Can stress cause pain?

Answer 1

Stress can manifest itself in so many ways it's ridiculous. So many people these days poo-poo the idea of learning relaxation techniques, but they are an invaluable tool for surviving our modern, insane world.
I am an excellent example of what stress can do to a person - I've been suffering severe post-natal depression, bordering on psychosis, for over four years. My digestive system is buggered, I get random pains all the time, I can't sleep, I have no patience, I'm suffering adrenal exhaustion, my memory is kaput, and the list goes on.
Besides relaxation, there are many minerals, vitamins and herbs that can greatly assist your body in dealing with stress, as well as exercise.

Answer 2

Absolutely. Stress can cause pain all over the body. As the body stresses the muscles actually contract like they are being used for a work out. Then after the stressor is gone what is left is the pain from the muscles being contracted. The best thing I have found for stress pain is Naproxin Sodium or OTC Aleve. Take 2 tabs every 12 hours and that should help your pain. Hope this helps.

Answer 3

stress can cause back pain neck pain leg pain. It can also cause headaches upset stomach.

Stress can be defined as the sum of physical and mental responses to an unacceptable disparity between real or imagined personal experience and personal expectations. By this definition, stress is a response which includes both physical and mental components.

Mental responses to stress include adaptive (good) stress, anxiety, and depression. Where stress enhances function (physical or mental) it may be considered good stress. However, if stress persists and is of excessive degree, it eventually leads to a need for resolution, which may lead either to anxious (escape) or depressive (withdrawal) behavior.

One may further appreciate from that definition that stress may derive from imagined experiences such as frightening movies. Further, the fulcrum of stress response is the presence of disparity between experience (real or imagined) and personal expectations. A person living in a fashion consistent with personally-accepted expectations has no stress even if the conditions might be interpreted as adverse from some outside perspective — rural people may live in comparative poverty, and yet be unstressed if there is sufficiency according to their expectations. Finally, when there is chronic disparity between experience and expectations, stress may be relieved by acceptance. However, since acceptance is rarely complete except in children, stress resolution by this approach is also rarely complete. It has been said that stress is often a reaction to a crisis of predictability, that the mind is solely an instrument of prediction, and that the body may be divided into a vegetative process and an integrative process.

Answer 4

Yes- headaches, stomach pain, nausea, back pain, tightness of jaws, chest pains. Those are the things that I have experienced in times of stress. Many people become ill when stressed. You may want to see a Dr. if you are having many symptoms or feel as though stress is interfering with your life.

Answer 5

I agree that you need to see a cardiologist, if for no other reason than to reassure you. It could be as simple as a pinched nerve. Heavy exertions, such as you would have during an asthma attack or heavy exercise, cause you to breathe very deeply, expanding the rib cage further than normal. A nerve in the chest can get pinched in the process causing severe sharp pain. If left untreated, this pain will eventually dull, or change in some other way. If a cardiologist gives you a clean bill of health, try seeing a chiropractor. While their specialty is the spine, your ribs are connected to your spine and an adjustment could help with your pain. Make sure you take your x-rays in with you, as well as your medical history. (If you can't take your x-rays, they'll be able to take more.) Make sure you're stretching daily and getting enough exercise, as well as drinking lots of water and following your doctor's reccommendations for your asthma. That way, if it IS stress, you're working to combat it. Good luck!

Answer 6

Yes, stress can cause pain. When we are stressed, our body releases stress hormones which can actually circulate throughout our body parts to signal or induce pain.

There is also psychogenic pain, where a person can feel pain, usually for secondary gain.

Answer 7

absolutely. Stress is a trigger for alot of things. Pain and weight gain being the list toppers. Try some deep breathing/ meditation. Or, better yet, try exercising. Cardio is great for stress. Go for a walk or run if you can every day that you can.

Answer 8

Stress can cause lots of pain....muscle pain, headaches, etc. It can literally cause you to be physically ill.

Answer 9

yes for me stress causes me to have headaches and stomach pains.

Answer 10

stress cause many thing such as dizzy, fatigue,pain changes in eating habits, even the mood swing, trouble sleeping the ist goes on ans on, take a breather and try to relaxed you might need agood night sleep.