Hi
Does anyone else experience all over muscle pain, and painful skin?
Slim
All over muscle pain all the time, went for a massage the other day and she was like omg you have so many knots in your back/neck I literally don't know what to do with you. I have horrendous back pain too, apparently tre/somatic release will help with this.
I used to have all over muscle or other aches. Health workers used to react the way they did with Eyessoblue (omg you're so tense, there are so many knots...).
Funny I was just thinking about this recently. I used to have back ache all the time and I was always told it was because my back was too weak, I should be doing more exercise and strengthening it, if I had better stomach muscles, my back wouldn't ache :blahblahblah: :blahblahblah: :blahblahblah: Now I'm a rotund couch potato with far fewer muscles and no back-ache! News flash to FOO and proponents of exercise: back ache was caused by traumatic memories!
I can't remember painful skin though. If there's no physical medical cause for it, then I'd just say ime more or less any physical symptom may be caused by CPTSD.
I'm constantly stiff in my shoulders and neck area which causes a lot of pain. I don't even dare to go to a specialist because when my partner massages me I usually start to cry because it's such a nice relief haha.
A hot hot shower relaxes my shoulders, only thing I found that helps. Started working out yesterday because it's supposed to help against shoulder and back pains, but reading what Blueberry said it makes me wanna stay a couch potato!
Never felt pain on the skin though. I can be very cold or loose feeling instead.
Yes, I have some too. When I'm tense from a flashback, and I finally relax. . . often my muscles start aching. I guess the stress was too much for my body, huh? I've done some body work for this, and well, I just let myself rest.
Yes, Slim.
All over muscle pain and painful skin. For me, it is like a painful itch, which can be anywhere on the body, so I scratch it and that is even more painful. I have a real problem with clothing touching my body. So I never wear anything that isn't soft and stretchy, but even that doesn't deal with the issue entirely.
For years now, I have had foot pain that mimics plantar fascitis, achilles tendinitis and mortons neuroma. I don't know if I really, physically have these or it just feels like it. Either way, it's a real nuisance.
I think Blueberry is right to say that almost any symptoms can be caused by cptsd. I think this is where cptsd sort of overlaps with fybromyalgia. For me, I feel sure that the fybromyalgia-like symptoms are a result of nervous system damage from trauma.
So sad that we all suffer in these very physical ways. As if we didn't have enough to deal with.
Thx all. Yes my skin cant cope with any rough clothing. Even thinking about it makes me shudder.
Slim
i'm in this mix as well. i believe a lot of my muscle pain is from emotions that have been absorbed rather than expressed. when i've gotten massages in the past 10 yrs. or so, i would cry with the pain, but would also have emotions such as hate, anger, and sadness come up, like i was feeling them for the first time, and they were all connected to past people, relationships, and/or situation in my life.
i was diagnosed with fibromyalgia last year, but, i too believe it's a neurological backlash from trauma. lower back pain has been a constant for more years than i can remember. tension throughout my body is consistently there unless i remember and consciously relax those muscles - not only in neck and shoulders, but legs, hands, even my head.
I used to experience pain in my elbow tendons and the soles of my feet until discovering the works of Dr. John Sarno. But I still experience a weird "hot"/"tingly" feeling in my skin, even after reading his works. I used to fear that this feeling was a precursor to "spontaneous human combustion", but even after disproving the existence of that phenomenon (or rather, proving it as due to a deadly combination of alcohol and cigarettes, and not spontaneous at all), I still fear that the feeling will overcome and kill me. It's been happening less often with meditaiton and therapy, but whenever it does happen, all I can do is "comfort" myself with the fact that I'm going to die at some point no matter what.
So spontaneous human combustion is no longer a 'thing'?
Didn't know that, I frequently think that with the way my life has gone I will either be struck by lightning on a sunny day or spontaneously combust.
Guess combustion is off the menu!
I have chronic pain but after 25 years I've only just twigged it could be trauma related.
I have chronic pain in many areas and occasionally have skin symptoms like its on fire for no apparent reason. I feel as if my trauma is lodged in my body (without trying to sound completely like a weirdo) as a youngster I had many bone fractures and illnesses and as I never had any medical care even with my ankle fracture (the worst of all probably) and no treatment for other serious illnesses I feel alternatively tough and weak with physical pain. I have a high pain tolerance but I also hate it. Things that help me are taking hi dose vitamin C for my joint pain, multivitamin, no dairy and minimal sugars which cause inflammation. I also have to use fragrance and dye free laundry soaps and body soaps. Yoga has very much reduced my chronic pain also and it practice daily or near daily.