Feeling old and creaky!

[Mark T]

Oh dear! I've done myself another injury

I went to my little ones school fete and I was apparently sitting awkwardly on the grass at the picnic before I took him in the heat around all the rides. I managed to get burnt despite having cream on, he didn't because generally I try to use my body to shade him.

However, on the evening afterwards my arm started aching like anything. I took co-codamol and applied improprofen gell and hoped I could sleep it off... I didn't...

It's now just a dull ache unless I move my arm in an awkward way or put too much pressure on it. But I still need co-codamol to get any sleep. The 111 person I spoke to on sunday said it was most likely I'd pulled a muscle or trapped a nerve and it should fade.

Unfortunately I now can't raise the affected arm about shoulder level - I can move it otherwise but it just stops once I get to horizontal. No back stroke for me then! Hopefully in time I'll get full movement back.

No idea which muscles/tendons/nerves I've actually managed to damage.

 

[HOBIE]

Hope it gets better ! There is nothing straight forward is there 😱

 

[soxpatch]

Hope it starts to get better. I can recommend an over the counter gel called Movelat. It's the only thing that stopped my Achilles tendinitis back in the day!

 

[Worcester_Matt]

Have you tried something like deep heat? It might help if it's a muscle pain. Won't do much good for a trapped nerve though. I can imagine it's rather painful, but try to
Keep moving it as much as you can do it doesn't seize up in other ways. Hope it goes quickly!

 

[KookyCat]

Ouch! Hope it feels better soon. Heat is generally a good idea to keep it more flexible, but might be a bit unpleasant if it's warm (it's like winter here so no worries there!). Just a thought though, watch out for signs of frozen shoulder, apparently for reasons nobody understands those of us with wonky blood sugar are particularly prone to it 😱

 

[Caroline]

I hope it gets better soon. If the pain is too much perhaps a visit to the doctors or pharmacist will help you with something a little stronger for a short period. Do you find a warm bath or shower helps?

 

[Mark T]

Thanks everyone 🙂

Popped in to my GP and she said I had tendonitis. Unfortunately the standard thing to give for that is taking ibuprofen - but that's off because of my tummy!

So I have to stick with ibuprofen gel and cooling gels and the co-codamol and give it time.

She said the second line treatment was a steroid injection, but that wasn't a good idea because of the big D.

Nice to see that a GP was aware of what steroids will do. Because when my nan went in for an injection for her arthritis they just released her forgetting that last time they did it the resulting high blood sugars (due to the steroids) gave her heart palpitations!