Anxiety or ??

Every time I'm under enormous stress I get weird feelings in my left side of the body. Face, neck, arm, hand,leg and foot.  Then night panic attacks start. That was 4-1/2 years ago. All symptoms took at least 8 months to disapear. Testing was done and all negative. I have been under much stress in the past few months, its all back again. I get pins and needles in left side when I wake up, gets better during the day but never goes completely away.  Start thinking about it and mouth goes dry, start trembling, now I have twitching thumbs, have lost my ap petite and panic attacks at night again.  Of course scared that it is MS or tumor.  Could anxiety symptoms last all the time and for that long even after stressors are gone?  I know that they have same symptoms of MS.  Last time I never woke up every morning with the pins and needles in the left side.  That is how this round of anxiety started. (or is it really something else and then anxiety started because of it.)  My doctor, who I saw last week said since all testing was ok last time, sounds like anxiety.  I am seeing a phychiatrist soon.  Does this sound like MS or is it typical of anxiety?  If my mind will get put at ease, I would definitely feel better.

[Roger Gould, M.D.]

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