shoulder bursitis - any tips for recovery?

Anyone else had this diagnosis? Doc put me on Anti-inflammatories Nov 11 and gave me the usual stretch band exercises and said it should go away in about a month. Hasn't happened. Guess I should have asked if I needed to stop swimming. I train mostly USRP (free and fly), so only about 2,000-2,500 3-4 days a week. The pain is not bad, as I had been swimming with it since the middle of Sept, but now I am worried if I continue to swim with the inflamed bursa sack that it might do some long term damage. So maybe for the next few weeks just do some fin kick sets and hit the bike at the gym, and more core work (yuck)???
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  • What kind of band exercises are you doing? Are you icing at all? In addition to the anti-inflammatories from the doc, have you tried taking anything else like turmeric? What's your diet like? Do you consume much dairy? There are many academic studies that point to dairy as an inflammatory, so you might try reducing or eliminating that from your diet to see if that helps.
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  • What kind of band exercises are you doing? Are you icing at all? In addition to the anti-inflammatories from the doc, have you tried taking anything else like turmeric? What's your diet like? Do you consume much dairy? There are many academic studies that point to dairy as an inflammatory, so you might try reducing or eliminating that from your diet to see if that helps.
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