I'm scared and I need some reassurance that I'm not going to have a seizure.

I don't have a history of seizures in my family and I've never had one but for some reason it's my biggest fear and I'm convinced I'm going to have one. I think a lot of it has to do with the symptoms of anxiety I have.

-trembling (sometimes pretty violent)

-brain fog 24/7

-derealisation

-muscle cramping and pain that makes me feel like.. tight? it's like an intense stiffness. and i can't move very well when it happens

-weird taste in mouth

-tongue tingling

-head tingling

-neck pain

-DIZZINESS ALWAYS

-burping (lol this is a weird one but when my anxiety is high i burp like crazy)

So yeah, when these symptoms are bad I think I'm going to have a seizure, because it seems like what the beginning of a seizure would feel like? I've had blood tests, an EKG, and EEG and a CAT scan, AND a blood pressure test. Doctors tell me it's all anxiety. Xanax makes most of the symptoms go away but I don't want to have to rely on it forever and they keep upping the dose. I'm in therapy and everything but nothing helps me shake this thought. It's not fair that I have to live in constant fear and always be in pain/be sick and people without anxiety can just go about their day. It makes me so mad. I can't even remember what that feels like.

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I'm also scared that the xanax will make me have a seizure or the constant stress will because I've read that both of these things can cause seizures... :c

[samy4]

Yeah I know what you mean ,I have suffered with anxiety and panicattacks for 14 years and my husband and my Daughter think it's a big joke between them with my symptoms, I feel like no one else goes through this a the time and think I'm the only one but you are not alone .but until you've been through it people don't understand.

[calmdown]

Relax! If you never had a seizure in your childhood or early teens, you are out of the vacinity, consider yourself lucky you weren't born with it.

All the symptoms are in your head and no thinking about having one won't cause it.

At this point, the only 6 way to trigger a seizure are: 1.Drug overdose, 2. Fatal head trauma, 3. An infection (example brain eating amoeba), 4. Severe sleep deprivation (I'm talking about more than 11 days), 5. Diabetic seizures eighter from extreme low or high blood sugar levels, 6. Extreme water hydration/dehydration.

So do yourself a favor and refocus your attention on being healthy, excercise, get right amount of sleep etc. Don't throw you retirement money on expensive scans that will show you normal brain waves.

[harleypaige43]

Same with me, i feel like its something seriously wrong with me. I am scared that it is, i have horrible anxiety but no anxiety attacks in a month because i started paxil... But I have bad floaters, flashes, headaches, stomach aches, dizzy, lightheaded, ALWAYS sleepy, depression, and all the things that you said. I am only 17 and I'm so tired of it

[amandapinner in reply to harleypaige43]

Same here! This crap sucks!!

[Moonmommy10]

I have anxiety and fear too. Also afraid of heart attack and stroke and aneurysm. Thank you for finally explaining to me that it is not a thing you just get.

[HopingCat]

I think it might be the derealization making you think these things. I am suffering from Dp/dr and I'm always thinking the worse. Also my symptoms are more mental but when I had this when I was a teen I obsseses about physical syntomons BADLY. So I really don't know what's worse. Obsessions over mental or physical. You are going to be ok and you are not going to have a seizure.

[Anxiety77]

I know this was 3 years ago but omg! I found this online and I am going hthrough this right now!!! I have horrible anxiety and rls it makes me think I’m going to have a seizure how did you overcome this thought!!!

[Catgirl246 in reply to Anxiety77]

OMFG SAMEEEE I HATE IT SO MUXH , i cant seem to live normally bc im always thinking ill have one, (ill be 20 in exactly a month)