I know this is a bit old but just in case, if you haven’t figured out what’s going on yet you might want to look at histamine issues (either histamine intolerance or things like mast cell activation syndrome).

You described pretty much what happened to me. I was under a lot of stress (I ran three companies) but thought I had it under control until I started taking the birth control pill. Turns out the stress plus the hormone fluctuation from the pill increased all sorts of sensitivities I already had but were so minor I never even thought of consulting a physician. I’m not an anxious person by nature AT ALL (quite the contrary) but the anxiety was overwhelming. Turns out, it was the constant anaphylaxis that was creating the anxiety, my body constantly thinking that I was under threat.

It took a while to figure things out but now I’m back on track 🙂 My batteries get drained faster but even this is getting better.

In any case, whatever it is that you have, I know how hard it can be. You have no idea what’s going with your body and usually tests all come back normal and makes you feel like you are crazy. You aren’t. If I may recommend two books (they exist in audiobooks too, if you like me at the time you have trouble reading): You Are The Placebo & Mind Over Medicine. Those were game changers for me because they showed me that the body has a much better capacity for healing than I thought and that adopting a positive attitude and setting the intention to heal is half the battle (no, seriously, it may sound like woo-woo garbage but it’s science!) 😀

Good luck!

This was very confusing. I have a problem with stretchmarks. I swear the more I think about it the more I get. I’m 44yo, 5’8 and keep a steady weight of 126lbs. Just got some stretchmarks on the side of me leg and now it’s all I think about. Fear has overcome me that they’re gonna spread like wildfire. I’m setting myself up because I know how powerful the mind is. I can’t get the fear out of my head. Please help me!

Hi thank you for your comment.

Sending you healing light and strength.

From a mindbody perspective – the muscular, nerve, lymphatic tissue, joints, weakness and chronic pain affect the Cerebral Medulla of the brain. The stress connection is being too hard on oneself, or not loving and valuing yourself enough. (With legs the metaphor meaning can be to move forward in life/to climb through adversity perhaps.)

The core of not unconditionally loving yourself can go back to childhood and having a parent that you felt rejected, criticized, ignored, blamed or responsible for. (There can be more, but this is just to give you a sense that — whatever you perceived as a child can be linked to why you are overly hard on yourself today.) Scientific research is showing the body mirrors our thoughts and emotions.)

A life-changing book I recommend on the power of healing and to love yourself unconditionally is: Dying To Be Me.

Remarkable, remarkable story. It powerfully reveals what mindbody self-healing is about at the core.

You are Unconditionally Love now and forever. It is about returning the very truth and value of who you REALLY are. You are made of Love. XOX

Sounds like a great book!

Research on the mind body stress perspective show that the body can not lie and it expresses it’s stress through specific symptoms. A common flu can be overworking oneself and the body is going into heal and repair mode. When we say I am ‘sick’ … from a larger perspective we’d actually realize I am healing … I was under stress or I over did it and now my body is healing itself.

More serious issues have deep chronic patterns within the symptoms. For instance in anxiety people who grew up in an unstable or unpredictable environment with a parent they did not feel safe around, or if they had a parent that put incredibly high expectations on them and felt nothing they did was every good enough — this can lead to chronic anxiety later in life. (I see this as a repeating theme with my clients.)

A book to check out on how specific stress leads to chronic disease and illness in the body is META-Health Decoding Your Body’s Symptoms: https://www.amazon.com/META-Health-Decoding-your-bodys-intelligence-ebook/dp/B00AZP1GCG/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1494599910&sr=8-1-fkmr0&keywords=meta+health+decoding+the+body+symptoms

Hi Anonymous,

Reading this I am curious do you have back pain? Do you experience chronic tightness or stiffness along your spine? Curious — because if the nerves from your spinal cord to your bladder and large intestine are compromised in anyway (through impingements of the muscles and fascia or subluxations of the joints) this can affect your nervous system’s feedback to these elimination organs and effecting their function. From a meridian standpoint the Bladder Meridian runs along the spine as well, so if you have tightness along the musculature of your back this can interrupt that flow as well.

For more than 7 yrs I am having problem regarding my excretory system. Whenever I have to go for passing urine a sudden urge comes before like I can’t control it for long time as normal people can do when required and so have to immediately rush to washroom and also after going for urinating it takes some time to empty my bladder like may be 5-7 minutes with interrupted flow. Same is the case with defecation as a sudden uncontrollable urge comes before going to toilet so I can’t wait for even 5 minutes if necessary. Also I had couple of embarrassing situations while out of house regarding defecation many years back and now this both problems. So I can’t get out of my house due to this. I have had check ups and there is no prostate problem, no diabetes, no BP, no urethral problems, no kidney stones etc. But the Dr. have suggested for urodynamics test for urinary bladder problem but I can’t go for that test as it is very far away from my city where the test can be done. As a result of this I am unemployed since many years. Please can you suggest some treatment for this? Awaiting your reply. Thanks.

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