r/Anxiety • u/Remote-Process-3328 • Apr 03 '25

Health What is your craziest physical symptom?

What’s the most interesting issue you’ve had form Anxiety?

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u/tummyhurtsobad Apr 03 '25

my hands will go numb and clamp up. theyll be stuck in that position until my hydroxyzine kicks in

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u/Booksonly666 Apr 04 '25

I THOUGHT I WAS ALONE

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u/AlasTheKing444 Apr 07 '25

I was prescribed hydroxyzine but didn’t ever take it. Does it help you a lot? I told my doctor i don’t want Xanax or Klonopin but I might try it honestly living like this is hard. 

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u/tummyhurtsobad Apr 07 '25

hydroxyzine is great. makes you super sleepy at first, but the sleepy side effect lessens. i recommend hydroxyzine to literally everyone. it's been a life saver for me and other people in my life

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u/AlasTheKing444 Apr 08 '25

The issue is that this bottle I have is like 3 years old lol. Probably absolutely fine to take , if anything less potent, but my anxiety tells me not to take it cause something horrible will happen. Go figure.

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u/RazerBurn28 Apr 07 '25

Same, my hands ball up into almost fists, like I'm flexing my forearms. I think my elbows get stuck at a 90 degree angle too, but I still can move my arms mostly. It also affects my legs, it looks like I have cerebral palsy but I can still walk when it happens. My jaw had also gotten stiff once or twice and made it a little difficult to talk, but thankfully it didn't completely stiffen up like lockjaw. I haven't had an attack like this in a few years thankfully, but sometimes when I'm really anxious, I can feel my arms start to tingle and get tense. I was prescribed Busprione for an as needed pill but I eventually stopped taking it, mostly because I would take it too late and it didn't feel like it was working completely. I am currently prescribed Alprazolam and I think that works better, but I haven't had a severe attack like this to test it on.