| Stress is a prevalent ailment in today's society. With | | | | an affect on your nervous system, your skin, bones |
| so many things going on, we sometimes don't know | | | | and even your organs. Having too much stress, |
| how to slow down. Work and school pile up with | | | | illness, sick headaches just makes you feel literally in |
| errands and engagements. The list is endless. The | | | | pain. Along with the muscle pain, stress can make |
| ultimate price paid by trying to keep up with too | | | | your stomach a mess. Results can be diarrhea, |
| much is our bodies and minds. Our muscles ache, our | | | | nausea, and can even lead to painful ulcers. |
| heads hurt, we can't sleep, we can't eat or eat too | | | | Stress can make cold symptoms show up because it |
| much, stress, illness, sick headaches are the result. | | | | also attacks your immune system. When you system |
| We all are familiar with stress in our lives and when | | | | is not strong, it is easy to pick up germs and have |
| we recognize it, we should be trying to do something | | | | them affect you more strongly than if you were not |
| about it. Let's look at how stress makes us sick first. | | | | under stress. With your immune system low, you run |
| Stress can be a contributor to circulatory diseases | | | | the risk of contracting more serious illnesses such as |
| such as cardiac arrest, coronary heart disease and | | | | HIV, herpes, and cancer, just to name a few. |
| strokes. Stress increases blood pressure and | | | | The stress, illness, sick feelings that people have |
| constricts blood vessels, it can cause cholesterol | | | | leads to 75% to 90% of visits to the primary care |
| levels to rise and speed up blood clotting in your | | | | doctors. Physicians many times prescribe medications |
| body. Stress has made its way to the platform with | | | | to help people deal with the stress in their lives. If |
| smoking, alcohol, being overweight and not exercising | | | | the medication works, then some or most of the |
| as a major risk factor in heart disease. | | | | symptoms from stress may disappear. However, if |
| Stress actually makes you hurt. Your muscles | | | | you miss your medication or come off of it, you may |
| contract when you are tense and this can lead to | | | | be worse than you were before you started taking |
| spasms and cramps. It can also lead to achy muscles | | | | it. A doctor can assist you with other stress-relieving |
| in you neck and back. The muscle tension can have | | | | activities in combination with your medication. |