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Can anxiety/stress cause such symptoms?

User Profile: littleWillow7261
littleWillow7261 August 31st, 2021

I'm not sure if anxiety can affect you to this extent, which is why I'm curious. It's not the first time I feel symptoms of a fever on the inside but I am as cold as a corpse on the outside. It first happened when I was feeling anxious about my final exams; two days before going to write them, I began to feel really cold even though I was burning up on the inside. I had chills and a bit of nausea, but I didn't have a fever.


I was to find out that after I finished my finals the symptoms were gone. I thought I just made it up in my mind since I'm always being called dramatic or told I'm overreacting.


The second time has happened today. I've been dreading going back to school on wednesday since I also experince symptoms of social anxiety. I'm constantly worried I'll mess something up or do something stupid like the last couple of years to make others judge me. I'm also too useless to fill out a form to see a counsellor, and it worries me because I've been overthinking about the fact that I never signed up for physics 20. Where the internal fever came again was today when my wifi kicked me out and I reset my chromebook. It needed wifi to be set up again, but we couldn't fix the router. I began panicking thinking about what I was going to do if classes began the day after tomorrow.


Medication doesn't seem to help and I can't think of any breathing excercizes that can help me.


*if you managed to read it all I appreaciate you so much 😭

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User Profile: QuietMagic
QuietMagic August 31st, 2021

@littleWillow7261

Hi--sorry you've been feeling that way. 💙 I did some research and it looks like the fight-or-flight reaction associated with anxiety can cause some physical changes in the body that result in hot/cold sensations even in the absence of an actual fever.
https://www.calmclinic.com/anxiety/symptoms/body-temperature
https://www.calmclinic.com/anxiety/symptoms/causing-fever

Here are a couple resources I found that have some tips for coping with physical symptoms of anxiety. (Not specifically the temperature sensations though.)
https://www.helpingminds.com/anxiety-physical-symptoms
https://www.verywellmind.com/managing-the-physical-symptoms-of-panic-and-anxiety-2584080

User Profile: Highness420
Highness420 August 31st, 2021
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User Profile: blueRaspberries8753
blueRaspberries8753 September 1st, 2021

@Highness420

I am not the doctor and I have no right to advise anything on medical issues, but my own experience shows that stress can seriouslly affect the system and cause really any decease. So your main task is reduce this stress. As for your bodily temperature change I think you need to visit the doctor asap.

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