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Can anxiety cause your muscles to be weak, even when not in an acute(panic attack) spell, or can it cause it at all?

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Dr. Johanna Fricke answered

Specializes in Pediatrics - Developmental and Behavioral

Anxiety Disorders : may cause a subjective feeling of weakness. Patients with Conversion Disorder can have paralysis & other neurological symproms in the absence of medical disease. Objective neurological findings of decreased muscle tone/strength require investigation for problems in the Central Nervous System, at the junction of peripheral nerves & muscles, in muscles themselves &/or from a systemic illness.

Answered 12/3/2015

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