Could muscle twitching indicate anxiety?

Hi, my husband has muscle twitching very often. It usually happens when he’s feeling sad and depressed. It lasts for half an hour, and then it disappears. Could muscle twitching indicate anxiety?

Hi, it’s exactly what has been happening to me. I have a history of general anxiety, which is closely related to my muscle twitching. Every time when I have an anxiety attack, I feel numbness in my legs and arms, and muscle twitching in my face. It is a terrible feeling when I don’t have any control over my own body. My cheek is twitching at least for twenty minutes, and it makes me even more scared and depressed. Beside medicines for anxiety, I’m taking magnesium because I heard it reduces the muscle twitching. I had many sleepless nights because of this problem, so I decided to try with a music therapy. My friend recommended it to me. She said that there is a special music for anxiety, which will relax me and help me sleep.

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Many of the chronic fatigue symptoms are similar to that of flu (muscle aches, headache, fatigue and muscle twitching). It can be related to general anxiety determined by extra work or just by being too worried about everyday life. But when it is combined with depession it becomes very dangerous and need special attention and medication. Chronic Fatigue Information Site recommends treatments for relieving the symptoms, like acupuncture, massage therapy or chiropractic treatment. Anyway, you have to know for sure what determined this symptoms. Take care!

I found it quite interesting that anxiety can cause numbness and weakness. I noticed that I experience numbness , tingling, and twitching in my legs, arms, face when I am under stress. I have been diagnosed with fibromyalgia but I question the diagnoses. I recently in the past month have been experiencing pain in my thumb joints and fingers then muscle twitching in my left thumb. The twitching has gotten worst after work and after I started to swim. It is almost all the time but did experience the same twitching in my face when I was stressed out. I also noticed it after I started to use the computer on a daily basis. I was diagnosed with Carpal Tunnel in my right hand years ago but I never experienced twitching in it. Go figure-stress can cause alot of problems along with anxiety attacks which I have suffered from in past two years . One day at a time!

Take calcium supplement and there is a big chance that the twitching will go away, try it for a week, it worked for me, after years of wondering what the hell was wrong with me i met this doctor and he told me i needed more calcium and 3 days later i improved.

I have experienced the same twitching due to anxiety. It is quite normal and nothing to be worried about. In fact dwelling on it makes it worst- but during times of anxiety it is hard to not dwell on it. I am learning how to control my own thoughts and telling myself that I am fine. Our words and thoughts have a lot of power over our physical body.

My muscle twitches always coincide with with high anxiety and feelings of depression. You should ask him to see a doctor (psychiatrist). If you don't have health insurance you might be surprised that a visit to a psychiatrist only costs around $250 for an initial visit and $90 for follow ups every three months. Also, the medications (generic ones) cost around $10-15 for a three month supply at grocery stores. I take citalopram (celexa), and am very happy with it. I find the side effects to be less bothersome over time. For me, I had no idea of the cost of these visits and medications, I just figured it wasn't a financial option without insurance - this delayed me from getting treatment. Hope this helps.