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The tingling is very much a response to anxiety. Its your fight or flight response. I know this for a fact as I had it 20 years ago and assumed it was some rare autoimmune disease. Your blood vessels constrict and then release and the blood flow gives you that tingly feeling

I get checked every 6 months because of my basal cell carcinoma. It is best to get checked by a dermatologist and then based on what they see, they can determine a baseline for the timeline of future visits. Mine and my co-workers skin cancer was removed by a Moh's surgeon. My Moh's surgeon is very well known and respected. Skin cancer is no joke. I remember going into the surgeons office and while I was talking to him, I asked him to look at some other spots and he said they all looked OK. I then apologized to him for maybe being paranoid about asking him to look over the other spots. What he said in response to me I will never forget for the rest of my life. He said to me, your not being paranoid at all. In fact being a little paranoid is good as it may one day save your life.

I’m glad you are on the mend!! Totally sucks being young and worrying about this kinda stuff but just need to push forward and hopefully will feel better soon! Thank you so much for the response! ☺️ This site is so helpful

I'm only 18 and had a massive ALS scare recently that I've just finally been recovering from in the past week or two. This has been my first (and hopefully last) bout of anxiety--EVER--so I totally understand your predicament. It's like this health anxiety just popped up out of nowhere! I hope you can get some peace of mind and start doing better soon!

I too have these symptoms. Same as your location feet and calves. Have been off and on for three years. Been tested up the wazu. All tests are normal. My doctor diagnosed anxiety. It gets worse when my anxiety increases.

Thank you so much for your reply! It really does help knowing others go through the same thing and that I’m not entirely crazy! Lol I just started buspirone this morning so hopefully that will help me! Once again I really appreciate you taking time to answer me! Our minds really tend to run away with us and I’m not sure why it’s so hard to believe doctors when they are the ones who know.

Yep. Sure do. I have recurring twitching and pins and needles. Sticks around for weeks sometimes before going away for a while. The big thing to remember with anxiety and stress both is that just because you don’t feel stressed or anxious now doesn’t mean you can’t have symptoms. Sometimes they come after you experience the stress. Also, you’re human... so sometimes this stuff happens for no known reason. Rest assured that MANY people in here have the same fears and symptoms. If you have had specialists look at you and they say you’re fine... then you are. Many of us haven’t even gone that far and we’re also fine. Try to ignore symptoms or do things to abate them. Working out, healthy eating, lots of water, plenty of sleep, etc. You got this.

We are not being judgmental. When you get answers and advice here but continually post for reassurance it is anxiety that is your problem, not an eye/brain issue. Seeking reassurance again and again does not help one get over the health anxiety, it makes it worse and then you continue to seek reassurance more and more. Get an eye exam and then seek help for your anxiety.

All breasts are lumpy to some degree. Breasts are made up of different sacs, glands tissues. Some women have more dense tissue than others, it’s quite common. If you find a lump that you are sure hasn’t been there before then you may want to get it checked out, but even then it could be nothing. Breast lumps are quite often harmless, but it doesn’t hurt to get them looked at just in case.

I can understand. I'm sorry. Tonight got a little bit better. I let go of a fear of death. We are all gonna die someday. But in a way I won't die. My body will, but I will not. My soul will live on. It's kinda helped me some.

You aren't bothering anyone but this forum is also a place to take advice from people. Unfortunately, you haven't done that yet. What have you done to help your anxiety today? Did you go for a long walk? Did you read a book? Journal, meditate? Research how to help anxiety? You will not get better sitting around taking your temp a hundred times a day. That's toxic behavior. Sometimes tough love is needed. We want to see you get better and you even promised yourself when you were at the e.r. you would let this go and you have gotten worse. Not physically worse but anxiety worse.

So far I have taken Teva, Solco, and Actavis and haven't noticed anything. I still don't want to change again and I call several pharmacies to find Actavis since that is what I am taking now but they were all fine. You will be fine on the Solco, I took it for 3 months, maybe 6 and it was good. Ivy

Sadly, I don't think it matters. Till Rachel wants to listen, it'll be like talking to a brick wall.

