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Everyone knows you're number 1. Perhaps they're experiencing a high volume of calls at this time.selfmademug wrote:I called them and I got an automated voice saying I was number two in line and could expect a waiting time of approximately fifteen years. They said my call was important to them, but I'm not sure I believe it...verbal gymnastics wrote: What about Boys 'R Us?
Failing that perhaps you should go down to the store and pick something out yourself
Who’s this kid with his mumbo jumbo?
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...which is no surprise as the adrenal gland is there and it has an undoubtable relation to levels of stress. I probably was experiencing a form of glandular fever.bambooneedle wrote:Right at the top of the neck, at the base of the skull? I get a really tight feverish feeling there occassionally.El Vez wrote:Ever get that ball of stress in the back of your neck where you feel like you could bend steel with your fingers?
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The adrenal gland is at the apical pole of the kidney, down around the mid to lower back. It is a source of epinephrine, and its endocrine function places this 'stress' chemical into the general circulation. The tension in the neck region is only related to adrenal endocrine output to the degree that the individual holds tension in the head/neck/shoulders region. Epinephrine can induce these muscles to contract in preparation for flight or flight, but there is nothing specific about the action of the adrenals, or its neurohumeral endocrine output, on tension in any specific area of the body.
I counsel on stress management. Unfortunately, I have failed my course many times.
I counsel on stress management. Unfortunately, I have failed my course many times.
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I was wrong; it's called the pituitary gland, the one at the base of the skull, right? In any case, it controls all other endoctrine glands like the adrenal glands by the hormones it produces. If the pituitary gland is not functioning optimally might you feel pain at the back of the neck and feel very stressed or exhausted?
Watched The Brown Bunny last night. Woof. I had no idea that Vincent Gallo was such a fan of MST3K staple Manos: Hands of Fate (Manos is "hands" in Spanish so the movie is actually Hands: Hands of Fate) because, just like with Manos, three-quarters of Bunny is just him driving down various highways, looking pensive in that insufferable GQ way. I kept thinking "Is this one of Soderbergh's jokes or something?" I really, really liked Buffalo '66 but this was quite possible the worst film ever made by someone who might be a major talent.
No. Your pituitary is deep in your brain, roughly behind your eyes and between your ears. I know cause I had to have mine scanned for tumors about eight years ago; long story but all was and is well.bambooneedle wrote:I was wrong; it's called the pituitary gland, the one at the base of the skull, right?
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The pituitary is located just south of the Thalamus, a huge sensory nucleus in the midbrain. It resides just north of the hard palette of the roof of the mouth...thus, BRAINFREEZE occurs when the Pituitary tries to thermoregulate after too much ice-cream causes a sudden thermal drop.
While the pituitary and the hypothalamus mediate a tremendous amount of the more primal functions of the human body (and thus, affect human behaviour...See the Rene DesCartes "Mind-Body Problem) it is not the source of the pain that you describe. In general, the pain is secondary to muscle tension and/or alterations in cerebral blood flow inducing headaches that can radiate into the neck and shoulders.
The pituitary adn hypothalamus are incredible gatekeepers and keymasters of the body. You are right that they are proximal to the source of your pain, but they are not DIRECTLY the source of it.
Interestingly enough, by inserting needles made of bamboo into the sexual satiety center of the hypothalamus you can induce a grown man to hump a Laz-Y-Boy Recliner through orgasm all the way to unconsciousness.
While the pituitary and the hypothalamus mediate a tremendous amount of the more primal functions of the human body (and thus, affect human behaviour...See the Rene DesCartes "Mind-Body Problem) it is not the source of the pain that you describe. In general, the pain is secondary to muscle tension and/or alterations in cerebral blood flow inducing headaches that can radiate into the neck and shoulders.
The pituitary adn hypothalamus are incredible gatekeepers and keymasters of the body. You are right that they are proximal to the source of your pain, but they are not DIRECTLY the source of it.
Interestingly enough, by inserting needles made of bamboo into the sexual satiety center of the hypothalamus you can induce a grown man to hump a Laz-Y-Boy Recliner through orgasm all the way to unconsciousness.
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