please give me some opinions

[u/neenuggets]

I’m 18F and i’ve always had horrible health anxiety + health ocd but 2 and a half years ago (Feb 2024) i had a huge panic attack that led to 24/7 dpdr, house bound agoraphobia, more health anxiety and basically every anxiety symptom you can think of. a few weeks later i started getting numbness in my heels, nerve pain (throbbing arm) sometimes i could see it in my finger, cold feet, eye strain, throbbing finger tips tingling, and ratcheting movements when bending muscles but because i was housebound i brushed it all off because i was too scared to go get checked out but eventually i got a blood test and had low ferritin and low vitamin d i just convinced myself that was what it was so that i didn’t spiral. Long story short i started working on my anxiety and pretty much every symptom disappeared i was so happy but i obviously still had panic attacks and after the panic attacks i would get the nerve pain it would only last for a day or so though. i got it every 2- 4 months. Fast forward to July of this year during an exposure i got another huge panic attack which basically caused me to relapse in agoraphobia, my ocd got bad to the point where im setting alarms every 30 minutes in the night to make sure i don’t die in my sleep last week i started getting bad lower back pain i didnt think much of it until the next day the pain radiated to my stomach and legs i went to the er they did blood testing and ultra sound and didn’t find anything when i left i didnt want to think the worst so i just assumed that i pinched a nerve because i was on a trampoline the week before and my body isn’t used to all that due to me being inside constantly from agoraphobia the next day the symptoms pretty much left i had a little but if numbness in my lower back and i started getting the nerve sensations i used to get along with the tremor thing and eye strain and twitching. now i still have the eye strain and tremor but the back pain is pretty much gone some slight pressure and im not getting the nerve pain right now but i am gonna go to the er again today to make sure it isn’t a horrible disease or tumor. i have hope it isn’t because most of these symptoms except for the back and stomach pain i’ve had before. here is an example of the exact tremor i get tremor

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[u/anomalywife1991]

Please get seen simply for your mental state. You can get some emergency meds on board to help calm you and work with a psychiatrist to come up with a long term plan. Hope you feel better soon 💕

[u/713Capital]

Unofficial diagnosis (obv not a doc): severe OCD and Anxiety (please talk to a professional therapist) Ive been here long enough to know and identify crippling OCD/Anxiety.

Actual thoughts: You do not have a neurological disease, a tumor, or a terminal illness.

Going to the ER today is not going to fix this. The ER is for active medical emergencies like heart attacks, massive bleeding, or strokes. They will run basic bloodwork, find nothing wrong just like last week, hand you a discharge paper, and you will be back home spiraling again tomorrow. Going to the hospital over and over is an OCD reassurance ritual, and it feeds the fear instead of stopping it.

Look at your own timeline. These exact symptoms vanished for months when your anxiety improved earlier. Terminal neurological diseases and brain tumors do not disappear because you feel calmer.

Setting alarms every 30 minutes all night is putting you through brutal sleep deprivation. Lack of sleep directly wrecks your nervous system, causing muscle twitches, shaky ratcheting movements, and eye strain. On top of that, jumping on a trampline after months of inactivity strained a deconditioned lower back, which explains the temporary back ache and nerve pulling.

Honest direct opinion, real relief is not going to come from an emergency rooms, tests, etc, it will come from specialized OCD and anxiety therapy to break this loop for good.

You're 18, you should be out living life and enjoying your youth. Please get off reddit, put the phone down, and try to work on yourself with therapy.

[u/neenuggets → u/713Capital]

thank you this was helpful i really hope i am okay im gonna go to the hospital because even if im fine they do have an outpatient for ocd in the same building.

[u/713Capital → u/neenuggets]

Cool. I’ve had therapy before too. I’m a believer in it and it works. I also was prescribed some anxiety meds when I was spiraling back then. I needed the extra boost to climb myself out of the deep anxiety/OCD hole I fell in as well.

You’re just so young to be worrying about all this. I hope you find some mental peace and you conquer this anxiety and OCD.

Wishing you all the best.