Pain in back during adrenalin rush situations

Well lm no expert but to me its like adrenaline rush is just too much for us all! It shouldnt hurt? And why does no one know anything? its hardly uncommon judging by this post! Isnt there any medical experst post here? Denise

I posted over a year ago on this forum and am surprised that no one has gotten any answers about these events. I literally just had another one (it happens about once or twice a day now) and all I did was cough really hard and couldn't stop.

This may be a bit personal for some to answer, but has anyone experienced one of these episodes during or after an orgasm or sexual encounter?

I havnt . Denise

I also have the exact same sy..mptoms almost always brought on by a stressful situation in traffic. I ended up just figuring that people are wired differently, because I am in good health and it passes in about 10 minutes with no other lasting effects. it just happened to me a few minutes ago in traffic and I became curious if either people have the same situation. at least good to know I'm not alone

Mine are never more or less frequent, they are just always to be expected in high adrenaline situations, again almost always in a traffic situation. depending on the severity of what's happening, they can be mild, or so intense that I am and throbbing pain and nearly need to pull the car over. and it takes about 10 minutes for everything to settle back down. I have not experienced sexually...yet

it totally takes it out of me when it happens feel drained for a good few hours afterwards! Denise

This has happened to me for years. I thought it was just me! It always happens after a scare, such as when driving. 

Glad I found these postings. I have had this happen twice now, and with a space of about 3 years inbetween. Just happened for the second time yesterday. Throbbing back pain at the top of the kidney area running down the back after an adrenaline rush. Finally wanted to look this up.

I have to say though, that I have had some major stressful situations inbetween that did not trigger this at all. But what I have noticed is that both times it happened, I was actually talking very fast and in a hurry, and feeling very nervous and on the spot as I was doing it. Felt like a very different kind of stress than just reacting to traffic situations or other something threatening.

Totally baffles me as to why this has happened twice in this kind of situation. I am certain it is the adrenal glands overreacting. No doubt. I just dont think it is normal. The first time it hurt terrible for a couple of minutes. Second time not as bad.

Going to my doc in three weeks and will ask her about it, then get back here to report what she says to you allt

I'll look forward to hearing what a doctor had to say about it, thanks!

Yea would be good to hear something from a professional and not a shrugged shoulders type of reply Good luck. Denise

I have found that if you tense up your stomach muscles as tight as you can during the throbbing, it subsides much faster and is far less painful.

To be honest l dont think you can take a proper breath while it happens anyway   you tense with it x Denise

I too have these symptoms, and have been diagnosed by my Doc as having anxiety issues. He put me on a serotonin re-uptake inhibitor, which calms my stress generally, but does nothing to prevent these episodes.

 

I have noticed some commonalities throughout this thread that relate to my own experience:

 

-happens primarily when driving or after driving  

-occurs during extreme stress/anger

-kidney area (adrenal gland location) pain that travels upward

 

Obviously these do not apply to everyone who has posted here, but it does seem to echo the majority.

 

This leads me to the following thought: if we are seated in a car/vehicle/ on a motorbike/roller coaster/in a chair/etc when it happens most often, is the unnatural position potentially putting pressure on the adrenal glands or potential pheochromocytoma?

Perhaps we all have either pheochromocytoma, or our particular anatomy leads to some dysfunction during an adrenal release while seated. 

 

Again and again I read "while driving.. after sitting down from a stressful situation.. after having been seated or having been driving.."

 

It seems to me that driving stress is only a common trigger of extreme adrenal release, while the most common thread we all share is being in an unnatural position before, during, or after the release. I imagine in nature it would be rather uncommon for a human to engage in a fight or flight situation while seated in a chair of some sort. When I look at human populations that still live today in a hunter gatherer "stone age" manner, chairs do not appear to be prevalent. They squat, stand, sit flat on the ground, lie down, and so forth, but they are never sitting down in the position a chair or car seat or motorbike creates (especially not with a chair back putting pressure on the lumbar region), and I doubt we are designed to go from that position to fight or flight.

 

So if some of the population can tolerate it.. so be it. Those of us who anatomically cannot.. or by reason of a tumor cannot...

 

Thoughts?

 

 

 

its happened to me whilst standing maybe yhe driving is coincidence due to how quick an accident could happen? Denise

I first got stabbing pains in my kidney area (lower back) 15 years ago at age 59.  The pains happened when late for work after

running up to my office.  I had to stand at the back of my desk chair, holding on to it until the pains subsided.  Also, when I

get excited about seeing a person that has upset me - the pains come, but at a less intense level.  It can be scary not knowing

why these pains occur in the physical sense.