Do you feel things that aren’t there?
Yeah its happened
Yup but it’s just my shadow self. I can pretty much control them now.
Not since I’ve been medicated.
Only when unmedicated
Almost constantly, yea
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I learned here that anal tactile hallucinations are a thing.
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Same. 1515151515
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Yes. I can hear and feel insects crawling up my spine and into my brain. Thankfully being medicated means i dont freak out from it.
Yes I do. And it doesn’t bother me.
Have you thought about switching meds?
I’m not on meds.
I see. I hope the hallucinations aren’t too bothersome for you.
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I’m fortunate my tactiles are mostly tolerable.
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Yes, maybe but all of my symptoms may be something else.
TLDR, trying to figure out if I have tactile/somatic hallucinations or maybe all of my symptoms that I thought were psychotic can be explained by severe anxiety triggering conversion disorder.
First, I don’t have a SZ dx, my dx is bp1 with psychotic features and I have cyclical psychosis (or at least was told that 15-16 years ago and it has seemed to have stuck). Since my last unmedicated psychotic break that started in November and finally was put into remission in February I had 3 or 4 mild breakthroughs. I thought I was getting mildly psychotic for a week to 10 days each time while medicated. Long story short, my pdoc thought the AP (Rexulti) wasn’t working well enough and put me on Latuda, which made me suicidal. I was dried out for 2 weeks and kept telling myself at all waking hours “you don’t hear voices”. I believe I wasn’t hearing them but my tinnitus was out a very intense level and it made it difficult to function. I thought about the similarities I had between the main psychotic episode I had and all the smaller, milder breakthroughs I had and I came up with this. First my hearing changes, instead of tunnel vision I get tunnel hearing. My hearing gets very acute but focused. I can hear a mouse fart 100 yards away. I have this ability to focus on weird sounds like a creak in my house that will distract me and cause me to focus on it for quite some time. This is what I believe opens the door for me to actually start hearing voices. Then my head feels full and stuffy. Almost like a bad sinus infection and my own voice sounds weird. TInnitus starts up and gets really loud. Somtimes the tinnitus chages to voices. I can still breathe well through my nose and Sudafed doesn’t help but I still end up taking it to the point where it interferes with my sleep. I try navage, popping my ears,etc. nothing gives me releif. Eventually my head feels large and puffy. I swear I can touch it and feel how large it is, like it’s a large, heavy pumpkin on my shoulders. I even check myself in the mirror, sometimes I even suspect something is wrong with the mirror since I know my head is large. Is this a trick mirror. I might get a little dizzy, light headed as well. I get very confused for a few days before and continuing after for a few days when I get a little better. I can’t put thoughts in the proper order. I get lost in familiar places and don’t have a good concept of space and time. This was common with all of my recent episodes that happened last year. Now I also have TMJ which could be a physical cause messing with my inner ears. This could be anxiety causing me to grind my teeth, affecting my TMJ (a lot to explain why) or could be conversion disorder, all of it, including voices, etc. in my case. I no longer think this was psychosis I was experiencing unless someone else can say they have felt similar. This went on for months last year and each time since while medicated for 6-10 days each time. I am back on a low dose of Rexulti and yes it did improve a little but maybe it helped treat anxiety that was so bad that I was unaware of? I thought Alice in wonderland syndrome but that is usually short-lived and has a physical explanation.
I’ve also felt poking. Usually my lower legs but sometimes on my flanks but it isn’t a constant day in/day out for a week or longer.
Oh how awful, @Zoe.
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Thanks SkinnyMe 
it was scary.
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