6 months of unexplained twitches throughout body, high WBC

Posted by berber19 @berber19, Oct 9, 2024

Hi all,
Am a 37 yo female healthy and work in healthcare.

6 months ago I woke up to heart palpitations. After a week of this, and then feeling “off” during one day, decided to go to urgent care. My ekg was way off and they sent me to ER. Initially they found nothing expect abnormal ekg, then I came back 4 hours later with worsening palpitations and my potassium was way low.

Cardiologist tests all normal.

After all this scare I stated having body twitches, initially with palpitations was like whole body was twitching, then turned to just little here and there but has been every day since then. At night one arm or both will go to sleep. Palpitations have resolved but these symptoms remain. Has kept me from sleeping well. Symptoms get worse around my period.

MRI today came back with normal results. Neurologist expected it would, but glad to have confirmation.

From the initial er visit my WBC was elevated around 12. And has hovered around there at each check up since. My pcp now suggesting hematology referral. Have been losing some more hair than normal past month or so too. But no pain and energy is generally ok.

Sound familiar to anyone.

Been so many guesses, post-Covid? Unknown cancer? Auto-immune? Allergy? Etc etc.

Working in healthcare sometimes has its disadvantages because you imagine yourself in every scenario you have seen. But my health anxiety is getting better with mindfulness.

Thanks

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Been having more twitches past couple weeks after they had been better. Still pretty random all over. Anxiety has been high thinking the worst, which doesn’t help sleep or twitching. Tongue swelling and weird symptoms of mouth with tingling lips continues. Have some follow ups coming up. Just feeling all the stress of trying to not look things up and worry but also wanting to look things up to rule out the worry. Tough cycle.

Did go for a run for first time in 8 months yesterday and that was a big win.

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@berber19

Been having more twitches past couple weeks after they had been better. Still pretty random all over. Anxiety has been high thinking the worst, which doesn’t help sleep or twitching. Tongue swelling and weird symptoms of mouth with tingling lips continues. Have some follow ups coming up. Just feeling all the stress of trying to not look things up and worry but also wanting to look things up to rule out the worry. Tough cycle.

Did go for a run for first time in 8 months yesterday and that was a big win.

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Working out seems to help me more than anything else for most of my issues. Talk therapy comes in second.

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