Well first, I can't really afford to go to the doctor for stuff that isn't serious so if no one has any idea here I'm just gonna have to live with it, at least until my next scheduled appointment to get refills on my medication.
Anyways, for the past 2-3 weeks I've been having arm pain develop while I'm sleeping. It doesn't feel like I'm sleeping on it wrong, it's a really deep pain, almost feels like it's in the bone. Doesn't really feel like muscle pain. It's centered midway in the upper arm on the back side. Mostly only hurts when I twist my arm to an extreme angle (like pushing my elbow in towards my body) or when I pull my arm back towards my back (maybe 30-45 degrees) but it's not limited to that. At night it hurts a lot worse, but once I'm up and active it starts fading. It's almost non-existent by the time I get ready for bed. But at some point in the middle of the night I'll be turning over and move just the right way and get a very sharp pain, and it'll stay with me for the entire next cycle.
It's really odd, I've never really had anything like this happen before. Just wondering if anyone has or knows what it might be. The first couple of nights I just assumed I'd slept on it wrong, but it's been going on for weeks now.
I didn't injure or strain myself before it started. It just kinda happened out of the middle of nowhere.
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I do a sort of regimen of various exercises when I think to, although a lot of time it's just hiking a few miles every day and climbing. . I basically took a mixture of aikido, tai chi warm up exercises, yoga, and other tricks I've learned over the years. . .
Movement can be very good - just to get the muscles limber. . even jumping jacks can be great..
It may sound funny but simply walking at 2-3 miles each day (or more) can be really great. . when I was a kid, a professor friend of mine shared the idea that walking is the best exercise. . always stayed with me as a memory. .
Besides that, stretching, jumping jacks might help, and again, just movement and stuff..
In Aikido one of the warm up exercises are to loosen and relax the muscles, raising the arms over the head, the bringing them down, you kind of - lightly - throw them downward and out, but in a way to relax them. . . another is simply to sort of shake the hands downward (also from aikido, to release tension and energy), various things like this.
Tai Chi has a very similar motion with the arms, only it's done in very slow-motion, alongside long, slow inhalation and exhalation of the breath.
Just in general, stretching, loosen and relax the muscles and body, these are really, really useful to health in all sorts of ways. . just stretch, relax them and move around in all directions, so you practice going through the full range of movement.
Relaxation is sort of the secret to everything, in a sense. If you can deeply relax all the muscles, that can be the most healing thing to the body, as well as mind and spirit.
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