shoulder pain from sleeping style

[OpelCorsa]

Sometimes when I sleep on the side of my body (on shoulder), this known severe pain reveals itself in the arm-shoulder joint and bothers me ALOT. It reaches to a point wen I feel I am disabled from either left or right arm.

Painkillers help but temporarily. Warm-ups and exercises don't seem to help much. At my gym I was about to do my regular incline db press, but after I pressed once I just had to drop the weights because of this pain...

When there's no movement in my arm for a while the pain almost begins to kill me. But like I said, even warm-up doesn't do much; it reduces the pain and sorta allows me to at least move and rotate my arm easier but doesn't kill the pain...

Massage doesn't work either.

Any other ideas?
Thanks in advance...

[hyp3r3xt3nsion]

could be r/c injury? *Shrug*

stop lifting and get a scan for the shoulder, that isn't good an dtrying to lift on it will only increase damage if it's already damaged.

[willposeforcash]

It's probably lack of flexibility or tendonitis.

[progressive19]

Sounds like you damaged it previously. I'd either stop working it and see if it heals on its own or go see a doctor. You certainly don't want a permanantly weakened shoulder.

Can you remember an initial incident of intense pain while lifting? If it's not a true tear, the only other thing I can think of is that you subluxated your shoulder while bench or incline pressing.

Can you describe the location of the pain? Is it deep inside the shoulder or nearer to the surface? It might just be an impinged nerve.


prog19

[OnMyWay]

I had almost the exact symptoms. I'd wake up in the middle of the night "on my shoulder" with it in pain. It affected my workouts in regard to shoulder movements. It didn't affect benching until after.
I went to the ortho and was diagnosed with Bursitis.
Rest, Ice, anti-inflammatories, and a month layoff of heavy lifting. Now I just have spuratic flare-ups.

[Rokk]

Originally posted by OnMyWay
I had almost the exact symptoms. I'd wake up in the middle of the night "on my shoulder" with it in pain. It affected my workouts in regard to shoulder movements. It didn't affect benching until after.
I went to the ortho and was diagnosed with Bursitis.
Rest, Ice, anti-inflammatories, and a month layoff of heavy lifting. Now I just have spuratic flare-ups.

I had the same thing happen, aggravated an old shoulder injury. It was also diagnosed as bursitis. I would add stretching during your layoff. It helped me the most. I stretched in every direction and found the one that hurt the most, and concentrated on this one (for me it was reaching over my opposite shoulder). After a month I was able to lift gain, although it was a slow comeback. But I'll never doubt stretching again, since I couldn't even do a pushup before I started stretching.

[losercore]

i used to get the same thing, i stopped sleeping on my side because of it.