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HUGE list of anxiety symptoms for those of us worried that it's "something else".

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Body (anxiety symptoms commonly associated with the body in general):

* Allergy problems, increase in allergies (number, sensitivity, reactions, lengthier reactions)

Back pain, stiffness, tension, pressure, soreness, spasms, immobility in the back or back muscles

* Blanching (looking pale, loss of color in the face or skin)

* Blushing, turning red, flushed face, flushed skin, blushing, red face or skin

* Body jolts, body zaps, electric jolt feeling in body, intense body tremor or “body shake”

* Body temperature increase or decrease, change in body temperature

* Burning skin, itchy, “crawly,” prickly or other skin sensations, skin sensitivity, numbness on the skin

* Burning skin sensation on the face, neck, ears, scalp, or shoulders

* Chest pain, chest tightness

* Choking

* Chronic Fatigue, exhaustion, super tired, worn out

* Clumsiness, feeling clumsy, co-ordination problems with the limbs or body

* Cold chills, feeling cold

* Craving sugar, sweets, chocolate, usual craving for sugar and sweets

* Difficulty speaking, moving mouth, talking, co-ordination problems with the mouth or tongue

* Dizziness, feeling lightheaded

* Dizzy, feeling dizzy

* Electric shock feeling, body zaps

* Excess of energy, you feel you can’t relax

* Falling sensation, feel like your are falling or dropping even though you aren’t

* Feel like you are going to pass out or faint

* Feeling cold or chilled

* Feel wrong, different, foreign, odd, or strange

* Flu-like symptoms, general malaise, feel ill, like you are coming down with a flu

* Flushed face, red face, flushed skin

* Head Zaps

* Heart palpitations, racing heart

* Hyperactivity, excess energy, nervous energy

* Increased or decreased sex drive

* Infection - increased infections, persistent infection

* Mouth or throat clicking or grating sound/noise when you move your mouth or jaw, such as when talking

* Muscles that vibrate, jitter, tremor, or shake when used

* Muscle twitching

* Nausea

* Nausea vomiting

* Neck, back, shoulder pain, tightness/stiffness

* Night sweats, waking up in a sweat, profusely sweating at night

* No energy, feeling lethargic, tired

* Numbness

* Numbness tingling, numbness and tingling

* Numbness and tingling, and other skin sensations on hands, feet, face, head, or any other places on the body

* Persistent muscle tension, stiffness

* Pounding heart, heart feels like it is beating too hard

* Pulsing or throbbing muscles. Pulsing or throbbing sensation.

* Rib or rib cage tightness, pressure, or feeling like a tight band around the rib cage

* Sexual Dysfunction, sexual uninterest

* Shooting pains, stabbing pains, and odd pressures in the neck, head, or face

* Shooting pains in the face

* Shooting pains in the scalp or head

* Skipped heart beats

* Sore or tight scalp or back of the neck

* Startle easily

* Sweating, uncontrollable profuse sweating

* The floor feels like it is moving either down or up for no reason

* Tightness in the ribs or rib cage area, may also feel like a tight band around the ribs or rib cage area.

* Tingling sensations, anywhere on the body, including the hands, feet, legs, arms, head, mouth, chest, groin area

* Throat or mouth clicking or grating sound/noise when you move your mouth or jaw, such as when talking

* TMJ

* Trembling or shaking

* Twitching

* Unsteadiness, dizziness, feeling dizzy or lightheaded

* Urgency to urinate, frequent urination, sudden urge to go to the washroom (similar to urinary tract or prostate infection symptoms)

* Warm spells

* Weak - feel weak, weakness, low energy, light, soft, like you may faint

* Weak legs, arms, or muscles

* Weight loss, weight gain

Chest (anxiety symptoms commonly associated with the chest area):

* Chest pain or discomfort

* Concern about the heart

* Feel like you have to force yourself to breath

* Find it hard to breath, feeling smothered, shortness of breath

* Frequent yawning to try and catch your breath

* Heart Palpitations – beating hard or too fast, rapid heartbeat

* Heart - Irregular heart rhythms, flutters or ‘skipped’ beats, tickle in the chest that makes you cough

* Pounding heart, heart feels like it is beating too hard

* Rib or rib cage tightness, pressure, or feeling like a tight band around the rib cage

Emotions (see mood) (anxiety symptoms commonly associated with emotions, mood, and feelings)

Fears (anxiety symptoms commonly associated with fear):

* A heightened fear of what people think of you

* Afraid of being trapped in a place with no exits

* Constant feeling of being overwhelmed.

