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Posted by PBizzle (Member # 11463) on :
 
Just wondering...

Does anyone have a problem with trying to sit or stand still?

I don't know if it's related to anxiety or not, but I can't sit still. I always have to be doing something, like tapping my foot or finger or bouncing my knee.

I know it seems weird, but I have never had this problem until after having Lyme Disease.

Perhaps it's just stress?
 

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Posted by Lymetoo (Member # 743) on :
 
Maybe like a mild OCD thing??
 

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Posted by lymeladyinNY (Member # 10235) on :
 
I was just reading that bartonella can cause restlessness.
 

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Posted by LisaS (Member # 10581) on :
 
I have this. I don't notice it as much as others do. I've been told I appear nervous, even when I'm not. I guess when I'm sittng I'm fidgety. When I'm standing I have to keep movig or else I start to feel faint. Is this the same as what you get?
 

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Posted by tailz (Member # 10014) on :
 
My jitters seem to come reliably at peak cell phone usage hours. You might want to look into getting a gaussmeter and then start paying attention to when your anxiety and jitters seem to worsen - what you are doing and what the levels are in your home when this happens. The ELF levels flucuate, and I found this to be my problem.
 

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Posted by trueblue (Member # 7348) on :
 
I am queen of fidgets! I can't sit or stand still. Too uncomfortable so keep moving.

If I watch TV get up every commercial for something anything. In between I alternate from sitting up to laying on one side and then the other, all in the time for one segment of a network show.

I have found for sometime any kind of movement lessens the pain. (or makes me less aware of it). In the worst throws rocking and/or whimpering seem to help.


I hope it dies down for all of us.
 

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Posted by charlie (Member # 25) on :
 
....nothing wrong with it, I'm wired...I've always been wired. I sit and shake my foot like a teenager though I'm retirement age.

pacing is good exercise anyway. just enjoy it.

Charlie
 

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Posted by bejoy (Member # 11129) on :
 
I used to not be able to still because if I did I'd fall asleep. I tend to stand in the kitchen next to the table, while my kids sit and eat their dinner.

Sometimes the sense of restlessness for me is the increased adrenalin and cortisol from my body trying to deal with the stress of being sick and tired.
 

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Posted by Lymetoo (Member # 743) on :
 

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Originally posted by trueblue:
I have found for sometime any kind of movement lessens the pain. (or makes me less aware of it).

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I did that for YEARS. Didn't realize it was because of the pain I was having. For many years, it was low level pain....which escalated with time.

Now I'm much more still when I sit. I have to switch legs continually during a sermon, however. That is pretty "still" sitting!!!
 

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Posted by Marcie (Member # 10070) on :
 
When my babesia got real bad I had such a nervous problem. I felt nervous 24 hours a day

for no reason at all. I would bite and grind my teeth, and had bad dry mouth. It is under

control now, but from time to time I will get that feeling back again. One of my worst

annoying symptoms.
 

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Posted by lymednva (Member # 9098) on :
 
When I was still working and my symptoms were ramping way up anxiety was one of the worst problems for me.

I couldn't sit still. Sitting through faculty meetings was almost impossible. I was always moving, fidgeting.

As for the faint feeling, LisaS said:

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When I'm standing I have to keep moving or else I start to feel faint.

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