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Tingling and weird sensations from anxiety?

Does anyone here have tingling and other weird sensory symptoms on a daily basis?  Mine has been here for 6 years, but it seems that they are getting worse.  I find it hard to believe that people can have these weird sensations from anxiety alone.  I have had a brain MRI and c-spine MRI, the only thing that showed was a bulging disk.  Anyone else have this?
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I love you all! No, really. Your posts gave me so much relief that I am not alone. Or crazy.  I just have anxiety, as many other here and have to deal with it. I have symptoms EXACTLY as few of you described above.

Started one day when I did damage to my body - it was hell hot day, i drank lot of coffee, stress and then workout hard with weights at 5pm, when it was still hot and didn't turn aricon. Soon my breathing was heavy and started feeling out of breath and dizzy. Didn't stop for 2 hours and i gone to emergency thinking its heart-attack or stroke (Thanks God it wasn't, waiting 2 hours, hehehe). Well after this 'episode' i started thinking how i could die from heart attacked alone at home and no-one would know (my wife coming home at 9pm that evening). Started thinking me about all illness i could have and all terrible things that could happen to me. In the next few weeks I felt so tired, muscle pain, dizzy, stop all exercise (bad mistake!). I still work at computer, so my back started hurting from hours sitting and no activity - and all this deepen my anxiety. I gone to see doctor, check my heart, everything and conclusion was anxiety. I got Erispan and Xanax. But I refused to take them. Any. Ever. I want to fight it.

Now after 2 months I am totally convinced its only anxiety. Still sometime hit me heavy and I feel as my neck muscle are very tight, I start sweating and panic. But usually I take run outside - go for walk and listen to podcasts with interesting people - what occupy my mind and fast walk make my body busy - so in about 30-40 min I am fine. Totally fine. I come back home and its all good. Sometime if its happen at the evening I figure out that just glass of red wine works well too. Give me a bit of relaxing and that is all I need. I don't drink alcohol normally, so one glass of wine make me tipsy :) And I drink lot of water too. And relaxed enough not to think about my anxiety. Also I started with pilates and gyrokinesis (good for posture). Exercising helps a lot. Sometime just 30 min of pilates take my tight muscles away. Totally. I am doing better now - hit me maybe only 2-3 times a week. Last week only once. This week twice. But I'll get back to once a week :)

So I refusing to take tablet. Fight. Talk to your body and say - hey, my body, lets fight this anxiety together. You and me, we can do it. So thanks all for sharing. I have the same. Anxiety. Make me panic, make my neck stiff, make my lips numb and sometime lightheaded. But I fight it. And I pray to God that you all will find your way to fight it too. Never give up. Fight it.
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are we supposed to get these symptoms even if we feel we are not feeling anxious???
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Thank you! Reading your comments has made me feel a lot better.

I recently had the tingling numb weird feeling on my face and thought it was a stroke; went to ER and nothing found in CTscan, preliminary blood work, chest xray and other tests they did. Saw a neurologist a few days ago and will have an MRI done next week and some blood work (vitamin B12 deficiency was discussed and I've started taking a multivitamin to supplement). I have been under a lot of stress and my primary had given me Xanax to take daily on as need basis; I don't think it is helping because I've taken daily now for 5 days. A friend suggested a psychologist that does hypnosis; apparently hypnosis helped eliminate the anxiety and panic attacks. I'll be looking into that as well. I'm not fond of medications and that may be a good alternative if it works.
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Just soooooo relieved. Somehow we tend to think we are the only ones in the world having these sensations hehe and then all kinds of horrible thoughts about terminal illnesses creep up.
Diagnosed with anxiety recently. The things that worried me were the tingling sensations (sometimes my lips), being dizzy, headaches that started recently and basically all of the above mentioned. I am on Serdep at the moment and it seems to be working.
I am also of the opinion that my smoking absolutely does not help so have set a date to stop on 8 July 2013!!!
Just wanted to say thank you for this forum. It helps to know you're not going crazy :-)
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a shuttering pulse is sent out from my brain that travels down my spine encompassing my whole body with a tingling feeling that leaves me completely numb and void of my surroundings-- when I think of living my life alone.
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Definitely. I actually had my first experience with the tingling a couple weeks ago, and it scared me so much that I went to the ER right away.
What happened was I was driving home from work when it started to happen, and I've already been having really bad chest pains, so I was afraid it had something to do with my heart. Not to mention, my heart rate started increasing as it was happening, and I was having trouble breathing. They ran tests on me and told me that, on top of the anxiety, I was dealing with heart palpitations and panic attacks, (which explains the increasing heart rate.) they just gave me a prescription and sent me on my way. It's completely normal, from what I understand.
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