Recovering from shoulder surgery; feeling crummy...
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and actually considering giving up swimming. I am so discouraged these days....
I fell and hurt my shoulder about 9 years ago. I didn't have surgery at the time (was told I didn't need it) and thought I healed correctly. Fast forward to today...after swimming 6 years I start to feel an ache in my "bad" shoulder when I swim longer than a mile. So off to the sports med doc I go....I get an MRI which looks like I might have torn cartilage, which is causing the pain. Surgery is scheduled....they find nothing. Nothing is torn; nothing to fix. So now I will have to swim with the pain....
I know that some of the tension is a result of an imbalance in my freestyle...I always breath to my left, which means I pull harder with my strong (right) side. When I try to breath to the right it all falls apart. I don't feel balanced in the water; I am sure there are a million things wrong with my stroke...I should kick more...blah blah blah.
I just started swimming again...been in the water for the last few days and I am very discouraged. I'd love to hear from folks out there who have taught themselves to breath to their uncomfortable side.... and how you did it, how long it took, etc.
Anyone else out there going through a discouraging time...or if you have in the past, how'd you get over it?
Ande - what are your thoughts?
I used to box...maybe I should just go back to the ring and stay out of the water....:(
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Hi Beth....thanks so much for the post. When my shoulder hurts, it aches deep inside near where my clavicle and top of my shoulder should meet (make sense?) - due to the initial injury, my clavicle sticks up. Looks really weird.
The doc thought that I might have a SLAP lesion (still not sure what that means) but once they got inside and poked around - nothing - clean as a whistle.
Fortunately, I have been lifting weights steadily for 2 years and when I take a week off, the pain comes back. Sometimes my arm goes numb if I swim longer than a mile.....
I will try to be patient with myself. This is really hard for me to do, so wish me luck!
BillS - Hmmmmmmmm. I like the announcer idea....! I for sure need to get that critical committee outa my brain....
Hi Beth....thanks so much for the post. When my shoulder hurts, it aches deep inside near where my clavicle and top of my shoulder should meet (make sense?) - due to the initial injury, my clavicle sticks up. Looks really weird.
The doc thought that I might have a SLAP lesion (still not sure what that means) but once they got inside and poked around - nothing - clean as a whistle.
Fortunately, I have been lifting weights steadily for 2 years and when I take a week off, the pain comes back. Sometimes my arm goes numb if I swim longer than a mile.....
I will try to be patient with myself. This is really hard for me to do, so wish me luck!
BillS - Hmmmmmmmm. I like the announcer idea....! I for sure need to get that critical committee outa my brain....
