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Offline MylesMom08

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Pretty cool! Please read: meaning of hypochondriac :)
« on: June 14, 2011, 09:33:16 PM »
So i seen my acupuncturist today, and she told me something very neat.

Most anxiety suffers have pain under there ribs, am I right???  :yes: i know because my left rib hurt and set off my anxiety full blast.

In medicines (eastern practice) Hypochondriasis = pain under ribs. Hence the term, most pain under the ribs cannot be seen by the eye. (Anxiety caused pain)

Therefor, the term hypochondriac was formed. A hypochondriac suffers from anxiety, without anxiety, you wouldnt be a hypochondriac.


PS: SO WHY do doctors call us hypochondriacs when hypochondriasis is REAL!! pretty cool tho.. lol fun fact of the day hypos!!   :happy0151:
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Re: Pretty cool! Please read: meaning of hypochondriac :)
« Reply #1 on: June 14, 2011, 11:31:28 PM »
Pain under my left rib is what really set my HA off the last time, I was convinced I had pancreatic cancer
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Re: Pretty cool! Please read: meaning of hypochondriac :)
« Reply #2 on: June 15, 2011, 12:57:27 AM »
I sometimes have pain in the ribs.  It comes and goes, and never stays.  I never get too worried over it, I usually think "Oh, there is another weird symptom again".  I don't think mine is caused simply by anxiety, but rather other issues such as having a very sensitive body and other issues that affect my joints including having hypermobile joints.  I've always been very flexible since childhood and it runs in the family.  Turns out its not such a great thing and is starting to cause me aches and pains as I age. 
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Re: Pretty cool! Please read: meaning of hypochondriac :)
« Reply #3 on: June 15, 2011, 04:36:43 AM »
I sometimes have pain in the ribs.  It comes and goes, and never stays.  I never get too worried over it, I usually think "Oh, there is another weird symptom again".  I don't think mine is caused simply by anxiety, but rather other issues such as having a very sensitive body and other issues that affect my joints including having hypermobile joints.  I've always been very flexible since childhood and it runs in the family.  Turns out its not such a great thing and is starting to cause me aches and pains as I age.

believe it or not having hyper-flexible joints is a genetic precursor to anxiety disorder, weird i know but i'm also "double-jointed" and i have serious anxiety issues
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Re: Pretty cool! Please read: meaning of hypochondriac :)
« Reply #4 on: June 15, 2011, 05:03:14 AM »
I sometimes have pain in the ribs.  It comes and goes, and never stays.  I never get too worried over it, I usually think "Oh, there is another weird symptom again".  I don't think mine is caused simply by anxiety, but rather other issues such as having a very sensitive body and other issues that affect my joints including having hypermobile joints.  I've always been very flexible since childhood and it runs in the family.  Turns out its not such a great thing and is starting to cause me aches and pains as I age.

believe it or not having hyper-flexible joints is a genetic precursor to anxiety disorder, weird i know but i'm also "double-jointed" and i have serious anxiety issues

Interesting.  I don't doubt you, but where did you get that information?  I'm just curious about the connection and relationship.

I know of one condition that has both anxiety and hybermobile joints as symptoms so it would seem they are related in that case and have a connection.  But anxiety and loose and flexible joints seem to be totally different aspects of the body so I'm curious about the connection.   

Being flexible and double jointed was great for ballet class and impressing my 5th grade class with my "hitchhikers thumb"... lol.. but it caused me major problems when I started doing heavy lifting and jogging.  Eventually my joints and spine told me, "no more!"   :P

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