Anxiety or something else?

[Pleasehelp120]

I'm a 23year old male who has been recently dealing with a virus scare that everyone has told me is not actually happening but I'm finding it hard to come to terms with it. All my symptoms apparently are unrelated to this virus. I have been getting frequent muscle twitches and weird feelings in my nerves in my right leg and across my back I also have muscle twitches quite frequently. I have even been feeling sharp pains around my occipital nerve and basically people have been telling me that this is an anxiety issue and that I am
Stressing out way too much about the whole thing. Does anyone have any idea whether this will help me, I have changed a lot as a person from the kid who used to tell a whole lot of jokes and make people smile. I used to be someone that always told people to not stress about the small things and to go out and be happy about everything else life has to offer but I am really struggling to come to terms with this. I have not been diagnosed with this yet but if you look up the name ddylan26 on here it seems we have had exactly the same issues with him saying the same thing, people just say it is anxiety. Please help me

[Paxiled]

People frequently come onto this forum asking if they have anxiety.  This puzzles me, as a long-time anxiety sufferer, because when you suffer from anxiety you know it.  Remember, this is primarily an emotional condition usually with no known cause when it's chronic and with no known biological cause.  If the only thing you're experiencing is something physiological, such as twitches, but you're not frightened irrationally to the point of panic or obsessiveness, then it's not anxiety.  It can be stress -- everyone feels stress, including people with anxiety, it's a part of life, sometimes it gets difficult or seems difficult and that's stressful -- but if you're not feeling anxious, it's very unlikely anxiety is the problem.  If you are feeling anxious, then you have anxiety.  As the first answer tells you, neither you nor any of us can diagnose what's bothering you other than to offer possibilities -- for example, a lack of Vitamin D or magnesium can cause these symptoms, but we have no idea whether you suffer from this or other possible reasons or not.  You most probably tweaked something.  But if you find yourself obsessing over such things then you very well might in that case be developing an anxiety problem, because that's how anxious people operate.  Before we suffered chronic anxiety, we either ignored these things or did something about them, but we didn't sit and stew endlessly over them.    

[specialmom]

I am thinking about your post paxiled.  I know many who have physical symptoms because of anxiety but those same symptoms are also of other conditions.  That can be confusing. So, when I read questions about whether someone has anxiety or not, I always think they have a physical concern and they wonder if it is anxiety as the root cause or something like a heart issue, cancer, etc.  I have a bit of health anxiety.  I had a high blood pressure reading and it freaked me out.  With pregnancy hypertension, I was told I was a candidate for future high blood pressure.  I swear . . .  I would then feel my heart racing, pounding, have chest pains.  I was anxious about THAT and I'm sure that compounded it.  I felt every little ache and twinge and then become more nervous it was the heart getting ready to blow!  So, a reasonable question I could ask my doctor is if it is anxiety or am I on the verge of a major cardiac event?  It turned out to be anxiety!  (so far).  People know they are nervous, worried, stressed and anxious ---  but is that the reason they are feeling and experiencing all that they are? 
And there are an awful lot of people that may not know what anxiety feels like.  They get a chest burning, can't sleep and have read about this thing called anxiety . . .  is this it?  They want confirmation.  I think this is another reason people ask so much. Since symptoms of anxiety are so varied from person to person, heck, from episode to episode within the same person--  it can be confusing to figure out.  So, I do get why people ask.
And unfortunately, anxiety is something some can just not admit to.  They can not get past their disorder to know that they are unaccepting of any rational answer to their symptom they are concerned about (been told by x number of doctors is not X (feared disease) and yet they refuse to believe it.  No evidence makes them feel better so they keep ruminating, fixating, obsessing.  When treatment for anxiety could help them move past it.  
My 2 worthless cents on the subject!  :>))

[Paxiled]

Yeah, I agree with you, Mom.  But in every instance you mentioned you said you felt anxious.  I think most of us built up to chronic anxiety slowly without realizing it, but when it became chronic, we knew it.  We were having panic attacks while doing things we'd done often before without any problem.  So there's that just to help people know if they have anxiety -- do you feel anxious?  Do you have anxious thoughts?  etc.  The reason I emphasize this is that anxious people get all the same physical problems everyone else does, so the fact we're anxious does not in any way mean we don't have a real physical problem.  Because study after study and our own experience show, if we're normal, is that most doctors aren't very good at their jobs in the US.  They don't see patients long enough to properly diagnose them, as they're so anxious themselves to get on to the next patient to maximize their income.  Because medical education in the US is largely written or paid for by the pharmaceutical industry.  It's really easy for a doctor to tell you nothing is wrong, it's anxiety, when they don't do enough to learn if that's true or not.  There are many instances on here of people who are clearly fine but obsessing but there are also clearly instances on here of people who have good reason to feel something isn't right and their doctors aren't listening.  Giving a pill for anxiety is so much easier.  Because of this, we can't really tell most people here that just because their doctor said they were fine they're fine -- neither we nor their doctors really know if that's the case, but you have to move on.  If it gets worse, it becomes easier for doctors to make the diagnosis.  But it makes sense to me to tell anyone asking if it's anxiety to look inside and see if they're thinking anxious thoughts.  If they're not, it's just not likely to be some subconscious anxiety causing the problem.  Not impossible, but dangerous to assume.  In that case, the person better get a better doctor.  That's my point, Mom.  

[AnxiousNoMore]

Self diagnosis is highly likely to be incorrect since you have no medical training. If concerned about your health, see your doctor for a diagnosis. Many people have an itch here, a twitch there and an ouch that can happen at any time and there is nothing wrong with them, so likely you are ok too.