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Is jerking and twitching in the head, arms, legs, and feet associated with anxiety? uncontrollable head movement, head rushes, feeling lightheaded, and none of the head twitching is noticable to any1 but myself.

By Anonymous December 20, 2009 - 11:56am
 
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I'm a 17 year old female, and my only stress was worrying about my health. i just had a check up, doc said im health. but then i started all this twitching. recently my bf got locked up, not the twitching seems worse or at least i pay more attention to it! it happens more when i pay attention too it. its not noticeable to other, but i feel it, like ill be sitting here, and my head will make a little "jerk" to the side, not to bad though. is this anxiety? im worried. i thought it was a brain tumor, or MS! :( i am a hypochondriac too!

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Anonymous (reply to Anonymous)

wait what symptoms did you have? how did you get it from? are you taking any medication?

January 10, 2011 - 11:31pm
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Anonymous (reply to Anonymous)

wait what symptoms did you have? how did you get it from? are you taking any medication?

January 10, 2011 - 10:15pm
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I am not sure what you mean that she said, "...that twitching I am experiencing is a neurological symptom, however, I am not experiencing any neurological signs or anything".

If your doctor said that the twitching may be an indicator of a neurological symptom, I would ask for a referral to a Neurologist to have a thorough exam. A family doctor is not able to perform complete neurological testing.

If your doctor said that the twitching is NOT a neurological symptom, but that she believes it is psychological in nature, then I would again ask her for a referral, but this time, to a Psychologist for testing and diagnosis.

I think there is a difference between "worrying about every little symptom" and making sure to rule-out obvious symptoms with a few doctor visits.

Can you write back, and let us know what the doctor said about the twitching you are experiencing, and how you feel about obtaining a referral to a Neurologist and/or Psychologist? Do you feel that you may have anxiety and/or depression? (Click on the words, and you can learn more about the symptoms for each of these. We are also happy to provide more information about these conditions).

December 27, 2009 - 12:48pm
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Anonymous (reply to Alison Beaver)

hi im 22 years old and turning 23 on jan, and my case is having twiching head, legs, feet, arms, almost everywhere in my body. It all started from smoking marijuana 8 years ago and then they all started to develop over the years. First thing happened was we smoked weed on a blunt and this guy kept forcing me to smoke more than enough so i was like smoking too much that i cant handle, and after couple of minutes i started to see blurry and i got so nervous cause i don't know whats happening to me. After that i decided to go home and went to the backyard to figure out what to do and my muscles starts to twitch from legs to head, it was crazy it feels like its spinning all over my legs, and after that my head starts twitching too. Crazy it feels same way as the legs are twitching, so i just pulled my self together and pray to god that it would stop.But i decided to take a shower so the effect would go down and it kinda helped, but since then i've never felt the same me anymore, cause it left me anxiety, or worriness, it feels like a trauma to me, after that incident i always feel weird everytime. It feels like im always in trouble that im gonna feel the same way again over and over so i always feel nervous about it. My chest is pounding hard my body twitches everytime the incident pops in my head, it feels like i cant help it. So for the couple of years i've been having anxiety with all these strange feelings in my body and my head twitching got worse cause it feels like its all over my head now, it twitches or it feel like its about to twitch whenever i feel nervous, and im so scared that it would lead to serious problems.I know i got all these from just smoking marijuana and it cause me a lot out of my anxiety. The most bothering problem that anxiety gives me was having trouble to sleep. I cant sleep at night fast cause of the anxiety makes me tense or nervous so it bothers me and giving me hot flashes too. Over the years new symptoms have developed in my body including the hot flashes and the twitching in my head. At first 4 to 6 years my head doesnt twitch that much or it was just a clicking in my head, i can even hear it when it happens. So in the next 2 to 3 years the twitching began in my head noticebly enough to tell. But only me i meant can notice it cause i feel it in my head when i get nervous or anxiety attacks me. So for the first time i went to a mental clinic to discuss this problem and they prescribed me a antidepressant drugs called zoloft. I was scared to try because i dont wanna have any side effects with it so i decided to get a second opinion first before trying some drugs. The other problem is i dont have medical insurance to cover this so thats why i've only been to clinic once. But since i have a registration with some community hospital i was able to get some help lately, and i have an upcoming appoint. on next wed. and i would tell it all from there. So now im dealing with this anxiety for years and i haven't figured out a solution just yet, and im hoping for good that someday it would be totally gone in my system forever so i would feel the same person again or atleast its not a serious problem to be stressed about.

December 16, 2010 - 10:17pm
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Anonymous (reply to Anonymous)

This was definately not brought on by marijuana.

November 8, 2011 - 12:47am
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