Why do you get stomach aches when you’re especially sad?

Stomach ache when you are especially sad may be caused by vegetative nerve function disorder, acute erosive hemorrhagic gastritis, peptic ulcer and so on.
1. Phytoneurological dysfunction: Phytoneurological dysfunction may be caused by mental tension, excessive psychological pressure, anger, mental stimulation, heredity and other factors. Patients will experience gastrointestinal neurological symptoms such as stomach pain and bloating, as well as other symptoms such as chest tightness, breathlessness, insomnia and forgetfulness, and numbness of the limbs. Therefore, when the patient is especially sad, it will induce vegetative nerve dysfunction, thus inducing the manifestation of stomach pain.
2. Acute erosive hemorrhagic gastritis: acute erosive hemorrhagic gastritis may be the body is in a state of stress, sympathetic and vagal excitation, which will make the gastric mucosa vasospasm contraction, gastric mucosa arterial vein short-circuit opening, gastric mucosa ischemia and hypoxia aggravated. Patients will have gastric pain, abdominal distension and other manifestations.
General patients especially sad will lead to the body is in a state of stress, thus causing acute erosive hemorrhagic gastritis, patients will have symptoms of stomach pain.
3. Peptic ulcer: the cause of peptic ulcer is not yet clear, and it is considered to be related to Helicobacter pylori infection, taking non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, bad dietary habits, emotional fluctuations and so on. General patients especially sad, nervousness, anxiety may make the vagus nerve excitation, which will affect the gastroduodenal secretion, peristalsis, easy to induce peptic ulcer.
Patients will manifest as stomach pain, heartburn, etc., so patients with peptic ulcer will also have the symptom of stomach pain when they are especially sad.
It is recommended that patients who experience stomach pain when they are particularly sad need to seek medical attention in a timely manner, and the doctor will choose the appropriate measures to treat the cause of the problem.