Anxiety Induced BFS

Hi All,

I’ve had anxiety my whole life. I’ve also had muscle twitches at times throughout my life. I’m 34 years old - but I recall have the occasional twitch in my late teenage years and early 20s. I never thought anything of it. I usually noticed them when I was overtired, drinking too much, not sleeping enough, etc.

Over the last month I’ve had very bad anxiety thinking something was wrong with me. To make a long story somewhat short, I had been dealing with an uptick in soreness in my body that I just am not accustom to. I’ve been a gym rat my whole life.

I got stuck on a long flight and made what I think was a drastic mistake going down the rabbit hole of what could be wrong with me. I’ve gone from fibromyalgia to Lyme to now ***.

I was reading about all of these items and really the only symptom I was having was my one calf feeling a bit more strained than normal. I also had a small bit of dizziness and just wasn’t feeling totally like myself. Joints hurt a bit but I think that might have just been due to cold weather.

I really started stressing about this to the point it took over my mind 24/7. Then, about four days ago, I’m laying in bed at night and notice my calf starting to twitch. The next two days I began to have twitches all over. Legs, arms, shoulders, etc. When I say this was causing my high degrees of anxiety - I mean I was literally breaking down while at work multiple times a day.

Thursday morning I woke up and my chest muscles were twitching uncontrollably at a rate I had never seen. This obviously induced a panic in me - I waited for it to pass - then went to the doctor.

The doctor prescribed me to some medicine - which instantly began to limit the twitching. Not completely gone, but a massive and noticeable decline in the twitches. The medicine doesn’t last long - it wears off every 3-4 hours or so and I can fully tell when it does because I’m back into full on panic mode.

Just wanted to get thoughts on anxiety inducing twitching and if anyone ever experienced it? Did anxiety meds clear it up for you as it has calmed mine at times?

I’ve continued to be in the gym and feel as strong as ever. And yet that still isn’t doing anything to ease my mind.

Wondering if I’m the only one going through this?