Pins and Needles, Jolts, internal tremors, Muscle Spasms, weakness

Hey i just wanted to share my symptoms and progress here, in case anyone goes through similar.

It’s been difficult trying to pin down the cause of my symptoms and I wonder if maybe there’s multiple causes.

My symptoms started after some time of being very active, high energy and difficulty sleeping. I got pins and needles all over my body, which is something I experienced mildly and temporarily in the past, but this time it was severe and it’s lasted months, and seems worse at night. I was also getting jolts and spasms all over, accompanied with ear itching and stomach tightness, pain and constipation. I also had anxiety, depression and difficulty breathing.

At first doctors prescribed me nerve medications that did nothing, tested me for everything (even my mri came back normal recently apparently but I want to get a second opinion about my results) and then diagnosed me with anxiety, saying that anxiety can cause those symptoms.

But then my condition worsened and I began getting internal tremors sand became very weak and fatigued.

Due to error on their behalf it took weeks before they finally realized the numbers on my test results were deficient in a few vitamins (b12 and vitamin D) and iron. And I was now anemic. I’m now seeing a naturopath who has had me take high levels of these vitamins for a month, plus folate, because he speculated my folate was also low. He also has been making me take electrolytes daily, and making sure to eat regularly (and healthier).
He said it can take a long time to see progress, but I kind of doubt that as although my symptoms are improving somewhat after 3 weeks, they’re still bad sometimes. (Now they seem to randomly alternate to some days vanishing and some days being bad, which perhaps signifies recovery after all idk).

But There are a few other possibilities/ patterns I’ve noticed:

- Due to the weird ear itching I thought maybe it’s an allergic reaction. Maybe a food allergy could even cause my vitamin deficiencies. I’m waiting on a scope, and in the meantime I cut out gluten which used to be a known sensitivity for me. I also stopped using oils on my skin (despite having dry skin) because that was a known sensitivity in the past as well. And to be honest, even though it’s been only a few days of cutting out those possible allergens, I actually have noticed even more progress but still not 100%.

- I wonder if constipation is somehow causing a toxin buildup or putting pressure on a nerve or something. This could be related also to food sensitivity or allergy Perhaps. I’ve noticed my symptoms gets worse when I’m constipated and seems better after enemas. Could also be abdominal muscle trigger points causing disharmony.

- Even physiotherapists and doctors don’t know about trigger points, it’s a relatively new discovery. Muscle knots can actually cause a whole host of physical ailments rather than just pain. For example muscles in the neck can cause virtigo, chronic respiratory symptoms, blurry vision etc.
The deep spinal muscles tend to refer pain to the spine, and are often misdiagnosed as spine or disc issues, when it’s just a tight muscle that is pulling a vertebrae out of place, and as a result they found it can cause parasthesia.
I also have this issue (at least I’m really hoping it’s muscular and not the spine itself) along with muscle pain in my hips, psoas and abdominals. Doctors refused to x ray my spine saying it’s impossible for it to cause all over body symptoms (it would only cause localized symptoms like in the legs). So maybe it’s just a weird coincidence. But regardless I’m going to do regular massage on the area to see if it helps (after one day no progress yet so I may have to also visit a chiropractor to get the vertebrae back in place as per the instructions in the trigger point therapy manual.
I also had virtigo due to neck muscle issues. (Doctors disagreed it was caused by trigger points, but I know my vertigo was brought on after neck exercises). But they say virtigo can also be caused by low b12.

- Also, the day before my symptoms started I did abdominal exercises that I hadn’t done in ages. I believe this was a huge source of my difficulty breathing and stomach tightness and anxiety because my abdominal muscles got so angry after. Evidently being so out of shape. Also, one day during yoga I noticed my back pain vanished after massaging painful spots in the abdominal muscles, and after that massage my stomach tightness went away too.

So There’s a whole lot going on and it’s likely all connected.

My anxiety and depression were at first thought to be causing my issues but my naturopath instead believed they were a symptom of my deficiencies. But during this doctors prescribed me Mirtazapine, which I used sporadically to sleep through bad nights and I noticed it made me even more depressed and irritable the next day so I’ve stopped that medication and thankfully for the past week I’ve had no anxiety, for weeks I’ve been able to breathe ok etc.

Good thing my internal tremors have gotten better, I only notice them now with anemia symptoms if i over exert myself too much. So there really could be more than one thing wrong with me.
Like, I imagine since I was deficient in a few things I might also be deficient in other things for example and then there’s trying to figure out why. In my case it’s likely just because I was highly active and skipping meals too frequently (also not eating very healthy a lot) but idk it’s not like I was underweight or starving. So that’s why doctors didn’t want to test me for deficiencies at first.