Physical Symptoms While Grieving

I personally have not experienced increased physical pain while grieving, but I have witnessed this in many of my patients.  Increased headaches,  or joint pain, or muscle pain, etc.  In a grieving state, the fluxes in neurotransmitters, hormones, and naturally-produced pain killers by the body all contribute to this phenomenon.

Sometimes, new physical symptoms emerge after grief.  When my mother died, my sister started developing symptoms that looked like multiple sclerosis.  They turned out to be stress-induced symptoms from grief.

And at other times, when questioning a person's history, chronic physical complaints can be traced back to starting at the time when someone close to that person has died.

The homeopathic remedy Ignatia is often a good remedy choice when grief has exacerbated an acute flare-up of a physical or emotional condition.