Primitives are experiencing muscle tension and backaches from Big Cheeto

[BattleHymn]

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Mon Jun 12, 2017, 09:40 PM
Star Member smirkymonkey (23,055 posts)

Muscle tension and backaches since Trump won?


Has anyone else been noticing an increase in muscle tension and back/neck/body aches since Trump won?

I have always stored stress in my lower back, shoulders and neck, but it was very occasional. Since the election it has been almost constant. I don't like to take pills because they bother my stomach but I have been spending a fortune on external pain medication - Salon Pas patches, gels & creams, etc. I am so tense all the time.

I was away this past weekend up at my sister's house and I didn't have much time to check in on news or DU and amazingly my pain went away. I am thinking that it is all due to the stress of having this pig in the White House and the daily chaos he creates.

Just wondering if anyone else is noticing the same thing.

Mon Jun 12, 2017, 09:41 PM
Star Member shenmue (31,905 posts)
1. Depression, aches, throwing up

Same way I felt during the eight awful years of Bush Jr.

Mon Jun 12, 2017, 09:43 PM
Star Member smirkymonkey (23,055 posts)
2. I never realized how much emotional stress could manifest itself in the body.

This has completely convinced me. I'm sorry you feel so awful. I hope we get some relief soon!

Sure.  In about EIGHT YEARS.   

Mon Jun 12, 2017, 09:44 PM
Star Member Beartracks (6,280 posts)
3. Hey, you're right. I think I am, too.

Don't know if it's stress directly from simply knowing the incompetent Trump Cabal and its GOP apologists are making America less great by the hour, or indirectly because I stay glued to the Web, hunched over the keyboard, now more than ever.

It's because you're a DUmmie.

Mon Jun 12, 2017, 09:51 PM
luvMIdog (2,123 posts)
4. My doctor had to increase my BP meds

Pills!  A pillar of primitivity.  ANYTHING for more pills.

Mon Jun 12, 2017, 10:59 PM
Star Member smirkymonkey (23,055 posts)
8. Every time I hear about Trump, I can feel my blood pressure rise.

He is a menace to public health.

Mon Jun 12, 2017, 10:09 PM
Star Member elfin (5,333 posts)
6. Oh yes! Increased meditation and breathing stretches

Told internist I may need to call for tranqs. She said to just call. We have known each other for so long, she will do so for a mild one without sending me to a psychologist. Seems a frequent occurrence in her practice now.

Just knowing I can do that has gotten me off the extreme anxiety ledge. No longer fighting true terror before sleep. Appointment of Mueller helps -- for now.

Hard times. I can't imagine the wingers had these same true fears during Obama - just hate while they knew they were still "safe" during their rants.

Mon Jun 12, 2017, 11:04 PM
Star Member smirkymonkey (23,055 posts)
9. Obama was never a threat to anyone's livelihood or healthcare.

Trump is actually a threat to people's lives. This is serious. I think there would be something wrong with a person if they didn't feel threatened by this administration. There is no bottom to which they can sink us. They are actively trying to destroy the middle and lower classes. If that doesn't cause mass anxiety, I don't know what would.

Mon Jun 12, 2017, 10:33 PM
Star Member politicat (9,291 posts)
7. Yes. More self-care.

Seriously, you can't keep resisting if you're hors d'combat. This is a marathon, not a sprint. If you're employed, you're looking at no more than 30 hours a week that aren't already allocated to keeping yourself fed, housed, working, clean, rested and maintaining your habitat. I know it's tempting to devote all of those thirty hours to resisting, but it's really not a good idea if you're feeling the stress. If you're retired or not working at a job (parenting is a job! Don't short-change your little humans!) you can add a few hours to activism and resistance, but treat it like a job: do the work, and leave it when you've accomplished the day's task. Don't take it home with you.

You've got something you love to do, that makes you feel good and that you can share with others. Maybe it's cooking, maybe it's gardening, maybe it's something textile based or gaming or building machinery or writing code or a sport. Schedule time for that activity, whatever it is. During that time, turn off your phone, concentrate on that activity and the people who share it with you.

