I am sore! Is it sympathy pains or is it real soreness! I don’t know but I’m cranking up the yoga!!
Jason has been struggling with a shoulder pain that extends down his arm a bit. He has been miserable. It seems to be slowly getting better…but it’s been a long haul for him. I swear, the guy can’t get a break. First his foot and the great axe accident in October that brought mo the of pain and now this. I knew it was bad when he said ‘I’m going to urgent care’. He has a huge aversion to doctors! So I’ve been worried about that. But in the midst of talking to him he mentioned pinched nerve and I was like ‘oh, remember when I got that and it totally messed up my arm?’. The urgent care told me it was a pinched nerve. I struggled with it for a while and found that the best ‘medicine’ wasn’t medicine at all but movement…specifically yoga is what helped! I did yoga religiously for a while…but then slipped up and stopped doing it quite so regularly. So I recommended yoga to him. I’m
The problem started a few days later when my arm started acting up….reminiscent of that pinched nerve pain. Really? I didn’t even want to mention it because it feels like I was trying to be an attention whore! But honestly….I was struggling. So I took my own advice and started doing yoga!
Then a few days later my trapezius muscle on the OTHER side of my back started to tighten up! I had issues with that in the past also! In the past the medical professionals had told me that I had a seized muscle in my back. That pain was now back. Really? What is happening to me?
So I honestly half way have wondered if I am having sympathy pains. But then again, I know that it’s real pain. What sparked it? It could be trying to corral a 70 pound puppy. It could be the immense day of yard work that I completed last weekend….which included moving a huge pile of rocks! Maybe I just slept wrong! But it doesn’t matter…my upper back is sore! (Ironically enough it used to always be my lower back that got me….it has moved upward with age!). So I am still doing my normal exercise stuff…but cutting down the time a bit so that I can fit in a 10 minute quickly yoga session for shoulders neck and upper back! Fingers crossed that it will help me…and fast!
