FND, Neuropathy, or just Severe Anxiety Disorder?

Male / 33 / London, England

10 year illness, symptoms are as follows…

• 🦶 Feet (intense discomfort, hot, intense sweating, pins and needles/tingling, sometimes cold/cold sweats/numb toes/stab pain)

• 🧠 Brain (brain fog/poor cognitive function/poor attention span/lose track/lightheadedness/sometimes dizzy/feeling faint)

• 👁️ Eyes twitching most days

• 👄 Jaw feels tight/clenching some times

• 🫁/🫀Chest feels tight like I can’t take a really deep breath, heart sometimes feels iffy, heart rate is usually around 55bpm but when I visited my GP recently it was 48bpm

Also have Raynaud’s.

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10 years ago I started noticing symptoms. It was first noticeable in my feet. They would become unusually moist/wet very quickly despite me being very clean. I’d be fresh showered with fresh socks and shoes but it wouldn’t matter, sometimes as soon as I put them on they’re giving me intense symptoms. I have been changing my socks multiple times a day for years now, it has been so hard to deal with and makes me paranoid and anxious of smell. It ruined my uni experience and they just thought I didn’t want to turn up most of the time but I was living a hell.

Over the years I started to notice more issues like the lightheadedness and cognitive issues on top. It became a nightmare and I’ve tried to live a normal life but my social life and happiness/fun/hobbies went from a 10 to a 1.

I was first told it was fungal (feet) but it wasn’t. I was then told it was hyperhidrosis, but medication and treatment didn’t help. My next GP said they didn’t believe me. Since then I have been told it’s anxiety by most, or told they just don’t know what it is.

I’ve thought it was all sorts but after heart scans, thyroid, blood work, MRI, nerve tests in legs, tilt table… I am still none the wiser. I just have to cope with this while trying to get though work or social situations.

Please any help where to go from here would be greatly appreciated, thank you.