by Guest » 13 Jun 2007, 10:38
HA,
That's a great point too. It's always hard to tie a certain occurrence to something else in your life because there seems to be a limitless array of things that could have caused it.
Given Kim's reply and your stress theory, I can totally see that as an impacting factor for me. Stress is a funny thing. I can have a ton of projects at work, and not really seem anymore stressed then I've been used too my entire life. But when the AF kicked in permanently, I worried constantly. And due to the things it started to impact, the stress just multiplied. My physical medicine doctor recently told me that stress is the single biggest underlying ailment when he treats his patients for other things. So much so, that he instantly told me about my work environment without ever actually being there because he treated so many of my coworkers recently. It amazed me. I've also been reading a number of articles on the internet that indicate stress has a tremendous impact on our bowels.
I don't want to hijack this tread but this leads me to the question: Do different things >>tend<< to work for different people when treating AF because it's the step in their mind that relates best to healing, thus reducing stress which then really kicks in the healing process? I've read on other boards A LOT of less than conservative cures (Tanactin, Pecans, Lip ointment, various homemade products...) and different people swear they work.
Anyway...SSH, do you think its stress??