Can stress give you pain?

[TheOriginalFAB]

I am very stressed at the moment and now have a stitch like pain in my side. It hurts all down my back as well and I am so tired I could cry. I will get a break tomorrow when I have to go to hospital.

I didn't sleep very well waking up at least 4 times. Not sure what the sleep monitor will make of that.

I have had all my meds except the steroids which I am waiting for DH to come up to take.

Not a great start to the morning with having to tell DD off which set my breathing off funny and then trapping the cat in the door when trying to stop ds2 seeing dd without knickers on as he was being silly about it.

DH is taking the kids to his parents for the day and then working from home. I am confined to bed and not allowed to do anything.

I have made a list of things I want to do once the kids are back to school which will help me lose weight and get fitter as that can only help my asthma. This has scared me a lot and I will not take it seriously as I have been in denial about having asthma.

Thanks for asking.

So sorry to hear you're not feeling well.
I was going to post and agree that stress can cause pain...dd's behaviour does that.
Please look after yourself.

I am not finding it easy to stay in bed but dh might have to go to work tomorrow and I will have the kids on my own so I know I need to rest.

I tried to stay in bed as much as possible as even walking downstairs wore me out. Then the kids came home and DD threw a massive strop over a wobbly tooth and wouldn't let us do anything or help her and she wouldn't do what we suggested. DH tried to tell her I wasn't to be stressed and she just talked over him and stropped about her tooth. She is in bed now complaining she can't sleep and when I offered warm milk she said it wouldn't help.

I am an allergy practitioner and a homeopath and have helped people to eliminate their asthma symptoms and come off inhalers, and get to the root cause of their stress. Tension and stress cause hormones to go haywire and leads to many physical symptoms but it really is possible to relieve all this with natural methods! Unfortunately steroids can compromise your immune system even more and ultimately make things worse.
I know it's difficult to find time to relax when you have small children but it is possible to break the vicious circle.
Vitamin D3 and B vits are very helpful, and you need to make sure you are not deficient in magnesium.

Hi

We went away yesterday for the night and we are back now.

Friday night I slept 2-4am and got up at 4.45. Didn't get to bed until 11.30pm last night but slept until 7.30am which was a shock as it was a hotel bed.

My breathing is still not back to normal but dh has said we need to start taking better care of ourselves. The children and animals get everything they need and we just make do.

It is hard to put yourself first and be a bit selfish when you have small children but twice they have caused me to have a severe asthma attack and with the other health problems I have I need to take better care of myself.

I have to sort it out as I was unable to look after my children for 2 days and I am relieved that DH is off tomorrow. I have done too much for my children and put them first too much so naturally they are selfish.

I'm sorry if my previous comment caused offence and led people to believe I was advertising my services. That's not how I operate - I was genuinely trying to offer help and advice and think it is very sad that current attitudes lead people to think that knowledge can't be spread without some gain. I just happen to be very passionate and knowledgeable about health and the fact that I do it for a living is immaterial, and I only mentioned what I do to show that my comments have validity and to help people to see that there is a possibility of getting better without harmful side effects. As you can see, I didn't give any contact details or links. I won't bother trying to help in future!

hi FAB - hope you're feeling a bit better.
This may or may not be useful or relevant to you, because I don't know much about asthma but I do suffer from hyperventilation, which I believe has the similarity of not being able to breathe out sufficiently and therefore making you feel like you can't breathe in enough (but I could be wrong and I do know that asthma is way more complex than that).

Anyway. Have been having bad hyperventilation problems again recently and my osteopath recommended going without a bra for a few days, to reduce the constriction on my chest - and it has helped loads! I'm still doing it a bit (lots of yawning and sighing) but nothing like as much, and the blockage feelings have reduced enormously.

So, just in case it might help, try getting rid of your bra for a few days. :)

Oh, I would love too but my breasts are an F! The day after I was nebulised I did go braless as I stayed in bed mostly in just a vest and pants. I love taking my bra off at night

Thanks for the suggestion.

I'm wearing a mildly supportive vest but am only a C-D cup (depending on the bra ) so yes, I can see it would be easier for me than for you. Maybe if you don't have to go out you could try letting it all hang loose for a bit?

I am going to get changed later once the kids are in bed and I will go braless then. Poor DH .