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I am diagnosed with OCD, GAD and PMDD.

I will be 10 weeks on 20mg Prozac in 2 days and I never been better. I am so grateful I started to take it and I didnt give up on it in the first 2 weeks when the anxiety was horrible.

The side effects were very gentle to me, I was more anxious in the first 2-4 weeks but no panic attacks. The mornings were the worst but didnt last long.

Now? I am this new person, enjoying life and feeling happy. No worries about my health or about the future. The week before my period is no longer like living in hell. I am calm, rational and able to enjoy the moment.

Prozac is a real blessing for me and I am so grateful to my psychiatrist!

I am diagnosed with OCD, GAD and PMDD.

I will be 10 weeks on 20mg Prozac in 2 days and I never been better. I am so grateful I started to take it and I didnt give up on it in the first 2 weeks when the anxiety was horrible.

The side effects were very gentle to me, I was more anxious in the first 2-4 weeks but no panic attacks. The mornings were the worst but didnt last long.

Now? I am this new person, enjoying life and feeling happy. No worries about my health or about the future. The week before my period is no longer like living in hell. I am calm, rational and able to enjoy the moment.

Prozac is a real blessing for me and I am so grateful to my psychiatrist!

How annoying!!! I got used the my whole body twitching but my tongue is the most annoying spot. Is not constant but im hyperfixated on it and sometimes i can feel it and I have the bad habbit of starring at it in the mirror with a flash light. My OCD is on max levels with this one and i cant control being worried about it.

I am twitching for 4 months now, clean EMG and i was about to be out of the rabbit hole but few days ago i saw my tongue and since then im fighting with the anxiety and trying to not to go back in the rabbit hole.

How many of you had or dealing with tongue twitching?

(F/32) Today was a hard day. Ive been better in the past 2 weeks, went to a summer festival this weekend and danced 3 nights in a row even if my feet were killing me and felt sore. I had so much fun! No anxiety ( im on anxiety meds. I have GAD,health anxiety and OCD), no worries about twitching. Ive been dealing with them for almost 4 months now and I almost made pace with them. EMG was clear, I dont have weakness etc etc .. but I was at the dentist today for a filling and when I got home i wanted to look in the mirror at my tooth and there it was .. my tongue! My tongue twitching, moving, shaking .. whatever a tongue does in the mouth lol. But I became hyper fixated on it and now I can see it twitching at rest. Not my first rodeo with tongue twitching. I had it one month ago and had some panic attacks about it until I went on vacation and forgot about it. Now the panic is back and I don't even know why! I know very well in BFS any muscle can twitch and tongue doesnt make an exception. But damn it!!! Why is my OCD and anxiety trying to drag me back in that horrible rabbit hole.. i barely got out of it not long ago.

Please tell me some positive stuff cuz today is a hard day .. the tongue twitching always gets me by surprise 🫠

I am a cam model for 10 years. I work only on one camsite ( freemium)and never been on any other one. I can say i am one of the top models on my camsite ..always on the front row won many model of the day awards but sometimes is so slow and i cant get used to it even with so much experience! I get bored easily, you can see it on my face. I am not always in the mood to dance or to entartain an empty room. Is pretty slow lately and i make money only with people i already know .. for some reason the traffic is very slow and i dont get new members.

I am an independent model so i do my own schedule. In the last month i lost my motivation and i give up on streaming after few hours. Theres always the same people in my room, same thing every night, same convos, is like nights are on repeat.

How do you keep it fun even when is slow? How to not lose motivation? After so many years of camming i feel like im losing my patience and i dont want that..

Few days ago i told you my story here about how i want to get my life back and "fight" with this anxiety and muscle twitches.

Well .. i did it :) The twitches are almost gone ( 90% or more ) and they dont bother me anymore. I have them for over 3 months but once my body and mind relaxed they calmed down and are almost gone.

Coffee is making them show again abit but thats not an issue cuz im not a big fan of coffee anyway. I never ever thought anxiety can do this and i was so scared for my life and my future. Now i realize how powerful our brain is and how can we lose control so easily.

Please trust your doctor, your medical tests results and get some therapy if you are dealing with anxiety or any other mental struggle.

I dont know if is right to be here cuz i know BFS cant be gone that fast but im happy to share my journey here because i know muscle twitches can be so scary especially for people with health anxiety like me. Let them be annoying, let them twitch, let yourself be comfortable with them and dont make them your enemy cuz they will take control over your life and sanity. If they showed up because of your anxiety well .. as long as you will be anxious about them the more they will last.

For me what helped was understanding that my doctor was right, finally trusting my EMG test, reading and doing research about mental health and how anxiety and panic attacks can affect our mind and body. Instead of searching on Google or forums about symptoms i invested my time searching about healing my mind. I also started therapy and im on a SSRI because i was having panic attacks since i started to have twitching muscles and thinking about the big bad even if my neurologist said im fine and my EMG was clear.

All of the small steps i do everyday is leading me to healthier way to think, to treat my body, to be more kind to myself, to stop searching on google, to read horror stories on forums, to look at my tongue in the mirror, to measure my muscles, to look at my legs, to be focused on every sensation i feel, to think that is something wrong with me even if my doctor said everything is ok.

