Psychoneuroimmunology

[boomerang]

I just started reading about Psychoneuroimmunology, essentially how the brain can cause physical changes in the body... like the placebo effect.   More and more people are finding reducing stress and anxiety helps with their chronic pelvic pain symptoms.  (CPPS is a encompassing term for protatitis, pelvic floor dysfunction, IC, and chronic pelvic muscle tension)  I recently saw a physical therapist who confirmed my suspicion, that I have CPPS issues.  On a CPPS forum similar to this one, there are people who also have Peyronies and most feel there is a connection between the two.

Chronic muscle tension can lead to constricted blood vessels, nerve issues, increased stress and adrenal activity, and regional inflammation.  And we all know what inflammation does...

I am not proposing our stressed minds bent our wangs, but I do believe that there is some connection between my CPPS and peyronies and not merely a coincidence.
I would be interested to hear if anyone on this forum has CPPS or similar.
SSmithe

I would suspect that it is a blood problem and that is why your brain is stressed.  With blood problems all organs are stressed to some extent.  When I started using blood thinning medication my stress went away.  Last week I wrote a song on the morning of my daughters wedding and I performed it in front of 140 people that evening with very little stress. And it went down very well.

When the brain is suffering from lack of oxygen, glucose and nutrients it gets very stressed out but doesn't know why!

All the peyronie's treatments I have seen that people claim to have some success with seem to improve blood flow in some way.

I suspect that peyronie's is just another symptom of a much wider thing.  In fact two people could have totally different symptoms but both be suffering from the same disease.  It seems to take many years to get most of the symptoms but they come at random times so one person would not make the connection until much later in life.

I can also see why reducing stress helps because it is a vicious circle with stress constricting blood vessels.

[Tim468]

I note an increase in stress and progression of disease. I work on not being so reactive. IT suggests to me that an adrenal response (up tight and outta sight) is associated with mild progression of disease.

Of course, after having this for many years, I can recognize when something is happening to my body. Sure enough, the new dent will appear soon after noting a different aching feeling. That sensation, in turn, causes me to fret and worry - so cause and effect is very hard to tease apart here. Knowing something is happening can occur at a subconscious level IMHO and lead to a stress response.

So, chicken or egg?

Tim

[SSmithe]

I just started reading about Psychoneuroimmunology, essentially how the brain can cause physical changes in the body... like the placebo effect.   More and more people are finding reducing stress and anxiety helps with their chronic pelvic pain symptoms.  (CPPS is a encompassing term for protatitis, pelvic floor dysfunction, IC, and chronic pelvic muscle tension)  I recently saw a physical therapist who confirmed my suspicion, that I have CPPS issues.  On a CPPS forum similar to this one, there are people who also have Peyronies and most feel there is a connection between the two.

Chronic muscle tension can lead to constricted blood vessels, nerve issues, increased stress and adrenal activity, and regional inflammation.  And we all know what inflammation does...

I am not proposing our stressed minds bent our wangs, but I do believe that there is some connection between my CPPS and peyronies and not merely a coincidence.
I would be interested to hear if anyone on this forum has CPPS or similar.
SSmithe