If Its All Anxiety Explain

[emmie]

this, feeling pain one minute in a place, and not the next, some so severe that it can be like you are going to pass out or worse, then nothing in the same place, i had pain in my gums and roof of mouth just now whilst eating, you would think that i need some dental work, or a good look, now nothing, like i have no pain,
this has been like this for the best part of 18 months, bad back, bend can't do it, minutes later no problem, if its anxiety how does it work,
i have been told peripheral neuropathy was causing the pain in feet, legs, or most likely, but who knows. I am freaked out, there is no other way to explain this at all. I can understand real pain, i went through it with various illnesses like the pancreatitis, which was dire, but i don't understand this at all.

[emmie]

the way i described it to the doc was like being switched on and off like a light switch. feel one thing one minute and not the next.

[emmie]

where is the doc to throw his tuppence worth in -

[tonyav]

I'm sure he'll spot it in the morning, emmie.

[emmie]

so far i have had acute pain in left hand so bad i couldn't use it for a few minutes, pain so severe in palate, gums that i thought need to get it checked, now nothing. this is what it's been like. If anyone else has a clue, or doc looks in would appreciate some thoughts.

[Cloverjo]

Emmie, I'm not a doctor, but it does sound like anxiety to me. I can't explain how it works, but do suffer similar things to a certain extent. Not as bad as you but still there.
Are you being helped with your anxiety? Beta blockers might help.
Sqad might see this soon and be able to offer his thoughts.

[Old_Geezer]

No medical expert, but how you experience the signals from the nerves than cause you the pain is created within the neurons of your brain. Therefore it doesn't actually need to have the signal from the nerves to create it.

Under "normal" circumstances it won't generate the feeling without the signal, but it is clearly capable of doing so.

The sub-conscious mind is still a mystery, but it runs the equivalent of software background tasks, things the main programme (consciousness) simply rely on being done right and need not be aware of.

But somehow stress seems to be able to trigger inappropriate activity in the subconscious, so you can feel inappropriate pain. I doubt the exact mechanism on how stress does this is known yet but clearly it interferes with the evolved useful mechanisms.

[Robinia]

Emmie I think you said that, like me, you'd been diagnosed with fibromalgia, and although it can play a part I'm convinced anxiety isn't the cause of it all. Since May I've had a terrible flare up, I think it had been escalating all winter actually, and I've experienced the things you describe in this post and all of your previous ones...with a few weeks of IBS thrown in too. I get very down and exasperated but apart from a few drugs, which obviously don't do much or we'd all have been better years ago, there's not a lot to do but carry on...Try to have as many distractions as possible, do what you can when you can...and don't push it when you can't. I'm considering acupuncture...if I find any miracle cures I'll let you know.

[emmie]

still doesn't explain how i can do somethings one minute and not the next, and that pain signal happens in whatever area, then nothing.
this has been a long dragged out situation, and one that has brought me
low to out. pain signals in buttocks, legs, feet, on and on, that has not
been satisfactorily explained, except some form of peripheral neuropathy,
except that when it started first three years ago, which lasted a while, like being burnt across the back and then feet, i was essentially told it was nothing.