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  1. winny
    10 October 2012 @ 4:52 pm

    James: Have had the same thing happen to me with a cancer diagnosis. Not only was I stressed but I was deemed (literally) hysterically wanting a hysterectomy because I calmly and clearly stated something was “wrong” becuase of many many issues. I was told that I needed to take a “vacation” from gyno doctors for a couple of years. In 2 years I was in the kind of shape you could not mistake my problems. Just because of hubris, and a doctor making a split second assessment of my being the minute he saw me. There is a study (I will try and find the link in PubMed) that a significant % of the doctors decide what is wrong with their patients within the first 15 seconds of walking into the exam room with the patient. Needs to be some retraining going on in my opinion in all practice types. A great article from across the pond (from me anyway!!)

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  2. Alvin Arnold
    12 October 2012 @ 3:03 am

    It is very common to us that we blame stress if we experience something in our body or we have some difficulties. I would rather say that it is a 50-50 change that stress is the cause because sometimes or most of the time, even we are not stressed, it will occur. Stress is somewhat a mental disorder, and that is the reason why most of the time, stress could affect our daily activities.

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  3. Stephanie
    12 October 2012 @ 11:41 am

    I had to comment on this. I have a stressful job (attorney). My greatest fear is that I would get a headache in the middle of trial. Never happens. I have gotten them in the least stressful times (on Christmas morning as a kid, I mean seriously). I had one neurologist tell me once that sometimes the migraine will come in a “let down” period after a stressful event. I always thought that to be interesting. There is very little rhyme or rythem to my headaces. But stress has never been the culprit.

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