Posted by kpo2002 on June 1, 2002, at 17:57:19
In reply to Can anxiety cause memory and physical problems?, posted by bookgurl99 on May 19, 2002, at 16:05:25
I lived in blinding pain for a year and a half. I watched my whole life go away while I was plastered on the couch.
After 4 months I started to get migraine headaches.
After 6 months I started having blackouts.
After about 8 months the outer bones of my ankles and elbows became extremely sensitive to touching or even lightly bumping a hard surface.
After a year my left forearm, (the part where you might lean your arm on a desk),developed a 4-inch long patch of thickened, dried skin.
After 14 months my fingernails started to thin and my toenails began falling off.
After 14 months I had explosive diarrhea every day, all day long for 11 months straight.
After 18 months I was prescribed Ultram, and although I was out of blinding pain, I was still in horrific pain...Then came the rashes. Usually on the back of my hands, and fingers, but sometimes went up as far as my wrist. Sometime they were itchy, sometime they were painful, but sometime they looked just awful but didn't feel like anything.
Now it's been 4 1/2 years of pain for me now, and even though it's not anywhere as bad as it was I still have irritable bowel syndrome, tension headaches, rashes, sometimes welts on my abdomen and neck, eyelid twitches. You can tell that they are from stress because they occur immediately after a stressful event, and the stressful event can be something as simple as someone cutting you off in traffic.
Stress and anxiety can cause almost any physical or psychological symptoms.
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