* Fear of being in public

* Fear of dying

* Fear of losing control

* Fear of impending doom

* Fear of making mistakes or making a fool of yourself to others

* Fear of passing out

* Fear that you are losing your mind

* Fears about irrational things, objects, circumstances, or situations

* Fears of going crazy, of dying, of impending doom, of normal things, unusual feelings and emotions, unusually frightening thoughts or feelings

* Heightened self awareness, or self-consciousness

* Need to find nearest washrooms before you can feel comfortable

* Need to seat near exits

Head (anxiety symptoms commonly associated with the head):

* Burning, itchy, tight scalp

* Dizziness

* Dizzy

* Dizziness or light-headedness

* Frequent headaches, migraine headaches

* Feeling like there is a tight band around your head, pressure, tightness

* Head, neck or shoulder pain, tightness/stiffness

* Head zaps, head tremors

* Giddiness

* Numbness

* Numbness tingling, numbness and tingling

* Shooting pains, stabbing pains, and odd pressures in the neck, head, or face

* Shooting pains in the face

* Shooting pains in the scalp or head

* When you close your eyes you feel like are beginning to, or will, float upwards

* Sore jaw that feels like a tooth ache

* TMJ (Temporo-Mandibular Joint) - clenching of the jaw or grinding of the teeth

Hearing/Ear(s) (anxiety symptoms commonly associated with hearing):

* Feel like there is something stuck in your ear, that your ear canal it plugged or blocked, that there is a pebble in your ear that you can’t get out

* Low rumbling sounds

* Reduced hearing, frequent or intermittent reduced hearing or deafness in one or both ears

* Ringing in the ears, noises in the ears, noises in the head

* Pulsing in the ears, throbbing sound in the ear(s)

Mind (anxiety symptoms commonly associated with the mind and thinking):

* Afraid of everything

* Altered state of reality, consciousness, or universe feeling

* Deja Vu, a feeling like you’ve done or experienced something before

* Depersonalization

* Derealization

* Desensitization

* Difficulty concentrating, short-term memory loss

* Difficulty thinking, speaking, forming thoughts, following conversations

* Disorientation

* Fear of going crazy

* Fear of losing control

* Fear of impending doom

* Feelings of unreality

* Frequent feeling of being overwhelmed, or that there is just too much to handle or do

* Having difficulty concentrating

* Nightmares, bad dreams

* Obsession about sensations or getting better

* Repetitive thinking or incessant ‘mind chatter’

* Short-term learning impairment, have a hard time learning new information

* Short-term memory impairment, can’t remember what I did a few days, hours, or moments ago

* Spaced out feelings, feeling spaced out

* “Stuck” thoughts; thoughts, mental images, concepts, songs, or melodies that “stick” in your mind and replay over and over again.

* Trapped in your mind feeling

* Underlying anxiety, apprehension, or fear

* You often feel you are carrying the world on your shoulders

Mood / Emotions (anxiety symptoms commonly associated with mood, emotions, and feelings):

* Always feeling angry and lack of patience

* Depersonalization

* Depression

* Dramatic mood swings (emotional flipping)

* Emotionally blunted, flat, or numb

* Emotional “flipping” (dramatic mood swings)

* Emotions feel wrong

* Everything is scary, frightening

* Feeling down in the dumps

* Feeling like things are unreal or dreamlike

* Frequently being on edge or ‘grouchy’

* Feel like crying for no apparent reason

* Have no feelings about things you used to

* Not feeling like yourself, detached from loved ones, emotionally numb

* Underlying anxiety, apprehension, or fear

* You feel like you are under pressure all the time

Mouth/Stomach (anxiety symptoms commonly associated with the mouth and stomach):

* A ‘tinny’, ‘metallic’ or ‘ammonia’, or unusual smell or taste

* Aerophagia (swallowing too much air, stomach distention, belching)

* Burning mouth, feeling like the inside of your mouth is burning, or tingling, or like pins and needles, or all of these together or at different times

* Burning tongue, feeling like your tongue is burning, or tingling, or like pins and needles, or all of these, or all of these together or at different times

* Choking

* Constant craving for sugar or sweets

* Constipation

* Diarrhea

* Difficulty swallowing

* Difficulty talking, pronouncing certain letters or sounds, mouth feels like it isn’t moving right, slurred speech

* Dry mouth

* Feeling like you can’t swallow properly or that something will get caught in your throat

* Feeling like your tongue is swollen

* IBS

* Lack of appetite or taste

* Lump in the throat, tight throat, something stuck in your throat

* Mouth muscles twitching/jumping

* Mouth or throat clicking or grating sound/noise when you move your mouth or jaw, such as when talking

* Nausea

* Nausea vomiting

* Nausea or abdominal stress

* Numbness

* Numbness tingling, numbness and tingling

* Stomach upset, gas, belching, bloating

* Teeth grinding

* The thought of eating makes you nauseous

* Tight throat, lump in throat

* Throat or mouth clicking or grating sound/noise when you move your mouth or jaw, such as when talking

* TMJ

* Tongue symptoms - Tingly, “stretched,” numb, frozen, itchy, “crawly,” burning, twitching, “jumpy,” aching, sore, or swollen tongue (when it isn’t).

