Physical Symptoms Of Stress?

[jyl]

I'm curious if any of you experience physical symptoms of stress?

I'm thinking mostly occupational stress, but let's include all forms of stress. Chronic or transitory.

By physical symptoms, I'm imagining stomaches, headaches, hives, I'm not sure what else people get.

[Rich76_911s]

Canker Sores. Doesn't fail when I have a lot of stress, I get them. Should have a couple by the end of next week. Big exam coming up on June 5th.

[looneybin]

i have a hard time sleeping when i get stressed out

[stomachmonkey]

Oh boy. It can manifest itself in a variety of ways.

Too date I've experienced, pain in the boys, I have a varicocele on the right one that flares under stress.

I've had pain in my abdomen, starting on the left side moving down and thru the groin area.

One time the entire right side of my head went numb, ended up going for nuclear stress test and head CT. All clear.

Once started throwing PVC's so bad that I got up in the middle of the night and drove myself to the ER. After 4 hours there the Doc told me to give up the smokes, drink less coffee, drink more red wine and have more sex. Asked him for a scrip on the last part but he did not oblige.

My latest bout brought blurred vision, discomfort below my left rib cage and a general feeling of being constantly on edge.

[porsche4life]

Mostly sleep and stomach issues for me.

[peppy]

My bowels go nuts.

[911boost]

Stomach issues.

In college I used to get athletes foot from hell because of stress. It wasn't actually athletes foot, but had all the same symptons, it required a prescription medication to get rid of. It was freakin horrible.

[Burnin' oil]

Inability to walk.

[look 171]

Stroke. Had a very minor one a little over a year ago. The ER doc gave me sea sickness pills thinking it was something else. My wife fought him and got a MRI. They saw a tiny little bit of damage. I recovered fully in a couple of days. They found nothing wrong with me. I was in there for a week running test. Doc lean over and said, "It might be stress, we can't proof it, so take it easy. YOu are way too young to have this." I had just turned 42 3 months before that.

Why are you asking? Kitchen remod stressing you out? I have seen couples fly off the handle during work in their house. The major one exploded once, and they were seperated. They cooled down and we resume work almost 3 months later.

Jeff

[Zeke]

Your blood pressure will go up and stay up. The silent killer.

[Superman]

Stomach issues. Hyperventilating - feeling like I'm not getting enough oxygen when I am getting PLENTY. Difficulty sleeping, particularly difficulty staying asleep. Waking up way/too early and not being able to go back to sleep is a certain indication of anxiety. Lack of appetite. For food, and/or for sex. Inability to feel stuff, like thirst or fatigue. Short temper.

Those are the highlights. And of course, difficulty concentrating or staying focused.

[Christien]

Originally Posted by Rich76_911s

Canker Sores. Doesn't fail when I have a lot of stress, I get them. Should have a couple by the end of next week. Big exam coming up on June 5th.

Bingo. Me too. I've got 2 so bad and so far back that I thought it was strep throat. Feels like I'm swallowing nails.

[Gogar]

Chronic, compulsive masturbation.

[Noah930]

Canker sores and gout. This most recent gouty attack has been going on for 4 weeks, now.

TMI, Jeremy.

[jyl]

Interesting, a really wide range of reactions.

Mine

- chronic reaction is blood pressure, so I have been on BP meds for decades. BP started going up when I was a lawyer, despite being in great physical shape, <30 y.o, cut out salt (at the time). I took a year off working in late '90s, in 2 months I had lost 20 lbs and resting pulse had dropped 20 pts. Back to work, BP and pulse back up (absent the medication).

- acute reaction, in the last year or so, has been this ankle pain that my doc thinks is some sort of gout, anyway it responds to colchicine. Before that, there wasn't any consistent physical reaction. Normally on first glance you'd think I had no work stress, it is pretty suppressed, part of my job is to eliminate emotions and be dispassionate/calculating

I haven't started the kitchen. Don't expect that to be stressful, I DIY'd a kitchen before and while it was a PITA, there wasn't anything more stressful about it than fixing a car or painting a bedroom. Wife and I have very compatible tastes and anyway we agree the kitchen is my call. Some dispute over whether I can install a vintage ceiling-mount arm-mounted surgical lamp but that's just fluff.

[Talewinds]

Originally Posted by Christien

Bingo. Me too. I've got 2 so bad and so far back that I thought it was strep throat. Feels like I'm swallowing nails.

I get the same. I hate to whine about canker sores, but especially the ones toward the back, the absolutely relentless stabbing pain is agony. It's not so much the severity, it just NEVER ******* lets up.

[Talewinds]

Now you can't say *******?

What the fuch?

[Zeke]

Use alum from the spice aisle in the market for the sores. Gone in 1-2 days and no pain. I think having the sores compounds the stress, so it's good to know how to handle the symptoms.

Gout? Well, you know what causes that, so abstain.

[tabs]

Pain in left shoulder going down left arm...for quite awhile I thought it was my heart...but it was stress...

Staying up all night...sleeping on the sofa...

I would also jokingly say I write negative political and economic posts on the PARF. I would be writing on the PARF no matter what..I am a regular chatty cathy..this negativity about the deficit in the US goes back 30 years..

[Racerbvd]

Originally Posted by jyl

I'm curious if any of you experience physical symptoms of stress?

I'm thinking mostly occupational stress, but let's include all forms of stress. Chronic or transitory.

By physical symptoms, I'm imagining stomaches, headaches, hives, I'm not sure what else people get.

Read some of my health issue post...