Body-wide cold cold shiver brought on by anxiety?

[Hypersleep]

Maybe it has to do with the colder weather where I am lately, but I doubt it. My biggest cause for anxiety lately is food. And lately sometimes when I'm eating, most often if it will happen in happens on the first bite of a meal. But I just get this body wide cold pins and needles almost feeling. It's so overwhelming it makes my mind go into overdrive. This used to be able to totally put me off my meal and just utterly distract me from what I was doing. It has happened once in recent memory BEFORE I was going to eat. But from what I can tell it's definitely caused by anxiety and makes me very anxious after it hits me. Has anyone experienced something like this or similar?

I've done my best to eliminate variables and track down the cause of this as it's fairly recent but from what I can tell it's just a new symptom of my anxiety lately. I used to just get a tightness in my chest that lasted a bit longer or a feeling like I'd need to rush to the toilet or the occasional nervous dry-reaching. But this is new, uncommon thus far but new. Am I giving this power by assuming it's related to anxiety?

[white knight]

Hi H, welcome

Im only familiar with tightening of the chest. But of course your GP is the best dtep forward...we cant diagnose.

You might also want to google these

Topic: how I eliminated anxiety- beyondblue

Topic: be radical- beyondblue

Cheers Tony WK

[Starwolf]

Hello Hypersleep,

Anxiety can manifest physically in many different ways. I am familiar with chest tightness, breathing difficulties, a thumping, irregular heartbeat, vomiting and the odd unexplained random pain.

To allay doubts, the best approach would probably be a chat with your GP. Just to eliminate the possibility of a different cause. Knowing where you stand would help you regain some peace of mind...which is most important.

Have you checked anxiety treatment sites like MindSpot and MoodGym ?

[Hypersleep]

Never heard of those actually. So long as they won't let me get carried away I'll give em a look. I find I don't want to read too much about anxiety at once really. Don't want to learn about new ways of suffering kind of. Not to sound grim. But I will give it a look.

[Starwolf]

Unfortunately, coping strategies are more about facing and managing anxiety than avoidance. Personally, I could never beat anxiety by avoiding to face it. It often hit full force at random times, regardless of what I was doing and thinking. I found that having tools to cope when it became disruptive did help. It gave me some measure of control over it. Eventually, with persistent practice, it stopped being an issue. We're all different.

Kudos for having a look anyway. You are in control of login off ...

[Veejay10]

Hi there

I’m very new to the world of anxiety. Just started having symptoms at the start of the year. Now I’ve given it energy it seems to be escalating. My doc put me on meds yesterday and I’ve started waking up with these feelings. So awful and gripping. I spoke to my doc and she didn’t think it was med related more a panic response probably regarding accepting this issue. Just woke from a nap and was gripped by one and then the cold rushes came. I just breathe and try to eat something. Seems worse when blood sugar low. Thanks for helpful posts 🙂