Re: Stress, Life and Cortisol


Katie wrote:
> Thanks for posting this. Reading the lists of symptoms, it sounds like FMS!

Does, doesn't it? ;o)

> Jane, I really enjoy your posts, I don't post much myself, but I enjoy
> yours. You express it so well!

Thanks Katie. :o)
>
> But as for the symptoms described here... I have long felt that my FMS came
> from an overload of stress and an incapacity to "de-stress". I think I've
> mentioned here that I sometimes call it "permastress". Also, as you say,
> anything can stress me out. I find myself imagining the worst and
> nightmarish images come from nowhere. I wonder if this last symptom is
> caused by too many stress hormones in my system.

Well, I think it's kind of like a Catch 22, Katie. I'm not sure FMS
actually *comes* from stress, but I think it might be *activated* by
stress. Have you ever seen the movie "Osmosis Jones"?

Let's say our body was like a huge pinball machine with a bazillion
different doomahickies that could be rung by the ball as it whizzed
through the game. (Maybe God is playing the pinball game. ;o)

One of those whatzizts is the doomahickie in the brain that turns on
the Fibromyalgia marker. If that hoozit gets hit by the ball, you get
FM. From that point on throughout the game, that thingamagig would be
responsible for deciding how much cortisol should be dolled out by that
whatzizt down there called the adrenal gland.

ROFLMAO

IOW - we may be born with a gene that contains a marker for FM, but we
may never really develop the illness. Something happens that stresses
the body out so much, the FM marker gets turned on. Maybe something so
stressful happens that the immune system can't handle it at all and the
adrenals go nuts and decide to over-produce every single time a
stressor happens, no matter how small the stress is. When large
stresses happen - WHAMMO!!!

The stress doesn't CAUSE the FM, but it contributes to the symptoms and
maybe even makes the symptoms start in the first place.

>
> I think my weight gain is also connected to an over production of cortisol.
>
> I know that meditation and relaxation could help me a lot. I just have
> trouble "getting around to it".
>
> But anyway, thanks again for this information.

> Katie

Again, you're welcome Katie. And thanks for your compliment. I just
had a thought: You said I express it so well and then I go off into
some ramble about pinball games and whatzits and thingamagigs and
hoozits and such! LOL Sorry. <sheepish grin>

Take GOOD Care,

Jane
>

>
>
> "Janey Pooh" <janepooh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> a écrit dans le message de news:
> 1124022904.829109.141310@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Fibromyalgia and many many other conditions, syndromes - whatever you
> > want to call them - are severely distressed by stress. Diverticulitis,
> > IBS, Chronic Fatigue, and yes, temporal lobe epilepsy -- can ALL be
> > made much worse by STRESS.
> >
> > The reason stress causes us so many problems can be directly related to
> > Cortisol. Scientists aren't quite sure yet why stress causes us so
> > MUCH distress, but in the meantime, it behooves us all to know and
> > understand why this is. Knowing the truth about things can dispell the
> > demons, and make it easier to cope.
> >
> > This is an an article called Stress, Life and Cortisol. It explains
> > how and why Cortisol is produced by our Adrenal Glands when we feel one
> > of four types of stress - physical, emotional, chemical or thermal. It
> > then goes on to explain why over-production of cortisol affects us the
> > way it does, causing all these symptoms and making us so ill.
> >
> > http://www.theelementsofhealth.com/uploads/Stress-Cortisol.pdf.
> >
> > That is the PDF version. You need Adobe Acrobat or something to read
> > it. If you can't read it, go to this one - the html version:
> >
> > http://64.233.187.104/search?q=cache:FC0P2UxQLlMJ:www.theelementsofhealth.com/uploads/Stress-Cortisol.pdf+stress+affects+colitis+diverticulitis+brain+reactions&hl=en
> >
> > It's the simplest idea in the world and yet the most complicated thing
> > to DO - Get the stress OUT of your life and you will have less
> > symptoms. Do not add extra stresses, especially if they aren't an
> > important part of your life.
> >
> > For instance - Yes, money can be a problem and it is stressful trying
> > to cope with that. How to pay the rent, how to feed your children -
> > those are essential parts of your life and they can sometimes be quite
> > stressful. For those kinds of stresses, we need to learn how to cope
> > with them without letting them stress us out to the point of illness.
> >
> > But *newsgroups* are NOT essential parts of our lives. They are GOOD
> > parts of our lives when they are doing us good, but if we allow them to
> > stress us out and cause a cortisol overload that puts us in the
> > hospital -- are they WORTH it?
> >
> > Many other things that are not essential parts of our lives can cause
> > us stress - which causes our adrenal glands to produce cortisol, which
> > causes us to become ILL if our bodies are too weak to handle that
> > cortisol overload. Are they worth it?
> >
> > If we have become so overwrought by stress that our adrenal glands are
> > almost constantly producing cortisol - we will have fibro flares,
> > diverticulitis flares -- all KINDS of different things happen when
> > these hormones are raging within us. Ask yourself - is it worth it?
> >
> > We who have these conditions have a hard enough time dealing with the
> > cortisol that is produced for us just to *function*. Period. Daily
> > life produces too much stress for us. Everything we do causes our
> > adrenals to produce too much cortisol. Getting out of bed might be
> > seen by the body as a physical stress that requires extra cortisol
> > production. We're totally whacked, Man.
> >
> > We need to absolve ourselves of any Extra Stresses that we don't
> > require to *live* -- cuz all those Extra Stresses we place upon
> > ourselves could be what eventually kills us. And in the meantime, it's
> > causing extra symptoms I think we can all safely say we could do
> > without.
> >
> > End of Rant - though it absolved me of stress rather than causing more.
> > ;o)
> >
> > Take GOOD Care,
> >
> > Jane
> >

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