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Burning sensation in legs/body.. Anxiety?

This past summer I went to the ER twice in a matter of days as I had a fast heart rate, numbness, dizzyness, etc.. They ran a bunch of tests on me and found everything to be normal. I've been to the doctors since then and they've taken tubes of blood and tests came back normal as well. I've also been to a cardiologist twice in the last month because I constantly worried about my heart thinking it was WAY too fast at 100-120 beats per minute. That's when at rest to! They did an ultra sound, ekg, holter monitor..etc and found everything was normal. My doctor then told me he thinks it's my nervous personality/anxiety that is getting my heart rate up and keeping me paranoid..etc. I mean it seriously is the most uncomforable feeling in the world. I'm ALWAYS paranoid that I've got some illness. I'm constantly looking up symptoms online and when I find one I automatically think I have a problem..then I get scared and my heart starts to race..etc.
Lately I've had this fear of diabetes! First I had the fear of cancer, but now it's diabetes. im  always so paranoid and just because I have frequent urination Im all worried thinking I have it. And to top it off I've had burning sensations in my legs today for no apparent reason. It just feels like sunburn and I look at it and it's not scratcher or anything! Then I go back and think OMG this could be a sign of diabetes..so of course I get freaked out all over again.
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i sometimes feel like im going to pass out, like when you lock your knees when you sing or play an insturment, but withouy the fuzziness and its short, but it does include the feeling like youv been embarrised the tingly burning feeling, and i feel like im going to pass out, is this a sign of anxeity?
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I have the same problem , does getting dizzy even tho I have anxiety attacks does it nescerry means I have virdgo ? Im so scared and it feels as if this issue is taking over me. Please help im only 19
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The comment regarding "Sounds like parasites to me" seems more feasible and would explain a lot of things, regarding my suspicions.
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Hey, I have been having panic disorder since I was seventeen. I'm OK for a few months, then they get worse. I really don't understand how they can get worse. I get so scared my lips swell out to where I can See them. I get hives all over. The newest thing is I get sharp pains in my chest, so I pop another aspirin hoping it will keep me from dying. A few weeks ago I had a bad one where my neck and all my back was tingling I was freaking out. They never go away. they just suck more. I keep telling my doctor( I hope your right and its just anxiety) because I feel like Im dying. I also have eight children and I feel bad because they know, and when the anxiety gets bad anyone can tell. My children come to me and say mom its ok it will be gone soon. really, really they need to come up with better meds for this, because I have been on alll of them. Also be careful with any of these meds, they act different in different people. me, I cant take Pazil it makes me angry and zoloft also. I take celexa, klonipin, and wellbutrin . We had to work hard to get the meds I needed
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what did you take?, what you wrote here is exactly what i experienced, and the worst is i can't go out alone..
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No prozac isn't addictive although you can't come off it quickly. You need to gradually tail it off over several weeks.

I've started back on 20mg. I think it's starting to work a bit.

Last night I had a new symptoms that I'd never had before. My body was burning up. I thought it might have been a fever but I wasn't sweating. Was horrible. I could get comfortable in bed. I'd get too hot under the duvet and then get too cold out of it. Today I feel a bit flu-y.

You have to be careful with drinking alcohol with prozac. Last weekend I drunk quite a bit and it seemed to affect me a lot more than usual. It can make you even louder than you would be normally.
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