may not, and there are much more chances that you will not have it), but here and now in the actual day where you have some minor stomatitis due to cold weather it is a hard way. For now it took me 4 yars of speaking therapy to be able to let my daughter go far away and only have some bad thought if I can not see her for a few days... 4 years ago I would probably go crazy only thinking about separation )) and maybe did not let her pursue her dream. I had and have severe bouts of separation anxiety (really severe), I had to cope with somatic troubles, I suffer a lot thinking about the fact that my anxiety is inherent and therefore never could be cured fully...but I live a good fruitful life and finally I am alive and there are positive changes even in my anxiety -and that is a precious gift, such life.So you can do it too with your own life ) and I wish you that strongly.