* Urgency to urinate, frequent urination, sudden urge to go to the washroom

* Vomiting

Skin (anxiety symptoms commonly associated with the skin):

* Burning skin sensations, skin sensitivity

* Numbness

* Numbness tingling, numbness and tingling

* Skin problems, infections, rashes

Sleep (anxiety symptoms commonly associated with sleep):

* Difficulty falling or staying asleep

* Frequent bad, bizarre, or crazy dreams

* Hearing sounds in your head that jolt you awake

* Insomnia, or waking up ill in the middle of the night

* Jolting awake

* Waking up in a panic attack

* You feel worse in the mornings

Sight (anxiety symptoms commonly associated with sight):

* Distorted, foggy, or blurred vision

* Dry, watery or itchy eyes

* Eye tricks, seeing things our of the corner of your eye that isn’t there, stars, flashes

* Eyes sensitive to light

* Spots in the vision

* Flashing lights when eyes are closed

* Your depth perception feels wrong

Touch (anxiety symptoms commonly associated with touch):

* Burning skin sensations, skin sensitivity

* Feeling cold or chilled

* Numbness

* Numbness tingling, numbness and tingling

* Pain

* Tingling, pins and needles feelings

Other anxiety symptoms are described as:

Being like a hypochondriac, muscle twinges, worry all the time, tingles, gagging, tightness in the chest, tongue twitches, shaky, breath lump, heart beat problems, head tingles, itchy tingling in arms and legs, and so many more.

In addition to these anxiety symptoms, you may also find yourself worrying compulsively about:

• Having a heart attack

• Having a serious undetected illness

• Dying prematurely

• Going insane or losing your mind

• Suddenly snapping

• Losing it

• Uncontrollably harming yourself or someone you love

• Losing control of your thoughts and actions

• Being embarrassed or making a fool out of yourself

• Losing control

• Fainting in public

• Not breathing properly

• Losing control of reality

• Choking or suffocating

• Being alone

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Hello

That is a long list but all can be anxiety related and is mind blowing just what anxiety can cause

Just also wanted to say even though all those symptoms are very true what anxiety can cause if we are suffering with any of them for any length of time we should always see our Doctor to get checked out to get the all clear that it is anxiety that is causing them :-)

Take Care x

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JLou

My biggest thing is lightheadedness. IT DRIVES ME INSANE! Anybody else have bad lighthead/dizzy? I've had this for months now.

The biggest question of all is... all this anxiety, how do we make it go away?!?!?!

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Normal63 in reply to JLou

Hi I've had it for 2yrs now😞 nothing makes it go away. Sometimes when I'm busy I don't feel it. I've had every test possible and there all normal🤔 My last resort is going to see a ear nose and throat dr. I do notice that it gets worse durning spring!!

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Johncmathews in reply to JLou

Dizziness?? If you feel like you drank 2 beers then that is exactly how I feel. Half a year straight now

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Nathan1993

hey thanks for the list of all possible symptoms, I have a few here myself but I don't particularly feel anxious at all, the cognitive side of things (short term learning impairment and short term memory impairment) as well as vision problems and my ear feeling plugged, just out of curiosity do these symptoms get better on their own in time or would going on anti-depressants help? as these symptoms are driving me mad and are sucking the light out of my life at the moment as I've had them for nearly a year now :(

Anyone get excess saliva I think I get it when I'm concentrating on it x

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Mendoza

Hi everyone I'm new and also would like to know what can help with this panick attacks well been to hospital three times and done heart test and blood work checked my pressure and they say it's anxiety and gave me pills for that but haven't taken them cuz of the side effects I feel like dying I can't no more with this 😔😭

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Mendoza

Sometimes I feel so well then my breathing problem sucks at night haven't slept for three days feel out of the blue I want my life back 😞😪

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Sacolucci

One of the worst things anxiety sufferers can get is a real illness. I recently had BPPV and still suffering extreme paralyzing anxiety from residual dizziness.

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HopingCat

I think I found all my symptoms on this post. Thanks. And I see my hell there. Depersonalization/derealization.... HORRIFIC

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gollygilly

idk if mines anxiety or not it started with my tongue feeling weird and then the tip of it feeling tingly which led to me thinking its something life threatening which only made it worse and then I get lightheartedness but lately it's been more and just the feeling of doom and I just cant relax this has been going on a month now I want my normal life back 😭

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