Woke up with shoulder pain... What do you guys do?

[AwakeningAlpha]

Welp I guess I'm at that age, I hurt myself sleeping more often than in the gym. Woke up this morning with a sore left shoulder. It hurts to reach forward or up- so much so that driving to the office, putting on a shirt, morning routine was difficult. Feels tight in left trap, tricep and rear delt, ultimately culminating in shoulder joint. I did do a pretty intense shoulder focused upper body day three days ago and supplemented the dreaded ARACHIDONIC ACID, but everything felt fine then and after. I am also a side sleeper and probably spent most of the night on my left side. I've also been under a good amount of stress and cortisol is definitely high right now. Maybe this:

I am a BPC wh*re so I pinned BPC and TB immediately, did some light stretching, and am going to modify my upper body workout later today to avoid turning this into a real injury.

What do you guys do when you feel this kind of thing coming on?

 

[botk1161]

58 yr old here. Side sleeping wrecks the shoulder (the whole quadrant in fact) I am sleeping on especially if its a bit of a jacked up shoulder to start with. If I sleep on my "bad shoulder" pretty much all night for a couple of nights in a row, I am screwed for days trying to continue working out, trying to "make progress" and trying to decompress it etc.. If I sleep on the other side for a few nights or really limit the "bad shoulder" side, all my problems start going away (and they start going to the other side though). When I sleep on my back, I have to pee 3-4 times a night though lol. So I go to bed on my back and when I switch to my good side and really try to limit sleeping on my bad side. As I get older, this issue is becoming more and more of a problem - if its not addressed. I think lymphatic drainage sites in the pecs and traps and underarms simply don't drain as well as they used too - and that sleeping on them (while they are trying to recover (drain) causes the "issue" (side sleeping is forcing (under weight) the shoulder into a more closed position for many hours, blocking lymphatic drainage, partially blocking nerves, lack of blood flow etc..

Using a massage gun on these sites, for a couple of minutes pre-bed (and in the morning) really does help! If I have this drainage maintained and don't sleep too much on the known bad side, then I can make progress sometimes for up to a couple of months before going over "the limit". And all the associated knots and soreness and bullshit magically go away. Good luck!

 

[AwakeningAlpha]

58 yr old here. Side sleeping wrecks the shoulder (the whole quadrant in fact) I am sleeping on especially if its a bit of a jacked up shoulder to start with. If I sleep on my "bad shoulder" pretty much all night for a couple of nights in a row, I am screwed for days trying to continue working out, trying to "make progress" and trying to decompress it etc.. If I sleep on the other side for a few nights or really limit the "bad shoulder" side, all my problems start going away (and they start going to the other side though). When I sleep on my back, I have to pee 3-4 times a night though lol. So I go to bed on my back and when I switch to my good side and really try to limit sleeping on my bad side. As I get older, this issue is becoming more and more of a problem - if its not addressed. I think lymphatic drainage sites in the pecs and traps and underarms simply don't drain as well as they used too - and that sleeping on them (while they are trying to recover (drain) causes the "issue" (side sleeping is forcing (under weight) the shoulder into a more closed position for many hours, blocking lymphatic drainage, partially blocking nerves, lack of blood flow etc..

Using a massage gun on these sites, for a couple of minutes pre-bed (and in the morning) really does help! If I have this drainage maintained and don't sleep too much on the known bad side, then I can make progress sometimes for up to a couple of months before going over "the limit". And all the associated knots and soreness and bullshit magically go away. Good luck!

Thanks man I'll try that tonight.