Hi all I'm struggling to understand how anxiety can cause pain in my arms & right calf muscle. It plagues me every day. I understand that our bodies go into fight or flight mode & we give off unnecessary addreneline but why do I get the pains. It really grinds me down & I loose sleep through it.
Anyone else suffering with this.
Please help.
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Hi
Oh aches & pains where don't I get them !
I totally understand your fear & wondering how anxiety could cause this but it does !
Best explanation I was ever given that seemed to sink in my brain & make sense was when a doctor told me to imagine all the nerves we have running through are bodies
Then picture these as spaghetti & the more anxious we are the spaghetti gets tangled & knotted pulling tighter & tighter & as something because tighter what would it cause
Immediately I came out with pain , it made sense to me & that's how I think of it now , not sure if it will make any sense to you what I am trying to describe but every time I get these pains I do imagine spaghetti getting all knotted up & pulling tighter
Yes that does make sense do you find it picks on certain areas of the body like in my case it's mainly my right calf muscle & my right arm. I'm thinking blood clots., stroke arrrrrrrr.
You know where I'm coming from .
Thanks again whywhy for your support. Take care xx
Yes I have had certain pains & sensations in the same place
I had a feeling in my leg the other day , straight away my head said whats this & I could feel the head diagnosing itself , I am good at that , then I remembered I had had it before & it had gone again , so I ignored it & it passed
I suppose you have mentioned this to your GP ?
I know it can be a tough one when it worries you but if they have said its anxiety we are not concerned then we have to start to trust them , took me years to accept they know better than me , but don't get me wrong I still have to work on believing them at times
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