Sensory overload and pain

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Does anyone else experience physical pain with overload? Today I had my first day back at work after two weeks off and I'm feeling really overstimulated. When I've experienced a sensory overload, my whole body aches, but especially my legs starting at the back of my knees and travelling up to my back. It's absolutely agonising and I can barely walk. It takes all my strength just to get home and then I just have to lie with my legs up. Anyone else get this? I'm worried it might actually be a sign of something more serious.

Hard to tell - it may be either a sensory issue or something else. Is it a recent thing or do you remember having it "like always"?
My sensory issues have been there all the time but they get a lot worse with fatigue and overstimulation.

Yes - when I have light sensitivity it feels like someone is stabbing my eyes from the inside and punching me in the head again from the inside to two sides of the outside.

Nothing like what you're describing though, that sounds more worrying. Is this normal for you?

It's been normal for me for the last four years, but before that the only pain I had was migraines and just a general feeling of exhaustion. It doesn't seem to be related to my activity levels, but definitely flares up when I'm feeling a little overloaded.

Just to be on the safe side, the general health check would be a right thing to do. Blood tests and all. It might be sensory but until you rule out other health issues, you can't be sure.

Yes, I had.

It can come from different sources other than overstimulation and fatigue.
It could be because you're sick and your body is fighting off whatever you caught.

My longest was from an overstimulation (yet I really enjoyed that most of whole time) lasted about a week. To the point I have headaches and vomited on my way home.
I wasn't exactly sick, more like a part of me is very exhausted, it's at it's limit, and cannot take it anymore.

This is while walking for hours a day and still going to a fulltime job. It would've been a faster recovery if I rested instead. Ah at work, the whole time I was really snappy because everything hurts.
It's how I understood constant fatigue and pain from every move I made and everything I sense I perceived and how some describes motor engines as 'thundering roars', and many more.

My last line of defence it seems is tolerance and will power, since there's no threshold to soak the whole thing in.


But when it's from actual sickness, it's best to rule it out first.

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