Msg # 8682   
Date: 26 May 94  12:20:00
From: Bob Johnstone
  To: Teh-yi Liu
Subj: HELP
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 > It is scary but I see myself in your shoes.  Is hives an actual
 > sympton of stress?  I do get it together with the TMJ & soemtimes
 > with a tightness across the chest but I always thought that it was a
 > food allergy and that it was non stress related.

   Hives certainly can be a symptom of stress.  It can be caused by allergy,
but even allergies can be symptoms of stress.  Tightness across the chest
could be from the allergies, or it could also be caused by stress.  Many
experience tightness in the muscles in various areas of the body when under
stress.  It depends on what is happening _before_ you feel this tightness,
what may be causing it.  When you realize you feel it, think back about
_what_ has been happening for at least 30 minutes before you began feeling
it.  When the body is under stress, the immune system does not functions as
well.  If hormones, etc in the body are not balanced, people can have an
alergic reaction.  Many I have found get rid of alergies quickly as they get
rid of stress.

   One lady I worked with who had many alergies, who was so bad she could not
go outdoors in the spring or even walk 50 yards without having a terrible
time breathing.  He husband smoked cigars, and for years he always went out
on the porch to smoke, long before we knew the dangers of smoking.  She was a
foster child in the system for years, before she was finally adopted when she
was eight.  Then her adoptive mother treated her more like a maid than a
daughter. She had two bad marriages before this one, this husband was smarter
than the others and suggested therapy for their difficulties.

   As she got rid of the resentment from her past, their problems
disappeared, and so did her "allergies."  One day on the way home from my
office, her car broke down on the freeway, about 200 feet from an exist, the
one she took.  She could see a gas station at the exist, and decided to try
walking on a hot California Summer day to get to a phone.  When she got
there, the station was closed, so she decided to walk til she found one.  She
said later, "I just kept looking around, enjoying my surroundings, the grass,
trees, flowers, in the yards I passed and before I knew it I was home."   Her
husband was amazed, she had walked five miles.

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