I (39M) went kayaking one day and had a sore trap afterwards, then worked out and did stuff throughout the rest of the week despite having sore muscles. I inflamed everything so much it made my nerve go nuts so that I have nerve pain in my shoulder/ arm. It’s been like this for three weeks. Been going to PT and it’s slowly feeling better, but it’s messed my world up. Anyone ever had this? Did it get better/ come back?
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My coworker had something like this and ended up getting some type of neck surgery because it was actually fucked up all her life it just finally got aggravated enough to expose the nerve problems.
Ruptured a disc in my back leading to nerve pain and permanent numbness.
Did you see any doctor. Get scans
My wife is suffering from this now. She pulled her upper back and shoulders in late May. The pain runs inside her shoulder blade up to the base of her skull. She says it feels like someone shoves an ice pick in it every time she turns her head. She’s had several trigger point injections, 2 epidural steroid injections and one hospitalization to manage the pain. She’s now taking muscle relaxers and pain killers every 4 hours, waiting for insurance approval to cauterize the nerves to stop the pain. So ya, it can cause nerve pain.
Wait until you’re in your mid-40’s, turn your head to sneeze and pull a muscle in your back/neck for a few days. Talk about dumb.
But yes, have had this a few times with nerve pain and spasms when doing home renovations carrying heavy stuff, mainly due to low potassium and magnesium (deficiencies). Low calcium levels as well (electrolytes as a whole). Get some blood work and see a doc as obviously I’m no medical expert. As we age, we lose a lot of vitamin intake and nutrients from healthy foods due to bad diet, bad sleep patterns and the body not being in homeostasis. Lots of the regenerative functions act up, slow down or stop working as a whole. After running multiple panels, you’d be surprised at some of the things your body may be rejecting that you weren’t aware of. Conversely, you’d also be surprised at all the things your body is not getting.
Not in my neck no. I dropped a very heavy piece of furniture on my foot once. It shattered the inner most bone in my foot and down to my big toe. I’ve had no feeling in that part of my foot ever since.
Go to the doctor. Now. Get in front of this before it becomes chronic. You can fix a lot of nerve pain with physical therapy.
That exact sequence, no. But I did give myself nerve damage – slipped on the treadmill, caught myself but in a really crazy position, like an extremely deep dip. For about a month/six weeks after I was having intense waves of tingling and numbness, and it would feel like my whole arm had been pumped up like a balloon. It wasn’t always painful, more just intense and unbelievably uncomfortable. But sometimes nearly painful enough to make me cry. The symptoms slowly subsided over the next 2-3 months, but have still not completely gone away, almost two years later. Just slight tingling and numbness in the thumb that goes up and down depending on how much pressure is on my neck.
It does heal, but it’s slow going depending on what is injured.
If it’s just muscle, it will be a couple of weeks. Eat a well balanced diet, hydrate… give it time.
If you have tendon or cartilage involvement, this is a very different beast. You will need to be careful the rest of your life not to aggravate it and you will be prone to repeating the injury because shoulders just never heal back the way they were.
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I’ve found doing weekly private lesson Pilates has really reduced the frequency of this kind of stuff, and speeds up resolution when it does pop up. So much of what we think of as the aches and pains of age are really down to poor body mechanics, often the result of compensating for a previous issue.
I had shoulder arthritis at 35, bad sciatica at 46, and wake up pain free every day at 55 thanks to Pilates.
maybe that guy from nantucket.
Yepp. Currently dealing with what feels like splenius cervicis tightness, tightness in the t4 area, and left trap and shoulder for almost a year now. Progression has been made, first couple months my neck was basically locked up and didn’t work out for a while. Hurt a lot more and range of motion was bad. Then I slowly regained my range of motion from working out and stretching. Pain decreased from like a 7 to a 2 or 3. Flares up do happen though and hit about a 5 or 6.
It’s pretty damn miserable honestly. Only thing keeping me from jumping off a bridge is that progression does seem to happen although slowly.
I’ve always had a little bit of discomfort in my neck area but I’m pretty sure that started out as bad posture/stress. Add ego lifting on top of it and yeah probably what got me to where I’m at.
All pain is nerve pain
Yes. It got better.
Yep , had a really good traditional Chinese doctor do massage and acupuncture . Helped a lot