So, I had something unusual happen today. It may just be a new lesson in aging, or it may not be.
The background is, last week I started a 3 day pack job for a family. There were only two people assigned and I knew I had to leave early the second day so I really put in the effort the first day. Ended up getting about half the entire job done. Been paying for that with aches and pains since.
Mostly the aches have gone away except my left hand has been bothering me. Sharp or intense ache. If I bowled left handed, I wouldn’t be able to hold a 12 pound ball to roll it down the lane. Didn’t seem to really hamper me in my work so much (a lot of what I do doesn’t require much fine motor coordination or manipulation) until this afternoon. I was helping load a truck and went to put a very light “top load only” box up high when very intense pain flaired up in my hand, wrist elbow and shoulder. Lasted about 20 or 30 minutes and died down. That did hamper me in my job. Then it happened again several hours later when I got home and was trying to drink a glass of water left handed. I didn’t drop the glass, but it was a damn close thing. It didn’t last as long, just a minute or two, but then I wasn’t wrasslin heavy furniture and boxes.
So should I just get cozy with a couple ice packs and anti-inflammatory meds or did I possibly actually hurt myself worse than I think I did?
Carpal tunnel syndrome in my right hand I’m used to, aches and pains are just part of this job sometimes. The only time I’ve ever been impacted in my job by pain, I was actually injured. So naturally I’m a little worried, but not panicked yet.
Eta, I don’t know what"you are not permitted to view the requested resource" means, but I just wanted to add the usual disclaimer;
This is a message board, your opinion, regardless of your status or position in the medical profession or your education is just that, an opinion because there is no way you can diagnose anything based on the scant info I’ve given.
In the future, when you do something like that, start some sort of therapy that night (what kind of therapy I leave up to someone who has more medical knowledge than me). Waiting it out, without doing something, is not a good idea.
I’ll agree with the other non medical doctor to try something, and then go to a doctor in a few days if the pain is not gone.
Better, some small twinges, not sure if it’s residual or just the normal aches and pains of life.
I’ve been using cold packs every evening for about 20 to 30 minutes followed by a scandalously long hot shower and then bed. Haven’t used any meds at all except for a couple aspirin when I originally posted since that’s what I had on hand (the aleve was expired by about a year).
I dunno, I guess it probably wasn’t as big a deal as it potentially seemed, but I turned 50 this year and THAT seems to be affecting me in ways, mostly mental, that I don’t expect more than it has physically. Changes my perception of myself and my body in some way I don’t know how to describe yet