Anxiety sucks

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So I'm sure many here can relate to it... the big annoyance that is anxiety. I was diagnosed with generalized anxiety when I was in secondary school and since then it has mainly latched onto trying to make me think I have some serious disease or condition, that's the main problem with it and it has been at its worst this past week.

Been getting some pains in my calf area, both even... was more worse on the right but now seems worse on the left and of course It gets me worried into thinking I have DVT... went to the doctors and he looked at it and all but he was pretty sure I didn't have it and so did not do any tests. I do have flat feet, short tendons in my lower legs and problems with my hips so that is likely to be the symptom causer I guess but it's just never been this vicious.

But for real my anxiety has picked up this ball and thrown it out the park giving me the pain symptoms and warmth symptom even, anxiety has also contributed to chest pain, weakness, tingly sensations and all... and right now I have mild pain in my left calf... just what I needed to round this one off. Sometimes I just want to remove my lower legs and not have to worry on it, but of course that's silly.

This week has just been such a stranger to me and I hope this all just ends soon so I can return to absolute normality.

Anyone else have problems with anxiety and get scared they might have some kind of bad illness?

I had bad anxiety before I started taking the med Buspar. I screwed up my 1st two relationships because I had thoughts in my head that bad things were going on that probably weren't which gave me panic attacks & I got controlling as a result. Buspar is specially for anxiety & not a benzodiazepine. Like antidepressants it needs to be taken regularly but it's not an antidepressant. It can be taken with antidepressants & other psych meds. Most docs & psychs should be willing to prescribe it. I don't have any side-effects but some others do but they'll go away if you quit taking it. I would suggest staying on it for abit even if you notice side-effects incase they go away on their own.

I have financial anxiety, health anxiety, existential anxiety about how phuqed up this country is, and I fear further disability and eventual homelessness. no pill or potion can fix this, at best such can only defer the inevitable dawning of ultimate horror.

I have anxiety so when it gets bad, it affects me mentally and emotionally. It doesn't give me psychical symptoms often. Instead I have behavior and I had a hard time functioning and it just gives me the inability to handle stress and I am more prone it. Plus others around me suffer because I am and it affects others around me. My anxiety has been so bad before I would feel compulsions to harm so back when we had a puppy who wouldn't quit peeing in the house, I always had violent thoughts about harming the thing and drowning him in our pond and making it look like an accident like he had wandered in it and drowned. TBH I might have done it if he didn't die from slipping on some ice and hitting the moving car.