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Is this anxiety or something else?

Hello, I'm a 21 year old female. A few years back, I suffered to panic attack. I thought I was having a heart attack but I wasn't.  I also have depression.

Anyway,  here's the pain thing. Sometimes I'll have this cold and tiggly feeling in my left arm, legs and chest. It keeps me from going to sleep. Also, one day I was in a restraunt and my stomach and some of my body for cold. I don't know what it was , but I thought I was going to fall over , but I dont. When I'm in the car sometimes, I alwsys have that odd sensation in my chest.

This isn't a sigh of a stroke is it? This had been going on for a while. I told my family doctor and don't think they said anything about it
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I do tend to think and worry about alot of stuff, but mainly if I'm about to have a stroke when I get that tingly cold feeling in my body. I know it may not be a stroke, but still I just get worried. Sometimes those strange feelings effect my sleep to

As for depression, it comes and go. The doctor  diagnosed for depression when I was 16. Mainly because of unhappiness,  but I do take medicine for it
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If it is just unhappiness, then the solution is to get happy although maybe that isn't easy so my simplification might not be possible. What are you unhappy about because at 21 you are now way past 16 when diagnosed so is it something that is a permanent problem? What medication are you taking?

As far as analyzing your stroke fear, here is your chance of dying from stroke at age 21. Looks like it might belong in category 9 (circulatory diseases) but if so they don't even list that one , just diabetes mellitus. So it appears that you are focusing on a cause of death that barely exists at your age.
http://www.cdc.gov/injury/wisqars/pdf/10LCID_All_Deaths_By_Age_Group_2010-a.pdf
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Anxiety sufferers over-analyze their body looking for clues to health problems. In your case you are worried that a stroke may have happened, however if your doc thinks nothing happened then it was just too much concentration on a little chill, tingle, dizziness etc. Everyone gets these things all the time too, but they ignore them because they know they have nothing wrong and continue with their busy lives.
If you accept your doc's diagnosis then you will be able to forget them and not notice them whenever they occur, which is what you used to do before your concerns popped up about stroke.
btw, anxiety and depression are a vicious circle feeding off each other and intensifying the issue. If you just had one panic attack and years ago, then it seems you have the situation somewhat under control but need to accept that there is no stroke issue in order to possibly deliver a knockout punch to Mr. Anxiety.

Also the depression needs to be dealt with - Do you have a clinical diagnosis of it, because if not it could just be unhappiness? What depresses you and is stroke the only thing you are anxious about?

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If you had that many strokes you would have some permanent signs like slurred speech, partial or full paralysis to name a few. Likely even one would make a permanent physical dent but I am not a stroke expert, however everyone I know who had one showed visible problems afterward..
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