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Oct 16, 2017, 03:50 PM
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I've been noticing lately that pain in my upper back and neck increases, sometimes gradually over the course of weeks, when I'm stressed out. Then out of nowhere I'll get a mixed episode and the pain increases 2-3x until I can calm down and get back into a stable mind. Sometimes pain goes away completely the next day, sometimes it doesn't. I'm finding that my pain is a physical indicator of my level of hypo/mania/depression.
Do the rest of you guys experience the same thing? If so, what other sorts of physical indicators do you experience?
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Oct 16, 2017, 04:13 PM
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 Eat a live frog for breakfast every morning and nothing worse can happen to you that day! "Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be left waiting for us in our graves - or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth.” Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged Bipolar type 2 rapid cycling DX 2013 - Seroquel 100 Celexa 20 mg Xanax .5 mg prn Modafanil 100 mg 
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Oct 16, 2017, 06:47 PM
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I have physical stuff going on in lumbar but upper back is okay, so when it starts hurting, it is muscle tension. For me, the jaw is the indicator; if I am clinching and my jaw hurts, my upper back will also. Stress makes me clinch.
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Oct 16, 2017, 07:03 PM
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are you on any ap's?
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Oct 16, 2017, 07:22 PM
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I have been in the same situation. I recently came down from a manic episode and I have had some issues with my teeth but the problem that I have had was this excruciating pain all over my body. I am scared because I cant tell if its actual pain or if it is all psychological.
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Oct 16, 2017, 08:39 PM
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Yes. When i have depression, my body aches. My back and my joints become sore and inflamed. Very painful. I also have multiple sclerosis and that hurts much worse as well. My neuropathy in my hand and feet burn and throb.
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Oct 16, 2017, 08:47 PM
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Oct 16, 2017, 09:00 PM
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If I'm stressed you can bet I'm
Clinching my teeth so my neck and head will hurt. Happens a lot!
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Oct 17, 2017, 03:49 PM
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Either my Bipolar flips me into an angry mania OR my chronic pain flips myself into a ugly Mania.
Cycles for me
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