Burning sensation in legs/body.. Anxiety?

[hockeycrazy3033]

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.

[joebot]

I experience the same symptoms.  I started having panic attacks/anxiety around a month ago after going 20 years without (I'm 47).  My doctor (primary) put me on Citalopram (Celexa), and after 3 days I had to stop after suffering every side effect including horrible insomnia.  It's been over 2 weeks since stopping the drug, and I still have insomnia.  In fact, I feel like I've lost the ability to sleep.  My body is tired, but I just can't transition to sleep.  But I must fall asleep at some point, because I'll remember a dream.  I took a nap today and it felt like my body was asleep but my brain was quite active.  Yesterday I felt the closest I did to feeling normal, and I was confident that my sleep would be better last night, but it was worse.  I'm in the process of seeking therapy, but according to intake personnel it could take a month.  I don't know how much longer I can put up with this.  I'm wondering if I'm experiencing the "paradoxical effect" or SSRI's, where serotonin in the brain is decreased instead of increased.  Apparently that messes up your whole system, and may be irreversible.  I mean, I've never been the most optimistic person even before the panic, but I have sunk to the very bottom of the well.

[E_reagin]

Symptoms
__________
Burning and tingling of the skin
Sleepy but can't sleep
Weakness terribly
Can't breath
disoriented
Vision blurry not able to focus rainbow vision once
Scared of everything
Tension
Lose is apatite
Very jerky
Like my body and brain are not connected
Shooting pains even in my head very emotional
Easily agitated and annoyed
Dizzy and off balance at times

I feel like I am going crazy...

[nandrews]

I suffer from the same thing,,,burning from head to toe...especially in my legs and especially when i'm sitting down....and not one doctor in the past year can figure out why so they just tell me its anxiety...i'm sick of spending so much money to go to the doctors to be told its anxiety and every med they give me seems to make me feel worse....its horrible...

[nandrews]

I just want you to know i'm going through the same thing....i hurt all the time...my legs burn my arms will tingle my chest gets tight sometimes i feel like i can't breathe...i've been to sooo many doctors over and over and been through soooo many test its unreal and they all say your fine your just anxious....they throw meds at me, i take them and it doesn't seem to help, i'm always thinking there something seriously wrong with me....so i'm in the same boat girl...i just left today and was told yet again that i'm anxious and i'm thinking, ya i'm anxious because theres something wrong and you wont find out what it is....ugggggg

[jassi507]

hy name jasmine i just got on zolof but its horrible just called my doc, woke up with horrible burningt in my head nd zaps i dontknow what it is scared me to death, top ofit then i keep getting anxiety attacks so extreme burning in my head goes down to my stomach arms and legs,, did u had those sympoms as well on zolof will they go away ??? im scared to continue taking them.my email is ***@****. Thank you

[Bluebunny3]

Hello. My name is Marty.  I have been suffering from burning inside out, head to toe, spasms in the soles of my feet, burning under my nails, hands and feet - severe neck pain - tingling in my toes extreme fatigue for no reason - aching, hurting feet with burning where there are days I cannot walk or drive at all!  When I lay down at night the muscle spasms begin in the soles of my feet.  The burning happens any time of the day even especially when I am sitting still.  I have had panic attacks for over 35 years and have been on Valium since then.  This burning began four years ago out of the blue.  Please contact me at ***@**** so we can talk further.