Anyone ever sleep on their shoulder wrong and have it hurt for days?
Anyone ever sleep on their shoulder wrong and have it hurt for days?
idk wtf I did but I woke up 2 days ago with this pain in my shoulder right inside where the shoulder itself meets my chest and man it hurts. It's so bad in the morning I can't lift my arm over my head. But as the day goes on (and taking some nsaids) it lessens a bit.
What did I do to myself?
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Yeah unfortunately I get this occasionally. For me it's on the back right by the shoulder and neck, and it just sucks for at least three days.
Fuck body pain!
It doesn't solve the pain, but I do try to think of Montaigne when I'm in a situation like this. Of course he's talking about kidney stones and the instant relief (something unfortunately back pain doesn't usually have), but the shift from pain to not pain is amazing. The morning you wake up and slept right and no longer hurt is 10/10.
But is there anything delightful in comparison of this sudden change, when from an excessive pain, I come, by the voiding of a stone, to recover, as by a flash of lightning, the beautiful light of health, so free and full, as it happens in our sudden and sharpest colics? Is there anything in the pain suffered, that one can counterpoise to the pleasure of so sudden an amendment? O, how much does health seem the more pleasant to me, after a sickness so near and so contiguous, that I can distinguish them in the presence of one another, in their greatest show; when they appear in emulation, as if to make head against and dispute it with one another! As the Stoics say that vices are profitably introduced to give value to and to set off virtue, we can, with better reason and less temerity of conjecture, say that nature has given us pain for the honor and service of pleasure and indolence. When Socrates, after his fetters were knocked off, felt the pleasure of that itching which the weight of them had caused in his legs, he rejoiced to consider the strict alliance betwixt pain and pleasure; how they are linked together by a necessary connection, so that by turns they follow and mutually beget one another; and cried out to good fellow Aesop, that he ought out of this consideration, to have taken matter for a fine fable.
Obviously pain isn't good on its own, and get yourself some Tylenol and if it persists see a doctor. But allowing yourself to feel through it and then, on the other side, appreciate feeling good even more is I think a good attitude when it's just the flesh being... Bleh.
As I get older "On Experience" continues to hit harder and harder.
something unfortunately back pain doesn't usually have
I know it's a huge range of things under that umbrella, but reverse planks for lower back pain related to weak core muscle strength had almost as rapid an effect for me. Talking like, at most two, maybe three, sets of three to failure, just bodyweight hitting those lower back support muscles, and it was like it hit a reset button.
edit: and thanks to this thread and these reminders, I did some sets since that post and feel a million times more stable and strong. The psychological benefits mesh with the physical benefits so nicely, especially when you're also feeling like age is competing to hold you back.