Menthol, heat rub feeling all over my chest

[Livs_life_03_25]

Hi!

I suffer from health realated anxiety. Especially about taking new medication or eating certain foods.

It started on sunday after taking a medication that I was nervous about. Since then the skin on my chest feels like how your mouth would feel after gargling mouth wash.

It's tingly Like a menthol feeling or like someone has rubbed heat rub all over me.

When I think about it or when I start to have a panic attack it gets worse.

I had absolutely no reactions from the medication and so far I feel absolutely normal, no head aches, no nausea, no pain.

It's just this werid tingly feeling on my skin.

Is it my anxiety? Am I crazy 😅.

I'm going to go do a medical exam to rule anything else out.

[Tma621]

I was reading your comment on someone else's post about the menthol feeling and you said it started about a week after you got the vaccine - I had the strangest sensations throughout my body about 2 weeks after I got the JJ vaccine that lasted about a week. Pins and needles all over. It felt like someone was poking me a needle all over my body, definitely some sort of nerve thing. I know my anxiety was making it worse. My rule is usually give things about a week before I reach out to my doctor and it did eventually go away. I'm sorry you have to deal with it, I know how frustrating it is. If you feel fine otherwise, that's a great sign. You're not crazy - anxiety is just the worst. I found a podcast last week (anxiety chronicles) that i've been finding helpful, it's worth a listen. They're short episodes, breathing techniques, reminders of things we know but forget when we're deep into anxious episodes. I hope you feel better!

[Livs_life_03_25 in reply to Tma621]

Thanks so much for the reply! I got it after Pfizer and it's been freaking my out and everyone thinks I'm crazy because it's not a known side effect.

[Tma621 in reply to Livs_life_03_25]

You're not crazy. Even when I asked my PCP about it and if it could be a side effect of the vaccine (or a side effect of Covid, which I had at the beginning of the year) she said "We just don't know". There's still so much unknown, and I think everyone is different in how the body reacts. You'll be ok. My family thinks i'm crazy, too. Like my PCP said, it's good to let your Doctor know because they could have someone else come in with the same side effect and it could help them realize people do have other symptoms.

[Livs_life_03_25 in reply to Tma621]

I actually found an article on your tingly fingers side effect.

bustle.com/wellness/pins-ne...