I hear you and I'm sorry you have to deal with this. My anxiety gets worse when I'm under stress, and this sounds like the worst kind of stress imaginable. I hope she goes back where she came from soon. As for nodular melanoma, probably not. Nodular melanoma is rare, and only a tiny percent of those rare nodular melanomas aren't black.

Dude, chill. I wish all I was worried about was cum on my face lmao... you’re not pregnant.

I'm sorry you are having a difficult time right now. I can totally empathize with you...completely empathize. My mom is a good mom...truly she is. I was very lucky in many respects to have her as a mother. But she can also be very volatile, very demanding, very mean, very demeaning, very self-involved, very....difficult. Yet, I love her immensely and still seek her approval. She is elderly and facing all sorts of medical issues...and that's making her meaner, accusatory, confrontational etc...etc...etc... Like you my household is very calm. Though I'm an anxious person I actually don't sweat the incidental stuff in life (other than health stuff). Like if a bed isn't made it doesn't freak me out and cause massive chaos and world war 57...or if the dvr failed to record my favorite tv show I don't become inconsolable. Fortunately for me, my mom doesn't live with us. Instead, I have a sibling that lives with my mom. I don't think...no I know...there is no way I could remain sane and live with my mother. I applaud you for having her live with you for a whole month. You are amazing and a good daughter. Anyhow, my mom's ongoing health issues have turned up her hysterical and often times mean behavior recently and my HA has gone wacko. For me, I think turning to an old familiar fear is somehow an escape. And guess what else? I recently started freaking out about a dermatofibroma as well...like for real. Like I haven't even posted on here about it. I've had it on my arm for years now. It looks just like a dermatofibroma except it kinda has 2 centers but the centers are side by side. I've had more than one doctor check it....and not just any doctor either...like the two most respected doctors in my community for skin issues and specifically skin cancer. Like people from near and far come to either one of these 2 doctors for their diagnosis and treatment and they both said the same thing..."dermatofibroma, leave it alone the scar will be worse" Yet, I'm still obsessing about it.... I think I'm obsessing because it's easier to think about that than the mean words that my mom has said to me lately or her attitude or facing her failing health and the fact that I love her in spite of herself and don't want to lose her ever. I think waiting for any biopsy result is nerve wracking. The good news is is that it's definitely not melanoma...the doctor wouldn't have said so and a dermatofibroma just doesn't look like melanoma if you're fair skinned especially and from your pic you look like me, super fair. I bet your doctor is just being super careful and that's always a good thing. Remember, no news is good news AND you can always call your doctors' office to get the results sooner. Finally, under all of the circumstances, I'd say you sound really rational and are doing remarkably well. I suspect that once you get the all clear test results back and since your mom is visiting someone else right now...in due time, your anxiety will lessen and all will go back to "normal" Look, I'm just a fellow patient trying to get by in life. I know nothing. I'm just some chick on the internet...but I think, at least for me, that I'll always be predisposed to anxiety...like it will always be lurking in the background ready to come out and "flare up" during times of crisis. The crisis...in this case perhaps was your mother visiting and her behavior. I can't take discord and screaming and histrionics. I can't I can't even watch it on tv. I'm too sensitive to it. So if you spent the last month in the midst of that...well, girl...no wonder. I hope I've helped. Please keep us posted on your test results, your mom, and your anxiety etc...

From my understanding, diabetic neuropathy isn't like your foot falling asleep. It's severe pain that can keep you from sleeping in the first place! If you experience true numbness (as in, literally can't feel anything) talk to your doctor, but pins and needles is usually just one of those things.

I’m sure most of us “twitchers” have searched the internet for countless hours reasearching anything and everything that may be the cause of our symptoms. I just stumbled upon the BFS site again and figured I would share the link. http://forum-bfs.com/information Again, I’m sure most of us have stumbled upon it, but it does have a lot of great information. It may be a good read seeing all the recent posts regarding muscle twitching and ALS fears. It’s truly is amazing how many of us there are out there. Muscle twitching is no doubt very common. It makes you wonder how many more people there are that twitch, but don’t take any action or think anything of it. Their twitches go where ours may linger for a time due to us being hyper aware, honed in to our bodies, and super stressed over these symptoms. No doubt I think that if most of us spent the same amount of time and energy focusing on our own mental health and anxiety that we do about worrying and researching RARE, horrible diseases, we would be far better off.