Hi to all! I just want to start off by saying that I'm sorry if this post turns into a novel, but I'm about at my whits end and I need somewhere to turn! I'm a 31 year old male and I will start from about 5 months ago when my sister got married. She got married in September and I got REALLY drunk at the reception. I was drunk enough as to where I had a tough time standing up. My wife didn't drink that night and got us home where I immediatly took off my tux and passed out on the bed. I slept for a couple of hours and woke up with the urge to go to the bathroom. I went to get up out of bed and realized that I was still really drunk. I have a big dog and he sleeps on my side of the bed. I went to put my feet down on the ground, realized he was there, stumbled over him and fell to the ground. Not thinking anything of it, I dusted my self off, did my business and went back to bed. The next week at work I noticed that I had a tremble in my fingers. It was weird because I could usually stop them from trembling when concentrating or changing their postion. The first thing that came to my mind was that I had MS, Parkinsons disease or ALS. Fast forward a couple of weeks. I managed to pick up a nasty sinus infection and felt like absolute crap. I went to the doctors to get some meds for the infection, and here's where everything went down hill. Before the doctor looked at me, the nurse weighed me and checked my height (as they usually do). When she checked my weight I noticed I had lost 10 lbs. and hadn't even known it. I got my meds and off I went. Well that weekend I didn't do much of anything except lay around and watch t.v. due to my sinus' feeling so bad. I have internet access on my phone and starting checking out different things. One of the dumbest things I did was type in "weight loss with sinus infection". I will repeat that last statement....ONE OF THE DUMBEST THINGS I DID! The first result that came up was that that was a typical symptom of HIV. I immediatly began to freak out. I mean freak out like I never had in my life. I got to thinking about the possibilty of having HIV and it seemed plausable. I had been in a realtionship 11 years earlier with a girl who was VERY premiscuous to say the least. I didn't know about her indiscrections untill after we broke up. I began asking everyone I knew if it was possible for me to have HIV and they told me that it wasn't, since it had been 11 years and I had had no symptoms or indications pryor to this. People telling me this did not help at all. I started to have anxiety issues big time. I was only sleeping 2 or 3 hrs. at a time, wasn't eating( all in all I lost 20 lbs.), my bowel and urinary moevements had changed and I couldn't sit still for anything. I finally went to my doctor and told him about my worries and he told me we was pretty sure I was safe. This still didn't help. I continued to freak out and have anxiety issues. I eventually went and seen another doctor who was a female and I told her what was going on. She also assured me that I really had nothing to worry about since it had been so long, but said the only way to be 100% sure about this was to take a blood test. I asked her again if she was sure that I was safe and she said yes, but wanted me to take the test to ease my mind. I declined the test, but she said she wanted to prescribe me something for my sever anxitey. She perscribed me ativan, and told me to take it as needed. Well, to put things shortly, her conversation helped for a little while but I was right back to where I was before. Before I left her office she set me up with another doctor for a month later to check back in on my anxiety. So, at the beginning of November I went for my check up and the doctor told me that he could see I still was dealing with anxiety and asked how everything was going. I told him things were better, but not where they should be. He also told me that I had not much to worry about in terms of HIV, but also wanted me to take a blood test to make sure. I asked him about taking a CBC test and he told me it would be good to see how my bloodwork looked. He also talked me into having an HIV test done with it. The next day I came in and had the blood drawn and they would have the results in about 24 hrs. That was the longest 24 hrs. of my life. I got a phone call from the doctor the next day and they told me everything was good, but my potassium level had come back a little high. After hearing that what did I do?????? I came right home and jumped on the computer and looked up "high potassium levels." The first thing that came back was this usually means you have some kind of disfunction in your kindeys. Again, I began to totally freak out. The doctor wanted me to retest in a week for my potassium and told me that he thought the high test result was due to the test itself. I went back a week later and got retested. The results came back and it turns out the doctor was right. My potassium levels were normal. This helped relieve my stress for a while, untill I noticed a heavy feeling in my left leg. I again started thinking about having MS, Parkinsons or ALS. I again started asking people about the possibility of me having any of these diseases and they told me that once again it was all in my head. By this point, my wife of 9 years was fed up with me and brought up the possibility of her leaving me. The anxiety was tearing my life apart. I set up an appointment with a chiropractor, and he said he had found the reason why my leg was feeling heavy. Also, I was having issues with my forearms feeling tight, and my fingers were trembeling from time to time. He assured me that all of these symptoms had to do with a super tight SI joint in my lower back. He said he was studying neuorology also and said he was sure that was what was causing all of this. I began treatment and things were going ok. To be honest, I don't know if it was helping or not because all I could think of was having the above mentioned diseseases. I had to stop getting treatments from him due to me having to work alot of overtime. My last treatment was right after thanksgiving. In the almost 2 months since then my symptoms are still there, and some have gotten worse and now I have some new ones. My fingers still tremble and now I've started to get muscle twitches everywhere. Last night my queadricep in my left leg (the leg that feels heavy) spasmd for about 2 hrs. and continued to do so when I laid down in bed. I got up today to go to work and from my elbow down to the tip of my ring and pinkie finger in my right hand were tingling. I now have an "electrical" pulse in the big toe of my left foot. My forearms still tighten up. I have to mention also that I have not noticed any weakness in my left leg. In fact I'm still able to jump and run and even play soccer on it. Sometimes the back of my legs (both) will hurt...it's kind of like a gripping pain that will last for about 10-20 seconds then go away for a few minutes then come back. I went to another chiropractor on this past wednesday and he said that the heaviness in leg was due to a knotted up SI joint in my lower back, the same diagnosis as my other chiropractor. But he said that the muscle twitches and spasms were unrealted and probably due to me being dehydrated. My anxiety level is no where near it was a couple of months ago, but it's still there. I still think alot about having MS, Parkinsons, or ALS. When I start thinking about having any of these I start to get that anxiety feeling in my stomach again. With the 2 different diagnosis from my chiros., what do you guys think of all of this? Obviously I have some anxiety issues, but do you think my fear of having any of these diseases are possible? Or do you think that my anxiety is going full force and I just don't realize it? I have not taken any anxiety medication for around 3 months now. Should I go back and see my doc and ask for some more meds? I'm at the end of my rope and really need some advice. Thank you for reading this book and taking the time to respond.