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Trying so hard with my twitching

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Terrifiedshakes · 01/08/2024 00:46

See my other threads. I'm at a loss

I'm trying so hard to sort out why I'm twitching. I'm taking Kalm tablets now and I'm trying hard with breathing techniques

Yet I still continue to twitch all over my body. Every few mins there is a twitch and it can be anywhere.

I'm bow trying to fall asleep but I keep getting woken up by a massive twitch that feels like it's coming from my head. I'm terrified it's a seizure that I can't go back to sleep.

I am so very anxious though about these twitxhes. It's a vicious cycle. If they are anxiety related how do I break the cycle and why are they coming from my head and waking me up with such a jolt..

Please be gentle with me with your advice as I'm so scared I've got MS or a brain tumour or MND I'm sat here trembling with fear and the trembling is fear , the twitches are muscle.

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Terrifiedshakes · 08/08/2024 21:28

Doctor said it coukd be that it's passing through gut quickly bexuase I'm on new meds. I think she said this but my brain is fried. I can't belive her incase it's something serious like pancreatic cancer or liver disease. I'm not googling nothing though. It's painful to Google and its getting me nowhere.

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Terrifiedshakes · 08/08/2024 21:21

I've never had this before. I can't have just started meds 3 days ago and now this happen. Its hopefully linked. They are on my stomache I can tell

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Terrifiedshakes · 08/08/2024 21:19

Just looked at drs notes and shes put

Could be side effect of meds, may settle in time '

Thanks for all this Keir

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KeirSpoutsTwaddle · 08/08/2024 21:17

So you aren’t. Everything’s been tested. You’re thoroughly tested.

What you need is the box breathing and the grounding exercise.

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Terrifiedshakes · 08/08/2024 21:16

My storages been gurgling today with loose stools but no pain. I don't have any pain. My bloods came back good a month ago. I can't be ill with some terrible disease. This has got to be the tablets upsetting my system

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KeirSpoutsTwaddle · 08/08/2024 21:15

The systems in our body and the way we feel make a kind of loop- you feel nervous because you’re breathing fast, you breathe fast because you’re nervous.

So stop. Breathe.
Think about kittens and beaches and whatever.

Ground your self.
im going to try and find a grounding exercise I find helpful.

KeirSpoutsTwaddle · 08/08/2024 21:12

You know how sometimes, it’s really hard to reverse the car and park because someone’s watching you? Maybe your body feels a bit like that. “Hey! Stop looking at me! I’m trying to work here “

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Terrifiedshakes · 08/08/2024 21:12

Yes

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StressyDepressy · 08/08/2024 21:11

Hey love.

There is a small chance you could be physically poorly. But let’s be fair to yourself - your urgent medical problem at the minute is your anxiety. It’s crying out through the pages so god knows how tense and tortured you must feel right now.

you CANT be in a place to sort out your body, because your mind is the emergency right now.

have you ever heard of box breathing?

try it for me now

breathe in for 4 seconds

hold it for 4 seconds

breathe out for 4 seconds

hold it for 4 seconds

breathe In for 4 seconds

etc etc

keep going till you feel calmer. If you stop and start to tense up again, try box breathing again…

KeirSpoutsTwaddle · 08/08/2024 21:11

So all sorts of stuff goes on, routinely, without us paying any attention.

KeirSpoutsTwaddle · 08/08/2024 21:10

Those are physical things that feel like emotions.

Nerves, chemicals, hormones, all slosh about doing their thing.

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Terrifiedshakes · 08/08/2024 21:10

I'm trying to calm . I'm not touching Google as I know what it will say and its frightening

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KeirSpoutsTwaddle · 08/08/2024 21:10

We talk about gut feeling, a sinking feeling in my gut, butterflies…

KeirSpoutsTwaddle · 08/08/2024 21:09

So the gut has almost as many nerves as the brain.

KeirSpoutsTwaddle · 08/08/2024 21:09

A lot of the feelings we experience aren’t deep and meaningful. They are basic physiological responses that ‘feel like’ emotions.

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Terrifiedshakes · 08/08/2024 21:08

Have can nerves make pale crap

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Terrifiedshakes · 08/08/2024 21:08

Keir I'm trying to

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KeirSpoutsTwaddle · 08/08/2024 21:08

You know this is your brain and nerves creating an issue, not an actual health problem.

KeirSpoutsTwaddle · 08/08/2024 21:07

Stop.
breathe

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Terrifiedshakes · 08/08/2024 21:07

I don't know where to turn with this panic

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Terrifiedshakes · 08/08/2024 21:04

I've had three anti depressant tablets so far so are they really on my stomache causing paler stools?

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Terrifiedshakes · 08/08/2024 21:03

Off my food*

I've not felt right today with my tummy, feeling sick and a dry mouth please tell me this coukd be the new medication. The doctor didn't really say. She just wanted a stool sample for infection but I'm not poorly like that. This isn't a bug

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Terrifiedshakes · 08/08/2024 21:02

Clayey yellow colour.

I can't be ill my son needs me he really does . Is this the meds? I've been off my good all day with a dry mouth and nausea which I think is the new medication so can this change in stool colour be it too?

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Terrifiedshakes · 08/08/2024 21:00

My stool is still a really light clay colour. The runs sèem to be stopping now. I'm really panicking please someone calm.me down I'm shaking and I'm hot I feel like I'm going to be sick again..

Can new meds do this to me? There are beads of sweat on .y for head I'm so panicking

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