So lost please help

Hi I'm 15 and i have been having problems for the last 3 months and I'm so worrie and upset. Around December 8th I was just sitting around in my house and my hand felt like it was going numb. I just started shaking the feeling out and soon realized it wasn't going away. Soon the area below my knuckles and the right side of my arm below the elbow was stiff similar to a numbing sensation. I decided to wait it out a while and see If it went away. It didn't. I started panickig that night and went to my parents. They didn't think much of I and told me to go to sleep. I did the opposite. I walked around stressed out an crying because I was so scared. I finally fell asleep afew hours later. This continued in my arm for weeks. It soon started the same in my other arm and a little in my legs. All below knees and elbows. Durin this time I was crying almost all the time and I couldn't eat or sleep. My mom called the docot and he said it was probably the cold weather. I started feeling better and I went to the doctors and they took a blood test. The results came back normal and by that time I was feeling fine again. A few days later things went downhill. I got a cold and noticed whenever I went up or downstairs or put my head upside down m ear would get blocked. I popped my ears to make It go away but that just kept my right ear blocked. I didn't worry much then. Over this time it sTayed he same and I became stressed and depressed worse then last time. I cried everywhere, at school at home. I kept demanding to see doctors. No one was worried and that was aggravating. My docot kept telling me there was a little fluid behind that ear and it would take. While to go away: also, I should mention, the area around my right ear was numb. I went to a md360 and thT doctor checked my ears sad he saw a little fluid and put me on prednisone for 5 days. That seemed to help, the next week my ear wasn't really numb. What was wrong with my hearing though was that loud sounds just sounded dull to me. I finally got to see an ENT. I took a hearing test and had perfect hearing which upset me furher because I didn't hear or feel like I did. He told me I wasn't going deaf and that everything looked fine. I was a little better after that. Then a few weeks ago my right side of my face felt like it was stif and numb. It's been like this ever since. In front of my ear my eyebrow and eyelid my cheek and chin and right side of neck and tounge and above my ear and temple feel numb and stiff. I feel like my facial expression is off but it isn't. It basically feels like my right side of my face is swelling but it isn't. I had a CT scan last week and everything looked fine. Nothing was wrong they said. I have trouble with my ears still. It's like I can't pop them. When I tryto it just blocks them further until I let go of my nose and it feels the same again. Occasionally I will pop it and have a satisfying feeling in my ear like I unblocked it. But while it feels like that, it feels like there is a bubble loved in my eR and doesn't go away until I move my jaw. Which moves the bubble away, but blocks my ear again. I do have jaw problems. Ever since I got my braces my jaw pops and gets stuck often when I go to brush my teeth but these things only happen on the right side of my jaw. I dont know if any of this stuff s connected. Recently I have been getting really itchy feelings deep in my ears. I'm just so sick of this all. I someone tells me it's nothing or I'm probably just imagining this stuff again I feel like i'll explode. I WISH this was all in my head. But it's not. I just want help. I'm always worrying and no ones concerned. they don't know what I feel like. These problems are horrible.

girll

Hello and welcome to HealingWell. Glad you found us.

You have a fair amount of what sounds like health anxiety. Your Drs. have check you over very well. Can you trust in the Drs. to know that they have foud no major problems ?

It feels to me like you are hyperventilating when you become very anxious. Hyperventilation is quick, deep breaths. The decrease in circulating CO2 and constricted blood vessels in the brain often cause dizziness, faintness, tingling in the lips and hands/feet and headache, among other symptoms. These symptoms are usually preceded by anxiety or an emotional outburst. CO2 stands for carbon dioxide.

This may be the cause of the numbness you have been experiencing.

Please keep talking with your parents and remember I am not a physician. ((((((((((((Hugs)))))))))))))

Kitt

Your right, and it's not fun in the least, but I think that the bright side is that since you are so young, this will be easier to deal with. The sooner you can get help, the sooner you can turn your fear and anxiety into power and confidence!
Please talk to your parents about all of these concerns, maybe even show them what has been posted here, and get the help that you need.
Health anxiety is treatable. I've been there, but am so much better since going through therapy. (CBT) It helped me change my thinking into a positive, healthy process, and I am so relieved to be living with out (almost) all of the fear I used to have everyday
Good luck, and let us know how you're doing soon,
Scaredy Cat