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.
Not sure which country you’re in but if you’re in Canada, try CBD oil with camphor in it? Really helped me with a rotator cuff tear
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
Go to the doctor. I have permanent enervation in my right triceps and tingly numbness in my right index and thumb because of nerve issues. Don’t fuck around with nerves.
This is my story if anyone is interested in reading it and maybe has any ideas on what this could be. I’ve been dealing with significant arm, neck, and shoulder weakness and pain since 2021:
https://www.reddit.com/r/ChronicPain/comments/1d2oskm/my_arms_have_lost_all_strength_since_april_2021/
Plus, a few months ago I lost strength in my feet after taking a weird step down some stairs. Then, a few weeks ago I got a haircut and strained my neck so bad it still hurts and Ive been really dizzy.
I started rock climbing in my 30s and it’s a regretfully ignored fact that ‘noob gains’ are for muscles, not tendons. I got strong a hell of a lot quicker than I got resilient, and did all sorts of nonsense to my wrists, fingers, back, and my already-janky shoulders that don’t like staying in their sockets (can’t do handstands, can get out of a straitjacket 🤷🏻♂️). I had fortnightly physio sessions booked in for a couple years because even if nothing was broken, chances were something would be by my next appointment.
Worst was a left supraspinatus/rotator cuff injury from shock-loading at a super awkward angle, took a few months to get back to basic doing-life-without-random-pain-spikes mobility/ROM, but about 3-4 years to actually fully heal. I can still remember the absolute joy of being able to one-arm hang on that side again without feeling like something was gonna tear.
It’s good that you’re already doing the PT thing. All I can say (hypocritically) is DO YOUR DAMN REHAB EXERCISES. Recovery isn’t quick, and 100% isn’t guaranteed, but you can definitely get back to functional if you put in the work.
I messed something up doing some HIIT cardio.
I’m not sure if I strained something in my glute, sciatica (likely not since I didnt have the walk), piriformis muscle, or psoas muscle..
Pain would be so intense I had to stop walking.
In the end I foam rolled and stretched and it finally fucked off. I did stretches for piriformis as well as psoas muscle.
Yea
Yes same age as you and got it so bad to the point I couldn’t move my shoulder. I fixed it with physio and more gym work.
I used to love the overhead press but had to stop as every time i tried to increase the weight id pull a muscle in my traps that made my whole neck stiff and i couldnt turn my head haha
It takes awhile for nerves to sort themselves out, take some anti inflamatories and rest up, maybe some light massage and dont do anything extreme
I slept wrong. Like seriously wrong and my neck and back were sore for a month.
I popped my shoulder partially out of place doing pushups; not a full dislocation. I couldn’t raise my arm more than 30 degrees, it would go numb in a lot of positions, was painful to pick things up, and there have been some apparently permanent changes in which muscles get used for certain movements.
I saw a chiropracter for a little bit (big oops) but mostly just ignored it for a couple years. Eventually went to PT and got an MRI. MRI confirmed my body is dinged up and I’ll never play professional sports, but PT is fine for rebuilding strength and I don’t need surgery.
The PT itself was invaluable. While doing it, it felt mostly stupid and like a waste of time. Then a couple months in they pulled out the calipers and it turns out that I’d tripled my range of motion and my arm was largely functional.
It gets better. Take your PT seriously when you’re there, and take it seriously when you’re doing the home exercises. When you’re discharged? Continue to take it seriously and keep doing exercises at home.
Since this is still hurting you after three weeks? Talk to your physical therapist about it and grill them until you’re comfortable with all the answers. This may be entirely normal; this may be something that warrants an MRI. Nerves generally recover pretty slowly, though, and it’s way better that this hurts than you not feeling anything.
And stop chasing gains and trying to power through your pain. That fucked you up badly, and that’s only going to continue.
yeah, i fucked up a nerve in my shoulder and neck area after taking a hockey puck to the ankle (think like an extreme version of sleeping funny) lol. i went back to physiotherapy, it took a few months of healing but it eventually went away.
Had a physical therapist show me something called nerve flossing. Helps a lot.
yes.
it got better when I decided to stop pissing around and do what the PT told me to do
I have to do the prescribed exercises and not miss them otherwise I’m setting myself up for recurrence
since I fucked around, it’s very easy to tweak and make hurt again
Yeah I have had long term neck/shoulder pain on one side, assume its from excessive phone use. I am experimenting with different pillows as that might be a factor too
I go to a chiropractor and I swear it helps.