That being said, i didnt feel my muscles twitching for days now. If i did it you can do it too! Trust your body, your doctors,your therapist and please stop staying on Google! is the worst thing you can do for your mental health. It took me awhile to understand this but when i stoped it was like a blessing. I feel like myself again and i cant be more grateful for that.

Thank you to this community for being so supportive!

(F/32yo) Ive been twitching for 3 months now, they started after couple days of stress and health anxiety about someone in my family.

Always been anxious about my health but oh boy! This scare about twitching is on another level! Of course in the first days when I noticed my calf is twitching I googled. BIG MISTAKE! I wish I could turn back in time and never read .. you know what.

Since that day everything changed. In these 3 months I developed twitches all over my body (legs,fingers,toes,tongue,abs,arms, back, neck,eyes,lips, even my butt!). I had panic attacks,anxiety was at max levels, crying every night,I couldnt work,focus on anything, stopped eating, I was always on google or forums, I lost weight, I was pretty much going insane.

I went to a neurologist and told me everything looks fine but I asked her for an EMG. She saw how anxious I was and she agreed just for the peace of my mind. I did the EMG with another neurologist who also told me to calm down because she is sure I dont have anything serious. She was right. Emg clean. When I got home I felt so happy and i said to myself " I can go back to normal now!" HA! what a joke .. health anxiety is so miserable that it wont let you go that easy.

The happiness lasted maybe a week? Until I got back in the rabbit hole seeing that twitching is not going anywhere. Because of the non stop fight or flight state my body basically ran on adrenaline and cortisol making me shaky as well. The mornings were hell for me. I was waking up in panic waiting for the twitches to start and ruin my day. Also the feeling of my muscle being fatigue scared me so much I was a mess really.

One month ago I decided I need help and went to a psychiatrist whos also a therapist and after some sessions with him gave me an SSRI,lyrica and propranolol. Propranolol was fine but did nothing about my anxious thoughts. Lyrica tho.. was a blessing. Calmed down my anxiety and somehow my twitches or maybe is placebo about them but I feel like is doing something. Im on a SSRI for about 4 weeks now so is abit too early to say it fully works. But im done with Google and done with panic attacks. So far thats the biggest improvement.

Im not fully out of the rabbit hole but working my way out of it everyday. Sometimes I forget about the EMG, about how my neurologist said to forget about the big bad, how so many people here and on other forums are twitching ( alot of them because of the anxiety and alot from other benign reasons) and how to calm down my nervous system which probably is very affected after so many weeks of stress and panic.

My plan is to learn how to live with muscle twitching no matter how much they plan staying in my life, to make peace with my body and trust it again, to learn how to be normal again because I feel this experience changed me and scared me so bad that I need to remind myself how to get back to how I was before the twitches.

But maybe there is a good part. Made me finally take care of my anxiety searching for professional help, starting therapy, admitting I need meds to control my feelings and not giving up on myself.

Im only 3 months old in this forum but alot of people here helped me without even knowing with their positive posts and replies and truly helped me seeing a different perspective about muscle twitching. Alot of people live with it like is nothing and got used to it basically being part of their lives. I have great respect for those who are living with it for years and didnt stay in this miserable rabbit hole that alot of us once fell.

Dont let anxiety eat you alive cuz i did that mistake and some days i still do it but I get back to my ration thoughts much faster now that i was before. Everyday i work with myself and instead of googling symptoms i do research on how to heal mentally and to stabilize my nervous system. Invest your time in something that might actually help your twitching and of course talk with a specialist. Is the best thing you can do to remind yourself you are fine.

Thank you again to the positive twitchers that helps us, the anxious ones to be alittle more optimistic!

P.S. sorry for my english, im romanian :)

Been wondering if there is anyone from Romania here twitching? Ive been twitching for 3 months now ( EMG clear). I suffer for General anxiety, health anxiety and OCD.

This got me in the worst rabbit hole of my life and ive been feeling very lonely. I dont know how to battle this .. is so hard not to think the worst ..

( sorry for my english is not my main language) Ive been on 20mg Prozac for 1 week now. I might be a lucky one cuz I didnt get many side effects. First days were abit hard.. the anxiety was on maximum levels especially in the morning, first couple of hours after waking up were a nightmare. My thoughts were all over the place, I was on the edge of a panic attack. I dont feel hungry at all but i dont mind that cuz i need to lose some weight. My psychiatrist gave me 75mg Lyrica twice a day and it's been a blessing. From the first dose of Lyrica my anxiety went down, im in a good mood and I dont wake up with an adrenaline rush. So far im enjoying this ride and I hope it will get even better!

P.S. I am diagnosed with GAD(focused on health anxiety), OCD and PMDD

From all the anxiety symptoms I had over the years mine is now muscle twitching all over my body. Ive been dealing with them for 2 months and it ruins my life.. cant eat, cant sleep, cant think.. im in one of the most miserable times of my life🥲🥲🥲

Any successful stories here about healing or at least calming down you nervous system after months of stress, anxiety and panic?

