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:please someone tell me they have had this and what the cause is as im :worrying myself sick 
Dear Gordon, sensation around my lips that would freak me out. I also mentioned recently that I would have a sensation on my scalp and forehead that felt like a bug was crawling on it but it wasn`t. I would get this sensation when mostly when anxious but also when I wasn`t. There is absolutely nothing dangerous about this sensation I think what is happening in your case is you have taken a innoucous symptom and have become very hypervigilant about it. The more attention you give this symptom the more likely it will stick around. When you find yourself obsessing about it, try to take your mind off of it by using diversions. Hyperventilating can also cause tingling and numbness, often times we don`t even realize that we are breathing improperly. It would help if you learned deep breathing and relaxation exercises, here is a link to them. http://panicdisorder.about.com/cs/shbreathing/ Take care Jackie ~*~It’s been a lifetime struggle for me to stop spending my lifetime struggling~*~
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Hi Gordy, I get the same odd tingles in my head, more like in the scalp, and in my extremities from time to time. Nothing physically wrong just a fluke thing that probably everyone gets from time to time but onlya anxiety patients would think it was something horrible. I’ve had these sensations off and on for years, and to date they haven’t caused me any harm, although then can be very annoying. Jess – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -Hello, Am not normally one for posting but have read this and the Agoraphobia groups for some years. The reason i writing is because i would like some oppinions on something that is really aggitating my panic attcks lately. First of ive been getting panic attacks for long enough now to know that strange tingly sensation around the head or elsewhere are quite common for us i hope. Thing is i started getting a numbness on the left side of my head every couple of weeks for a few months now. if your anything like me than this sort of thing makes you quite frantic and worry. Lately has turned into qa kinda itcht tingle in the same place which is really making me panic now. doctors more often than not put it down to side effects of a panic attack but i wondered what people here thought and if they have ever had anything simmilar. it can get worse if i think about it and worry, even makes me tingle from my left big toe all the way up my leg. but this is usually something i can get when very edgy anyway so i think im just exagerating the tingle/itch cause of the panicky state i get in over it. however the main tingle on the left side of my head is deffinitly not caused by a pa as ive gotten it when im quite relaxed. please someone tell me they have had this and what the cause is as im worrying myself sick Gordy
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." -Ambrose Redmoon
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I am also new here and a wee bit worried. I’ve noticed lately that no matter how tired I am, and cannot sleep on some nights, but what worries me more is I am conviced I am having a heart attack and If I go to sleep I will not wake up. Not every night, maybe once or twice a week. Take last night. I went to bed, and immediatley started to feel tingly in my fingers, and along my arms. I have high blood pressure (I know not dangerously high, not even needing treatment, but it’s on my mind…Doc says…) and can start to hear my heart beating in my right ear. But I now I become very frightened. I am rational enough to equate this to an anxiety attack, but I really do feel I’m going to die, get so tired eventually I feel I am accepting death. A scary thought. Is there any way a non-medical person could know whether he was really having a heart attack? I know if I could apply a simple test, it would help. I should say I have been a big drinker, worried myself about alchohol comsumption, I cut down drinking a lot and now start to have these attacks. Are they related? I don’t really drink a lot anymore but I still drink socially. In fact, I’m having a drink or two to see if it stops tonight, as I KNOW I will sleep, can’t afford another sleepless night! thanks Steve
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thanks for the reply. most of the day its not to bad but now and again it get through to me and i start getting myself in a state. not too bad but i just wish i knew what was causing it to start in the first place 
) was kinda hoping someone here might have had a simmilar problem once and could share the cause/remedy. Thanks for the kind words and they do explain accuratly how i react when panicked. Gordy
– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – please someone tell me they have had this and what the cause is as im worrying myself sick Gordy calm down. our nerves travail across just about every inch of our body and throughout it. The skin is a massive organ system. It has its own blood supply and nerves. The parasympathetic and sympathetic nervous systems act as the accelorator and the brake of our impulses (neurological impulses that is) when one has an overflow of catcholadrenergic chemcials (or go chemicals) your nerves fire more randomly and energetically-not enough brake and they keep going-your body is acting like a giant accelorator-so even if you don’t feel anxious or panicky your nerves are telling you otherwise-they may not be anxious or panicky either, but they are activated from any number of causes, ranging from diet to sleep or vague random neurological firings this energy goes spomewhere-for you it goes to the peripheral nerves on the surface of the skin near your scalp and head on the left side-so you effectively get the chills, or goosebumps without the goose flesh. by making it a catostrophic event you will not only have anxiety, but the tingles as well. Hyperventilation is one large contributing factor to this, you don’t have to be panting through your mouth to be hyperventilating, just taking short thoracic breaths rather then deeper diaphramatic ones-the tingles from breathing like this is simply an imbalance of oxygen and carbon dioxide-take a deep breath and hold it for 5-10 seconds depending on your total lung capacity and volume, and let out slowly-if the tingles stop even for a few minutes or stop within a few minutes after then this may be the cause. LM ps I get an icy cold sensation on my left cheek-it comes and goes. Most likely some changes in blood flow to that area based upon age, smoking etc….
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please someone tell me they have had this and what the cause is as im worrying myself sick
Gordy calm down. our nerves travail across just about every inch of our body and throughout it. The skin is a massive organ system. It has its own blood supply and nerves. The parasympathetic and sympathetic nervous systems act as the accelorator and the brake of our impulses (neurological impulses that is) when one has an overflow of catcholadrenergic chemcials (or go chemicals) your nerves fire more randomly and energetically-not enough brake and they keep going-your body is acting like a giant accelorator-so even if you don’t feel anxious or panicky your nerves are telling you otherwise-they may not be anxious or panicky either, but they are activated from any number of causes, ranging from diet to sleep or vague random neurological firings this energy goes spomewhere-for you it goes to the peripheral nerves on the surface of the skin near your scalp and head on the left side-so you effectively get the chills, or goosebumps without the goose flesh. by making it a catostrophic event you will not only have anxiety, but the tingles as well. Hyperventilation is one large contributing factor to this, you don’t have to be panting through your mouth to be hyperventilating, just taking short thoracic breaths rather then deeper diaphramatic ones-the tingles from breathing like this is simply an imbalance of oxygen and carbon dioxide-take a deep breath and hold it for 5-10 seconds depending on your total lung capacity and volume, and let out slowly-if the tingles stop even for a few minutes or stop within a few minutes after then this may be the cause. LM ps I get an icy cold sensation on my left cheek-it comes and goes. Most likely some changes in blood flow to that area based upon age, smoking etc….
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Hello, Am not normally one for posting but have read this and the Agoraphobia groups for some years. The reason i writing is because i would like some oppinions on something that is really aggitating my panic attcks lately. First of ive been getting panic attacks for long enough now to know that strange tingly sensation around the head or elsewhere are quite common for us i hope. Thing is i started getting a numbness on the left side of my head every couple of weeks for a few months now. if your anything like me than this sort of thing makes you quite frantic and worry. Lately has turned into qa kinda itcht tingle in the same place which is really making me panic now. doctors more often than not put it down to side effects of a panic attack but i wondered what people here thought and if they have ever had anything simmilar. it can get worse if i think about it and worry, even makes me tingle from my left big toe all the way up my leg. but this is usually something i can get when very edgy anyway so i think im just exagerating the tingle/itch cause of the panicky state i get in over it. however the main tingle on the left side of my head is deffinitly not caused by a pa as ive gotten it when im quite relaxed. please someone tell me they have had this and what the cause is as im worrying myself sick Gordy
