Tingling sensation in legs. Hypochondria

[Rach93]

Hi,

For the past week or 2 I have been getting tingling on & off in my legs and sometimes in other parts of my body.. it comes & goes sometimes it feels like when you watch something or hear something you like and you get the chill sensation & other times it’s like a weird tingly sensation.. because of this I think I have turned into a Hypochondria.. I keep researching my symptom and all that comes up is that I have MS. I went to the dr and told him my concern & that I might have MS and I want to rule It out & he just laughed and went on to talk about getting bloods for vitamin levels & asked if I’m stressed. It gave me no re assurance & I have to go back for my blood tests on Tuesday & im really hoping it has something to do with vitamin deficiency or other things causing it.. I am so emotional because of how I am acting.. I cannot stop trying to look for another answer as to why this is happening trying to find something better then me potentially having MS. I am going back to my regular dr on Monday to do up a mental health plan because I have had other symptoms that have came and come and they just blamed it on anxiety - and I fear she is just going to blame it on anxiety too! I am going to push for more tests to be done.. but it’s like no matter how many test are done I still am not convinced until the third or fourth time around - then it goes away for a bit I feel ok, then weird sensations start happening and I’m worrying all over again.. it is a vicious cycle and I don’t know how to deal with this. I am feeling very depressed and want to hear from people with maybe similar symptoms or people who are dealing with being a hypochondriac. I just want to understand why this is happening to me all of a sudden.. why am I going crazy googling and scaring myself to the point I can’t even sleep and I am obsessing over every little twinge in my body.

[Truc]

Hi Rach93

I think I myself experienced similar situations before, I was also sometime concerned pretty much about my health conditions. So I hope my advice could be helpful for you. I think your concern is quite reasonable if you have experienced something weird to your body, to me, if I want to test my health in my country or anywhere, I usually do full body check and maybe take a several day to test in different hospital with different doctors and practioners as well, because everyone can make a mistake and I think doctors are not exceptions here, it may be costly but I think it is good for me. Therefore going to some other hospitals at the same time calm me down and I think people should too. I hopemit is helpful

[Rach93]

Hi Truc

Thanks for your reply.. sorry to hear you also worry about your health like I do it’s not very nice and is very distressing. I will take your advice on seeing different drs if my usual dr doesn’t take me seriously. I’m hoping if I tell her I am very upset by it and how I’m turning into such a hypochondriac that she will send me for a MRI etc to rule out anything bad. I know I probably still won’t be reassured but least I’ll know in the back of my mind that I’m ok.

[smallwolf]

Hi. It can be really frustrating when your body is trying to tell you something and not being able to find out the answer. Before I went on medication for depression and anxiety the feeling you mentioned occurred around my scalp. At the time I didn't really associate it with stress or anxiety. Looking back I would. On medication, or the first one, I had the feeling of skin crawling on my legs.

While there might be a possibility of MS, I try to disregard what Dr Google tells me. Put another way, I don't. The one time I tried it was a disaster. So I leave that in the hands of the experts.

I don't think that you are making it up and writing here when you think you are being a hypochondriac also takes courage.

Tim