I do breathing exercises, therapy sessions but doesnt last long on me. I find myself panicking over my symptoms, being anxious in general, shaking, thoughts are all over the place. And my nervous system is shot. I have muscle twitching all over my body ( this one is driving me crazy sometimes) , my heart is racing, my body especially hands are shaking and the adrenaline is running thru my body everyday.

Suntem o familie cu un copil de 5 ani si jumatate. Curand copilul va incepe scoala si am dori sa ne mutam. Stam in Bucuresti si avand in vedere ca trebuie sa ne hotaram in ce zona vom sta in urmatorii 10 ani ( cel putin, pentru ca nu as vrea sa o mutam la o alta scoala din momentul in care va incepe ) as dori cateva pareri.

Ne-am dori o casa pentru mai mult spatiu, cu o curte unde copilul se poate juca in voie dar in acelasi timp nu ma vad locuind pe langa Bucuresti ( stiu, stiu e ciudat dar aici m-am nascut si crescut si asa m am obisnuit). Aici vine problema cea mare. O casa in Bucuresti ajunge la preturi astronomice pe care nu ni le permitem si sotul mi a spus ca trebuie sa sacrificam una dintre dorintele noastre. Ori curtea ori zona in care ne dorim sa stam pentru ca nu le putem avea pe amandoua se pare.

Cum as putea sa combin utilul cu placutul? Bugetul ar fi undeva de 130.0000-140.000 euro.

Cei care stati pe langa Bucuresti, cum va descurcati cu aglomeratia atunci cand veniti in Bucuresti? Ma refer la zone precum Tunari, prelungirea Ghencea, Bragadiru,Domnesti. V-ati adaptat usor?

Ce ati alege, casa sau apartament? Aici ma refer evident si la costuri de intretinere, distante parcurse cu masina, aglomeratie, scoli bune, accesul la transportul in comun, etc.

Hey guys! I have muscle twitching widespread .. legs( especially both my calves), arms, abs, sometimes face,hands etc.. for almost 2 months. I went to a neurologist and said everything looks great, I insisted for an EMG. I did it and it was clear ( 1 mongh ago ).

Now how the hell I move on from this while my twitching happenes everyday especially in the first part of the day ( in the evening and night seems to calm down sometimes )? I cant stop being anxious and almost having panick attacks about it thinking something very bad is happening in my body​.

I suffer from anxiety and panick attacks and this damn twitching is making everything 100times worse.

How do you moved on or just ignored it and live your life? I feel like im crashing down and I cant function whenever I feel a twitch.. I have a daughter (5yo) and a husband and I need to be there for them and I feel like I cant anymore..

(32/f) How do you deal with your anxiety symptoms that lasts more than a month or even more months? Ive been to 2 doctors, got some tests done and they told im fine.I have a pretty common one that alot of people with anxiety and stress has. My muscles are dancing lol.. I had scares before but this one kinda messed me up in my head and im not the same as I was before the panick attacks because of this symptom. Is still going on ( so far it's been better in the last days) and I just cant deal with it. Drives me nuts and I cant stop thinking about all the worst case scenarios. 🥲🥲🥲🥲

(32yo/f) I am a stressed, panicked and anxious person in general but this got me going crazy. My muscle twitching It started after few days of stress and over a month later they didnt stop. Some days are better some days are not. They are wide spread it can be in my legs, my stomach,my hands or arms,face but very often in my legs especially calfs. My whole body is shaking, my heart is going crazy and i had couple of panick attacks because of it. Magnesium didnt help, L theanine helps abit but i dont know how to manage it when i feel them. I went to the neurologist he said everything looks good i passed the neurologic tests and i had an EMG that was clear. is possible they are from the adrenaline release? the panick? the anxiety? I did the awful thing to Google this and im living a hell since then. Anyone here experience this? How are you managing the moment when you feel them? I dont know why I cant trust the neurologist saying that i dont has that awful desease that im thinking about. I am going crazy right now ... Monday I am seeing for the first time a psychiatrist because i never treated my health anxiety or went to therapy because it was manageble but this time is out of control.

I am working on a camsite with low traffic sadly. I work there for 10 years and i made good money until recently. i heard about websites that could bring you pottential members helping you with advertising yourself. basically brings new people in your chatroom. Anyone ever used this kind of websites? Thank you!

i suffer for HA for years now but it got worse in the last years. recently i had a bad episode of anxiety and stress because of some events that happened in my family and after everything got better and i thought i can relax my muscles started to spams out of nowhere. Then some other bad events happened and i was super stressed and anxious and my muscles still had fasciculations.They are everywhere in my body from head to toe. No other symptoms than usual anxiety ones like body shake, heart beating fast,etc etc. I had an appointment with a neurologist and she said everything looks fine i got cleared from her after some neurologist tests she did on me. I didnt belive her so i got an EMG. Is clear as well. But in the back of my mind i cant stop thinking about it. Im having ashwagandha and magnesium now and i have good days when i barely feel then or have them but i have days when i feel them and i spiral again. i thought going to the doctor will give me some peace. How do you cope with that? Thank you!