Can You Have Anxiety Symptoms On Just One Side Of The Body?

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Can you have anxiety symptoms, such as pressure, weakness, or numbness and tingling, on just one side of the body?

Since many medical conditions and medications can cause anxiety-like symptoms, we recommend discussing all new, changing, persistent, and returning symptoms with your doctor.

If your doctor attributes your symptoms solely to stress, including anxiety-caused stress, you can be confident there isn't a medical or medication cause.

Generally, doctors can easily determine the difference between symptoms of stress and symptoms caused by a medical condition or the side effects of medication.

However, since doctors are human, they aren't infallible. You might want to get a second or third opinion to raise your confidence level.

If all opinions agree, you can be confident that stress, including anxiety-caused stress, I s the sole cause of your symptoms. Then, you can confidently rule out a medical or medication cause, which can be confirming and reassuring.

Regarding your question, stress, including anxiety-caused stress, can cause symptoms of any type, number, intensity, duration, frequency, and at any time, as well as on or in any part of the body.

While most people have symptoms that affect many locations on the body, some get symptoms in only one spot or on only one side of the body.

Therefore, yes, you can have anxiety symptoms, such as pressure, weakness, or numbness and tingling (or any anxiety sensation or symptom) on just one side of the body or affect just one part of the body. This is common, too. We see this regularly with our website visitors, Recovery Support members, and therapy clients.

That said, don't be surprised if your symptoms change or migrate to different parts of the body over time. Since hyperstimulation (chronic stress) can cause the body to react erratically, it's common for symptoms to change and shift even though you've had a specific symptom set for a while.

As long as the body is even slightly hyperstimulated, it can act erratically. Consequently, expect anything, including symptoms that appear on only one side or only one spot on the body.