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Anxiety???????? Please help!

About 6 weeks ago my wife started having some kind of attack. She said her whole body was numb and started tingling. within a few minutes her whole body cramped up. she was literally paralyzed, she couldnt move and was in great pain. we called an ambulance and got her to the emergancy room and they gave her muscle relaxers and did a ct scan and bloodwork. everything came back normal. they said it was hyperventilation syndrome. 2 weeks later we were back in the emergency room for the same thing except this time her breathing was more normal and they said its anxiety. so we went to her family doctor and they scheduled her for an EEG. that came back normal. then last week we were in the ER again, same thing happened, whole body cramped up extreme pain except this time she said she felt the left side of her face and body go numb first then the other side followed. she has had some memory loss as to what happens,  but the Drs. still insist its anxiety. she had another attack yesterday and we stayed at home through it instead of the hospital and her breathing was completly normal but her body was completly paralyzed/cramped up, and she felt numb and tingly all over. they say its anxiety but her anxiety doesnt go up until she cramps up and goes all tingly. we have no idea what to do. someone please help!!
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1764145 tn?1315975628
I'm very sorry to hear about your wifes conditions, she may have some sort of a paralysis disorder followed by a minor complex/partial seizure disorder, I know you had mentioned she had an EEG and that came back normal, but I also suggest to you that she gets an MRI as well which gives a full result of the brain and what may be triggering the waves to make her body go paralyzed as well as memory loss. I have complex/ partial seizures and the same symptoms occur with me, I start shaking my body stiffs up, I start hyperventilating, then I black out at some points and I get tingly at my finger tips for the most part, I wish you all the best and hope doctors can find answers for her.
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Thank you for responding. She has had two ekg's, an eeg and a ct scan. All that and bloodwork came back fine. But when she has these attacks she is not hyperventalating, her body goes numb first. The docs keep saying its hyperventalation syndrome caused by anxiety which makes her blow off all her carbon dioxide and thats why her body cramps up. But really she goes numb and cramps up and then starts hyperventalating/breathing heavy because she scared and does not know what is going on.
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723959 tn?1314744225
Anxiety can cause so many different  symptoms, and effect people different. I have had them all, except I have Never been paralyzed while or after the attack. I have had all the tingleing and numbness, even burning sensation threw my whole body. ANd she had a lot of tests done and they came back normal. I think you said she had a ekg, but I would see a cardiologist to do a ultra-sound on her heart to make sure there is nothing missed. Because a ekg in my opnion does not show much. How does she act when going thorugh the attacks? And when this happens is she crying and having trouble breathing? She could be cutting off her own oxygen by hyperventilating. If your oxygen is low, it could cause the muscle cramps, numbness, tingling.
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