painful tingling and muscle spasms: Anxiety?

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For all of my life I have experienced muscle twitches. They happened a lot when I was little, and seem to happen when I have caffiene or when I am anxious. They control a lot of my life, and affect falling asleep, what position I sit in, and make me extremely irritable. More recently, like about five years ago, I began to have painful tingling in my arms, but almost never both at the same time. It sometimes was in my legs too, and right now I have the painful tingling in my left lower leg, ankle and foot. Origninally, after eliminating carpal tunnel and some other things, I thought it was from anxiety, which I have mildly. But now I'm not so sure, and I was wondering if anyone could help me because no doctor that I've visited (which is many) seems to know what is wrong with me. I am 18 years old, just finished high school, live in Minnesota, have mild asthma, am very sensetive (like skin, eyes, etc.) and have an allergy to amoxicillin and cats. I don't know if that helps or not, but I'd really appreciate any help I can get.

eschneider91 · Answer

I looked up the symptoms of low blood sugar, and I do seem to have a lot of them. I frequently feel nauseous, and very tired even after 8 hours of sleep for many days in a row. And I do have a little anxiety, and of course jitters and twitches sometimes. I also have noticed sometimes my heart beats louder and more rapidly. A few months ago, I was so tired, and I felt like I needed to eat something really sugary or I would pass out. So I had some ice cream, and I felt a lot better but only for about a half hour. Does this have anything to do with low blood sugar? I also went through a period about a month long where I felt super light-headed and dizzy, and my blood pressure was pretty low (my mother has high blood pressure so we have a blood pressure machine at home). I normallly have low blood pressure, but it was a little bit lower than normal. For a while I thought I did have hypoglycemia, but that phase somewhat went away, and now it's only every now and then that I feel some of these symptoms. Sorry if this is a lot and confusing...any thoughts? My nausea could be caused from my brith control as I had to switch to the one I'm using now because the estrogen in the other one made me nauseated all the time.

anuragsrivastava · Answer

Hi, Thank you for your question. Yes, Tremors or twitches could be associated with fatigue, stress, anxiety or a form of panic attack. Other possible causes of tremors could be overactive thyroid, Parkinsonism disease, alcohol use, certain medications, alkalosis, and low blood sugar. Sometimes previous injury may cause pinched nerve and may be a reason of tremor but this possibility remains low. Therefore, it is quite essential to thoroughly assess the all possibilities here with the help of a doctor. Hope this helps.