All of us have to step up when we're able and step back when we're overwhelmed so we can recover as fast as we can and get back in the fight. If you can't bring yourself to take care of yourself for your own sake, then do it for those around you, so others don't have to expend time and energy taking care of you when you're down. And if you DO need help -- get it. Now. Don't let this fester. See your doctor, see or find a therapist, take advantage of whatever health benefits you have or can source. If you're in crisis, then your first priority AS AN ACT OF RESISTANCE is to do everything you can and ask for all the help you can find to get yourself in a place where you're at your best.

The opposition wants us broken, despairing, in pain, and indifferent. They don't care about you. If you're demoralized and hurting, they don't have to expend any attention or time on you. Don't give them what they want.

Mon Jun 12, 2017, 11:06 PM
Star Member smirkymonkey (23,055 posts)
10. I am trying. I am determined not to let them break me.

However it is exhausting some times. There are days when I just want to pull the covers over my head and not come out until this is all over.

Mon Jun 12, 2017, 11:08 PM
Danmel (2,903 posts)
11. My hair is graying rapidly

And my tummy is pretty cranky.

Nearly, nearly dying DUmmie?  You decide.

Mon Jun 12, 2017, 11:46 PM
Star Member smirkymonkey (23,055 posts)
12. Oh yes, my stomach has been a mess too!

Has this only been going on since the election? For me it has. I try to pretend this doesn't bother me, but my body isn't having it. It is reacting badly to all of this.

Tue Jun 13, 2017, 09:21 AM
Star Member femmocrat (26,228 posts)
13. I have felt lousy for months.

And I have no attention span. Can't stay focused on anything.

Tue Jun 13, 2017, 03:23 PM
Star Member hamsterjill (8,717 posts)
14. Most definitely.

Aches, pains, and a hell of a lot of insomnia. Worries about my own future, and the future of all of us collectively.

Tue Jun 13, 2017, 04:52 PM
Star Member Aristus (39,057 posts)
17. No.

I get a massage every month. And I try to drink as much as humanly possible.

If my liver survives, I'll go on the wagon in 3 1/2 years...

Schadenboner status:  Off the Rockwell hardness scale.

[Linda]

 

[jukin]

That thread is a five course meal to my schadenboner.

[freedumb2003b]

And yet during the obozo years, you NEVER heard about Conservatives needing drugs to cope.

That is for weak minds and spirits who can't handle the idea there are people out there who disagree with them.

And if we needed it, we would never brag about it on an open public forum.  Most of us think that it is embarrassing.

Of course, the biggest win of liberals was the loss of shame as a social construct.  Once here is no shame then everything and anything is OK.  Up to and including murder as an ideological tool.

[fatboy]

Mon Jun 12, 2017, 10:33 PM
Star Member politicat (9,291 posts)
7. Yes. More self-care self-medication.

Seriously, you can't keep resisting if you're hors d'combat. This is a marathon, not a sprint. If <---- you're employed, you're looking at no more than 30 hours a week that aren't already allocated to keeping yourself fed, housed, working, clean, rested and maintaining your habitat habit. I know it's tempting to devote all of those thirty hours to resisting,  (no not really) but it's really not a good idea if you're feeling the stress (due to a lack of herb). If you're retired or not working at a job <---    (parenting is a job! Don't short-change your little humans!) you can add a few hours to activism and resistance, but treat it like a job: do the work, just don't do it  and leave it when you've accomplished the day's task. Don't take it home with you.

You've got something you love to do, that makes you feel good (medical MJ?) and that you can share with others (party). Maybe it's cooking, maybe it's gardening, maybe it's something textile based hosting keggers or gaming or building machinery or writing code or a sport. Schedule time for that activity, whatever it is (24/7). During that time, turn off your phone,(WTF!)  concentrate on that activity and the people who share it with you.

