Health Anxiety - numbness/tingling

Hi,

I posted a few weeks ago and found helpful responses. I had started feeling odd numbness in my ankles and it triggered all kinds of crazy online googling which created a crazy panic attack, and spiralling anxiety. I'm type 1 diabetic so my fear is complications. So feeling any numbness/tingling scared me. I also am unemployed and money is hard now. I really tried to just not look online, distract myself, tried deep breathing, journaling. The symptoms haven't gone away. I did make an appointment with a neuro in a few weeks. My endocrinologist is on my s**t list now because I called him and he just said oh,yeah it's neuropathy and WITHOUT even examining me called in a script for neurontin. I was pretty worked up and scared and this didn't help. I am also breastfeeding my 14 month old son and my doc later told me AFTER i filled it ($$) that i can't take it. So I'm pretty upset with him at the moment... Now lately my back pain (previous issue - L4/L5 and L5/S1 bulging disks) has flared up and I had some sciatica too - cramps in calves, more pins/needles. So I'm googling even more (duh) and I just feel a mess of anxiety, panic and it's hard because I can't tell what is anxiety, what is real, and how much worry is normal and good. I do have reasons to worry - I'm diabetic, but I also have great control and it doesn't make sense to be neuropathy - my toes and fingers are fine. Anyway, just wanted to vent. Thanks for listening!!

I have very much numbness in my arms before panic attack which i never connected to anxiety but you gave me new insight.

When you have diabetes /lots of docs just think neurological stuff,but it might not be true in many cases .
But i have seen recently when i got burnt /cut accidently that i did not have much pain right away with both but sightly later which makes me wonder my tips of fingers have less sensation.

On occasions i have seen them turn blue too so i had my worries.
Going to neurologist soon might help ,but i am always wary of going to docs even if its important and that can cause long /short term problems as they get undiagnosed.
my family is the one who drags me dr office when needed ,i won't care much otherwise.
I get mad at them cause for problem they see ,i don't see eye to eye and we tend to disagree.
I am more passive in regards to going to docs and they say small stuff can become bigger if you tend to shy away.
anyways get it checked.check your BS daily if you can ,it helps,
good luck~~