does stress hurt?

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01 Oct 2007, 12:25 pm

Does anyone have this problem? Every time i am really stressed out, my shoulders automatically tighten and are hard to the touch. It actually causes me to have chest pains at times (not a heart attack) It also affects my neck and arms. my neck sometimes gets so stiff that it pops when i merely turn my head. I also lose feeling in my arms (not just the left) from all the muscle tension. Has anyone else had that problem?

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01 Oct 2007, 12:33 pm

Somtimes my eye retina's can hurt... and sometimes I get a headache...

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01 Oct 2007, 12:34 pm

i only really get a feeling that there are things burrowing in my fingertips, but it's pretty nasty

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01 Oct 2007, 1:22 pm

Yeah I've had chest pains and headaches from over-thinking things - it's a right pain in the neck (almost literally).

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01 Oct 2007, 1:31 pm

yeah when i'm stressful usually get bad migrains and chest pains alot.

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01 Oct 2007, 2:43 pm

It's to be expected, since there is a lot of muscle tension typically associated with stress. I have back and neck pain during times of high stress.

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01 Oct 2007, 3:07 pm

This is called hypertension directly related to stress and anxiety. You may want to try something like Jacobson progressive muscular technique/yoga.

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01 Oct 2007, 4:41 pm

Similar things, but not this, quite.

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01 Oct 2007, 5:42 pm

yeah, yoga's not a bad idea...

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01 Oct 2007, 6:39 pm

Yoga rules.

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01 Oct 2007, 10:15 pm

I sometimes get mild throbs of pain in the middle of my palms when I'm feeling impatient or something is annoying/angering me. It makes me want to clench my fists. It's strange.

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01 Oct 2007, 11:26 pm

marshall wrote:

I sometimes get mild throbs of pain in the middle of my palms when I'm feeling impatient or something is annoying/angering me. It makes me want to clench my fists. It's strange.

I get this exactly same feeling when stressed

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02 Oct 2007, 1:51 am

Brittany2907 wrote:

marshall wrote:

I sometimes get mild throbs of pain in the middle of my palms when I'm feeling impatient or something is annoying/angering me. It makes me want to clench my fists. It's strange.

I get this exactly same feeling when stressed

Yea, I guess it is stress. I feel irritable and impatient when I'm under stress.

Do you ever get an itchy feeling inside your wrists too? Sometimes I get this steady feeling of a vague itch inside my left wrist and up my forearm. I guess it's on the right too, but the feeling is more intense on the left. It's not like a skin itch, it's deep inside. It's both uncomfortable and difficult to describe. It's when I have this itchy feeling that I start to feel throbs of pain.

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