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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
You can get to 225. You can get to 250 if you try.
And in return, you will get shoulder pain that wakes you in the middle of the night.
I was cranking up the numbers like crazy, as putting on muscle makes it easier to keep off weight. Then, about six months ago, out of the blue, the pain started. Aleve kills off some of it, but man... it's like my arms and shoulders just said, "Nope. You're an old fuck. We're not having this shit anymore."
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My husband had rotator cuff surgery last week. It's been awful to watch the recovery (six weeks in a sling, including sleep, followed by three months of PT), but the ligament was hanging by a thread and it would have been inoperable if he'd waited any longer. At first, he was trying to keep off the pain pills as much as possible but that went out the window on day two. In one of the funnier emails I've ever read, his mother told him to find a friend who could get him some marijuana ("this from the woman who used to throw away my stash") to keep him off the opioids. He's a good son, but he still takes the oxycontin every six hours.
Since he's a yoga instructor, he kinda needs to use the shoulder. His doc said that it is an injury he sees from repeated activity (golfers, tennis players, pitchers get this particular tear). I think it's from a) a lifetime of physical jobs, b) a fuckton of power yoga in the last three years, and c) being 45 years old in yoga teacher training with a bunch of 25 years olds and trying to keep up. I also think that power yoga doesn't focus as much on alignment and that can get people into bad habits/trouble. Again, it's probably ok(ish) when you're 25, but at 45 it's gonna make you end up in the OR. The orthos in 20 years are going to see a lot of these.
If the pain is persistent and doesn't go away after weeks of rest, go get it checked out.
