It was bound to happen
Yesterday marked the end of the second full month of our memberships at the local gym. It’s gone mostly well and even the occasional off-days didn’t put me off much. I’ve had to take time off the rower due to struggles in the past week or so with stamina and pace. I’m sure it will be fine later on. After taking it easy for a couple days I decided to go for the spin “class” in the fitness on demand room. It’s essentially a video class but with the fancy equipment. One of the spin bike positions has you leaning across the handlebars in “aero” position and at this point I got a sharp pain shooting down my arm from my shoulder. Stopping and starting again didn’t help so I avoided that position and made a couple other adaptations to the exercise and got through the class.
I must admit to getting anxious about heart issues as I recalled something like this as a symptom of heart attack. I decided I’d just take it easy through the rest of my exercise and see how things went. Later on I worked out that that the issue must be my shoulder because each time I moved my arms in certain positions I’d get the pain again. Also there’s a very tender spot on the shoulder which reminded me I’ve had repeated injuries to the shoulder over the past ten or fifteen years and most were never properly treated. I’m trying to get in to see my physio and see what I’ve done this time. Meanwhile I will stick with safer exercises like the treadmill and exercise bike so some healing can occur.
2 Comments
Valerie
I know what you mean about how it can be hard to tell a mechanical pain from a possible heart problem. The time it happened to me was on the day that my son Corbin was born. I had a horrible cough that, in a more-than-eight-months-pregnant body, kept causing pulled muscles in my torso. One of those pulled muscles seemed like it could fit the descriptions of heart trouble. But in the end it turned out to be a pulled muscle and not a heart problem — for which I am eternally grateful.
Anyway, I’m glad yours turned out to be a pulled muscle and not a heart problem!!!
Purple Lorikeet
I do recall you relating that experience, Valerie, although I had forgotten about it. That would have been quite alarming, especially when you are having a baby.
This reminds me of an experience I had when Game Fanatic was a baby. I was on a bus with him and started getting some terrible pains and was worried enough I asked for help. The bus driver called an ambulance and I was taken away to the hospital and hooked up to heart monitors and such. Never was clear what the issue was but it went away about as quickly as it started. I felt really foolish for being so worried but I suppose it was better to be a false alarm than ignore symptoms.
I don’t recall what I thought was happening at the time and I was a bit surprised at all the heart checks that were done. My regular doctor at the time suggested it might have been my gallbladder and what I recall of that experience was similar to the attacks I had a couple years ago but I couldn’t be sure it was the same.