All of us have to step up when we're able and step back when we're overwhelmed so we can recover as fast as we can and get back in the fight. If you can't bring yourself to take care of yourself (quaint as it might sound) for your own sake, then do it for those around you, so others don't have to expend time (with a clothes pin on their nose) and energy taking care of you when you're down (un-showered). And if you DO need help (and which Dummy doesn't?)  -- get it. Now. Don't let this fester. See your doctor] shrink, see or find a therapist another shrink, take advantage of whatever health benefits you have or can source. If you're in crisis, then your first priority AS AN ACT ASS OF RESISTANCE is to do everything you can and ask for all the help you can find to get yourself in a place where you're at your best (outhouse).

The opposition wants us broken, despairing, in pain, and indifferent <---- . They don't care about you. If you're demoralized and hurting, they don't have to expend any attention or time on you. Don't give them what they want. <---- 

[thundley4]

Mon Jun 12, 2017, 09:43 PM
Star Member smirkymonkey (23,055 posts)
2. I never realized how much emotional stress could manifest itself in the body.

Well, one thing is for certain. Bitterness and hatred in a DUmmie's soul manifests itself as ugliness on the skin.

[DUmpDiver]

Cut the DUmmies some slack. Being an irrational drama queen is hard work.

[Old n Grumpy]

Star Member smirkymonkey (23,055 posts)

Muscle tension and backaches since Trump won?


Has anyone else been noticing an increase in muscle tension and back/neck/body aches since Trump won?

I have always stored stress in my lower back, shoulders and neck, but it was very occasional. Since the election it has been almost constant. I don't like to take pills because they bother my stomach but I have been spending a fortune on external pain medication - Salon Pas patches, gels & creams, etc. I am so tense all the time

I store my tension and stress in my ass, taking a good thermo nuclear dump in the morning clears it right out.  I have had to replace the exhaust fan fairly frequently though.

Instead of gels, creams and patches try going to Happy time massage for a good massage with a happy ending.

[SVPete]

I get sore muscles and joints every couple of weeks ... walking 13.1 or 6.22 miles tends to do that to me.

Did these whiners sell their lives for a couple of s? Geesh!

[Ralph Wiggum]

Stop obsessing over politics and when things don't go your way.  Personally, wasn't thrilled with President Clinton or President Obama.  But you get up every day, work (a novel idea to many DUmmies) and forge onward.

Yeah, schadenboner status continues with their misery.

[FunkyZero]

Muscle tension and backaches since Trump won?

Has anyone else been noticing an increase in muscle tension and back/neck/body aches since Trump won?
I have always stored stress in my lower back, shoulders and neck, but it was very occasional. Since the election it has been almost constant. I don't like to take pills because they bother my stomach but I have been spending a fortune on external pain medication - Salon Pas patches, gels & creams, etc. I am so tense all the time

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Mon Jun 12, 2017, 11:04 PM
Star Member smirkymonkey (23,055 posts)
9. Obama was never a threat to anyone's livelihood or healthcare.

He specifically took mine away, you ****weasel.  Mine and millions of others.

[SVPete]

Mon Jun 12, 2017, 11:04 PM
Star Member smirkymonkey (23,055 posts)
9. Obama was never a threat to anyone's livelihood or healthcare.

Tell that to the coal miners whose companies he shut down. Tell that to workers at coal-fired electricity generation plants he threatened to drive out of business. Tell that to the oil field workers and construction people whose companies he harassed and hindered. Tell that to the people who worked at places like Solyndra who believed their companies were viable, until the Feds were forced by reality to pull the subsidy plug. Tell that to all the factory workers whose jobs Obama wrote off, but, somehow, magically, Trump is managing to get the companies to bring back.

As Adam said, millions lost their health plans - the ones Obama "promised" they could keep - and had too scrape around for something, and that something was almost(?) always much more expensive, with much worse coverage. For many, finding a new health plan also became an annual event! On the other side, BTW, for those who worked for larger companies whose health plans didn't go away, the employee contribution cost also rose substantially every year, starting a couple of years before OhBummer!Care cut in (incremental steps toward compliance, so there was no sudden massive increase!). That latter was my experience, and the employee contribution cost increases continued after the cut-in as well.