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Benzos Who else gets the physical anxiety symptoms as well as the mental ones?

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Jt723

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The physical ones like numbness, pain in any part of the body, twiching, headaches,burning in any part off the body pressure in the head, feeling light headed ect. theres a huge list with 100+ anxiety symptoms. benzos are the only thing that seem to help these physical symptoms. anyone else go through these?
 
I get twitching, instant headaches and my whole head does feel like it's burning and yes Xanax is the only thing that calms all that down. Thankfully it doesn't happen too often these days.
 
tricomb said:
When I'm anxious it makes my pain levels soar. Mind-body connection...
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Bingo! This is me as well.........I have scoliosis & lumbar disc problems & im in pain but if I have anxiety &/or stressed out over something, my pain level sky rockets! A vicodin + a .5mg ativan go well for me.
 
I can't put it any better way: The psychological anxiety common of persons with anxiety disorders, depression, OCD, withdrawls, is the source of any physical symptoms experienced concurrently with the former. Ex.: the more mental anxiety one faces, the more likely physical symptoms are to manifest themselves in a similar way. (Remember the old saying about "mind over matter" :P), well it turns out, in my own expierence, mental stress/anxiety/depression does influence the physical state of the individual.

I remember in middle school I began to stutter, which developed roughly the same time in my life when I started experiencing more difficult emotional stress (like many middle-schoolers), but also facing the realities of growing up, and my stutter persisted but gradually declined as I became accostumed to the stress, embarrassment, etc. of having a stutter. it was many factors, too many to name, which led my physical condition to start reflecting my mental problems. As soon as I began letting go of those anxieties, the impediement of language had been lifted.

I have other personal examples to show this but, point being, it is often true that the mind and body are linked not by chance but by necessity, whether that be pain or pleasure. If there is stress to be had, it serves a purpose similar to a warning sign (Hey! Youre in rought shit - and while you toss and turn fighting insomnia, remember that you now have two enemies to face. One: obstructing you from rest The Other: causing worry about getting adequate amount of sleep.)

Thats how I make sense of it. but please offer a rebutal if Ive completely missed the point. I type very fast when I have no anxieties at mind (heh I have to poke fun at myself occassionally). Clonazepam has proved a wonderful anxiolytic for me, I would recommend it to those who enjoy stability, it's not a drug to get a "rush" from compared to Alprazolam, which for me, is too potent to actually improve those waking hours.
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Bingo! This is me as well.........I have scoliosis & lumbar disc problems & im in pain but if I have anxiety &/or stressed out over something, my pain level sky rockets! A vicodin + a .5mg ativan go well for me.
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I also have a herniated disc as well as sciatica, and when I am anxious, the pain is highly intensified. I have come to believe that the reason for this is because when I am anxious I shake, and when I shake, that upsets the muscles and bones in my body, causing my back to hurt. This is more prominent at bedtime, probably due to the fact that Im not active and my mind focuses more easily on the pain and twitching. This also causes me to have restless leg syndrome.

Back on topic, however, I have dealt with pain all my life, and in the last ten years, have dealt with many addictions. To me the physical part of withdrawal isn't as hard to get through as the mental. I already suffer from bipolarism, anxiety and insomnia, and going through withdrawal just makes it worse. Xanax help immensely to alleviate the problem. I was on 3mg a day, but lost health insurance, now Ive been without it for over a month. Im still a nervous, depressed wreck.
 
With me, at age 10 it started with stomachaches. Then it progressed to a bleeding ulcer before I was 11. I coukld not face being in public so I stayed in my home. I missed a lot of school. Luckily in those days you could miss a lot of school and still pas if you did the work at home. My sister would bring my work home. I misseed 81 days my sixth grade year and still passed. As an adult anxiety makes my heart race, my face feel warm, my stomach feel nauseous, and I get shaky. 5 mgs. a day of Xanax stops all of that!!
 
as soon as my foot starts to twitch, i know the vomiting/naseau is coming
a weird feeling in my chest. tingles so bad my face feels like its moving



sometimes i feel warm/prickly is that symptom?
 
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