Back pain

[watervole]

Does it make sense if I say that I know my back is hurting becasue I'm feeling jittery?

I've had a couple of bouts of back pain recently, but some days it subsides to a low grade pain that I don't really notice that much.

However, I notice when I start getting edgy and jittery. Most times when I get jittery there's an obvious reason, but right now, I'm pretty okay about life. I had a good weekend. I had a great day yesterday (grey wagtails, two kinds of orchids and a friend raising a really cute baby blackbird). So when I start feeling jittery after that, all I need to do is to run a hand up my spine - sure enough, there's the sore spot.

I'd always know that feeling tense/stressed made my back hurt (muscle tension I presume) but I only recently became aware that it linked the other way. My son gave me a back massage the other week and half-way through it, there was a moment when I could literally feel the jitters dropping away from me.

Comments

[mistraltoes.livejournal.com]

The human body is an odd thing. I can only tell I'm hot by the fact that I've got a headache. It's the heat that gives me the headache, of course, but I don't feel the heat, just the headache. And the women in my family know where we are in our cycle by the way our eyeballs twitch. Life is just bizarre, sometimes.

[cdybedahl.livejournal.com]

Stress does lots of odd things to the human body, few of which are adequately explored. Even in the two years I've been seeing doctors for stress problems, I've been able to see the state of the art advance.

[bugshaw.livejournal.com]

It's like part of the brain takes the pain to sit in a chill-out room, where it won't disturb anyone. Then, when the rest of the brain needs to marshal its workforce to do something, one of its bits is still off sitting with the pain; the remaining parts aren't enough to deal with what they want to, and get stressed and jittery. You just don't feel quite "with it" when you have chronic pain.