Shining, I am quite sorry to hear that! I do hope that your current job in secondary education is fulfilling in other ways for you! I do hear plenty about this kind of thing, makes me a little nervous to be pursuing teaching myself. But it's something I've been wanting to pursue for a while. Anyway, thank you for sharing your story with me. Makes me feel a little better about the way I've been feeling lately. I can't tell you how many diseases I've "diagnosed" myself in the past few weeks, certainly not helped by my current job. Stomach pains have become possible bowel perforations, headaches have become possible aneurysms, leg pains have become DVT...not good.

As an update, though, I did actually see a doctor today. Yesterday, I started having twitching in my one leg that went on almost constantly for several hours, and it scared me. My boyfriend had been urging me to go all along, and I've been meaning to establish myself as a patient at a new practice, so I took the opportunity. I actually called earlier today and they squeezed me right in. Anyway, as it turns out the twitching may be anxiety but it may also be due to antibiotics I recently took. I just finished up a course of Flagyl for a C. diff. infection, and the onset of most of my physical muscle symptoms (and even my high anxiety) seemed to correlate with beginning the medication. It turns out that Flagyl can cause peripheral neuropathy in the form of numbness, pins and needles, weakness, and apparently muscle twitches. Not a common side effect by any means, but still possible. He tested my strength and my reflexes, which were apparently all okay. So he seemed to be pretty confident that it may be due to the medication, and that it should subside when my nerves recuperate. *knock wood*. He did tell me I should come back if the symptoms don't subside, though. I guess that is the only part that still leaves me feeling somewhat nervous. He did say a range of things can cause that, from nutrient deficiencies to thyroid problems to undiagnosed Lyme's disease. Obviously my main fear was muscular disease or motor neuron disease. It still is in the back of my mind, unfortunately, because there was no definitive tests performed to prove otherwise.

Going to the doctor did help give at least some piece of mind, though.