OMG...Serious serious muscle spasm in face/shoulder

[Nyxienoodles]

I was laying in bed this morning and I was fine.  My mind was drifting, and then all of a sudden I get this weird sensation in my left shoulder/bicep and its spasming then the spasm moved to my face and made one side of my mouth pull way down.  It did it like four times.  Afterwards my hand on my left side got really cold and now I have a crampy weak feeling in my left arm, neck, and jaw.  My left side has been predominantly what is bothering me.  I have pain and fatigue in my left side alot.  I can't afford anymore doctor bills.  I had my gallbladder out last week and I can't afford that.  I'm so scared I have some horrible neurological disorder and I feel like I could do the twitchy thing again any second.  I'm so scared.  I don't want to have a serous illness.  I'm freakin out.  I don't know what to do. 

[Nyxienoodles]

The starred out word is f.a.c.e.

[sixpack]

oh that sounds like it hurt.  I have gotten things like that in my back.  It will take my breath away.  The worst, worst, worst cramps I've every had were in my shins (not calf muscles those hurt but not like the shins).  I would feel one coming on and try to walk them off but it would still happen.  I'd walk around the house for 10 minutes trying to ge them to go away.  Our poor muscles really do suffer when our nerves are shot.

[sixpack]

The starred out word is f.a.c.e.

yeah I know.  I'm still perplexed as to why f.ace is starred.  Now I always do f.ace with a period between the f and a. 

[Nyxienoodles]

I feel like its gonna happen again.  I don't see how anxiety could cause something so severe.  It was awful and I had no control over it.  It was like my arm muscles went crazy then my f.ace went crazy.  It was scary as heck and I'm so afraid it's gonna happen again and I have ALS or MS or something else bad.  I hate this.  After it happened I had the severe urge to google it...so I did.  All bad.  My arm and f.ace feel so weird now.  I don't need this crap on top of my cancer fears. 

[Nyxienoodles]

Maybe I'm not describing this well enough.  I'm not sure if it would be classified as a spasm, twitch or what.  It was SEVERE.  Like to the point that it made one whole side of my face move down.  I'm severely worried.  Should I go to a doctor?

[sixpack]

Maybe I'm not describing this well enough.  I'm not sure if it would be classified as a spasm, twitch or what.  It was SEVERE.  Like to the point that it made one whole side of my ******** move down.  I'm severely worried.  Should I go to a doctor?

that is the why anxiety works so well.  We can't believe it could be that severe.  did you know my friend had her left f.ace, neck, shoulder go completely numb from anxiety.  yep---doc thought MS and ran all the pertinent tests.  Did you know that women can so totally believe they are pregnant that they stop mensturating and actually have their abdomens swell?  Did you know  people have gone temporarily blind from anxiety?  Did you know there is a disorder caused by extreme emotional issues called PNES--psychogenic non epileptic seizures?  Yep!!! These are just a few examples of how anxiety can afffect people to the extreme.

Should you go to the doctor?  That is up to you.  All I can say is that I've had pretty severe cramping and thought it was some big bad scary neuro issue.  At most it was caused by herniated disks.

[floridaguy65]

Hi there: It seems you're getting yourself really worked up this morning. Some days really get off to a bad start, I know from experience....then it's tough to pull it all back in and have a "normal" day:)
I re-read some of your posts and the HA has got a good grip on you lately. Like I've said in other posts...I have twitched from sun up til sun down (and then all night:)...I have spasmed for hours on end (and then a few more hours just for fun:) It is difficult to fathom the effect that anxiety / panic can have on our poor nerves and muscles...they are churned and burned until near exhaustion. You've had some medical checkups lately, as well, that should give you something to hold onto during panic moments. You said "I don't see how anxiety can cause something so severe"...that's part of the disorders. It wrecks havoc on our tired minds...wears us down until we loose our last little grip on being rational and KABOOMY there's the panic attack or HA running wild. Are you trying any methods for some slight reductions in your overall anxiety? I know you take some meds? Do they help "take the edge off" sometimes? Feel well:)

[Nyxienoodles]

Thanks for the replies.  I'm just really scared because nothing like that has ever happened to me.  It was so strange.  I have the little twitches all over in other muscles and fatigue and weakness and cramping.  Especially on my left side. 

[sixpack]

Thanks for the replies.  I'm just really scared because nothing like that has ever happened to me.  It was so strange.  I have the little twitches all over in other muscles and fatigue and weakness and cramping.  Especially on my left side.

been there and done that.     when I'm particularly worked up, I twitch like a demon.  But an every day normal level anxious, I still probably have a couple a dozen twitches.  eh, no biggy.  I know that is stress related/overtaxed nerves just getting wiggy.

[Nyxienoodles]

It just did it again, but it wasn't as bad.  I'm so freaked out.  Thinking about going to the doctor.  I've seen him so many times lately he's going to start ignoring me and that will be bad.  It's like the side of my mouth grimaces.  It's weird. 

[sixpack]

I remember when I was fearing MS a couple of years ago, now, that I was so very concerned about a particular symptom--I shant tell you what it was.  Suffice it to say it is one of the major ones and something with the eyes.  I was so pleased I hadn't had it.  Just knew it would be the final nail...  Anyway day later it happened.  Of course I totally freaked.  then I noticed it happened again.  At that point I focused all my attention to how my eyes were behaving. My sister told me an eye test to check for this issue, so I spent a good bit of my days in the bathroom performing this test.    My eyes ended up hurting sooo bad and I was sooooo exhausted trying to control my eyes.  It happened quite a few times, until I finally succumbed and ran off to the neurologist.... pfft.   Once I was, again, cleared of having MS, that symptom plus a host of others gradually went away...  Of course a month later I was worrying over Ovarian cancer.  pfft again.  It wasn't until I started looking at the cause of why I behaved as I did, did I start to see the light at the end of the tunnel.     

*edit*--when I saw the doc and he checked me for this eye issue, he did NOT use the test my sister told me docs used to determine it.  lol

[Nyxienoodles]

I've got the ovarian cancer fear too because I have had an alternating heavy/light period for over 2 weeks now.  I have irregular periods.  I went without one for a long time until 3 months ago.  But, I'm still worried about it too.  I'm worried about ovarian cancer too.  I know I would be horribly unlucky to have two horrible diseases at once.