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Can stress/anxiety cause flu sx? woke up 2am yesterday w/ chills, spent day w/ temp of 99.3, h/a, nausea. stress went away today & so did symptoms!
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Yes!: Stress accompanies most physical symptoms, whether it is causal or not is still being clarified, many years after Dr Hans Selye postulated what he called the General Adaptation Syndrome. We can say for some of us the body speaks the state of ones sense of comfort or discomfort.
Answered 3/22/2017
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