Shot in the arm, Only took a year
I have had issues with my shoulders, mostly my right one for years and years with pain from pressing movements like bench press. It got so bad at times I stopped doing the movement altogether for long periods of time. Since I started benching back up the last few years I have had some off and on issues with pain in the shoulder but typically that pain is restricted to when I am actually doing that movement. The good thing always was that even when bench pressing hurt I still could do push ups relatively pain free.
Well since the gyms closed I obviously have not been bench pressing but I have been doing push ups, lots of push ups during my parking garage workouts. I had started getting some of that same shoulder pain I did from benching but it was the type that hurt the first set of reps but then went away as I warmed up. So I returned to the garage Tuesday after 5 days of no push ups, I expected to be feeling pretty good. Instead the shoulder pain was immediately there, probably the most I have felt.
The weird thing is Monday night I developed a stabbing kink in my neck out of nowhere, again based on the right side. Certain head movements sent jolts of pain through my neck and at times I could literally feel the muscles in the area contracting like a vise, it was not a good sensation. But despite that pain the night before I was able to knock out my 200 push ups on Tuesday, but I started paying the price Tuesday night. My right shoulder started to just throb and ache nonstop. The pain woke me up from my sleep and I took two Advil to try to take the edge off.
The pain continued all through the day and made any movement of the right arm that required it to be extended very painful. Things have not changed much through today, I will be skipping the parking garage workout. The last time I remember having full time shoulder pain like this is when I used to destroy my left shoulder in volleyball tournaments. My plan for now is to just keep taking anti-inflammatory meds to dull the pain, stop doing any exercise that hurts and hope my body repairs itself. The last thing I am interested in doing is seeking medical attention right now.
Speaking of medical attention, I finally got around to paying off my part of my ridiculous ER bill from last April’s Bells Palsy episode. I have gone through repeated phone conversations with the hospital billing department and my insurance company trying to get the credit for the $700 single pill applied to my claim. The bullshit required to wade through was insane and I clearly see why so many give up and just pay the bill to make it go away. For whatever reason, I am not the type that gives up the fight that easily.