Shoulder pain

[All This Time]

Ok so im quite prone to pulling muscles and not knowing how i did it.

So ive done something to my shoulder, im pretty sure i pulled a muscle becuse it hurts when i move certian ways. Anyway it felt much better yesterday but today it just hurts evertime i move it.

I was wondering what is the best medicine to take, or is a mixture of certain tablets better. Also would deep heat rub work as well?

Thanks.

[Bitter_Angel]

A deep heat rub will help.
Also if you can take ibprofen then you should take them regular. You might also want to take paracetamol in between the ibprofen. If you find it is still causing pain you could buy some co codamol which is codiene and paracetamol together so it is stronger than the paracetamol alone.

[88shelz]

i find someone massaging the pulled muscle helpful also relax in a salt bath with hot hot water

[All This Time]

Thanks.

Its feeling alot less painful now. Thanks for the advice.

[ChocolateMarvel]

Sorry to hijack this thread but I was just going to post in relation to something similar and it seemed silly to start a new thread! I have had bad shoulder pain for over a week, and its affecting my elbow and right down my arm as well now and starting to make parts of my back ache! I have had similar pains before and went to the doctor who advised me to take ibuprofen etc and rest it, so rather than go, I have taken ibuprofen, cocodamol and used some gel stuff and its still hurting. I have been resting it and trying not to lay on it or put any pressure on it because that is when it is worst but its a constant dull ache which goes to sharp pains if pressure is applied or if its put in the wrong position!Basically, does anyone have any ideas not already shared that can get me through the weekend at least...thinking I will go and see my GP but not sure they can do anything and have been there WAY too much lately!?! Any advice would be appreciated!! x

[Animad]

^^^chocolatelover;

You should definately go to your GP next week or you coud try going to an out of hours GP/ walk in centre this weekend if you want due to it having gone on for more than a couple of days now and it worsening rather than improving.

Basically when one bit starts hurting you either use other parts of your body differently to compensate or other muscles step in more to compensate. Both of these things mean your muscles work differently to what they usually do and often to what they should do and that may be why it is spreading. For your elbow as it has spread down there I would be inclined to say stick a tubigrip bandage on it; size D for 'average' elbows (C for small, E for large) remembering to take it off at night though. I'd be careful with the gel you're using as a lot of Deep Heat Gels + Ibuprofen/ Volterol Gels can't be used with Ibuprofen because they have similar components in them so if it says on the pack not to take with NSAIDs then you can't use them and take Ibuprofen. I'd be inclined to say as it is spreading over a large area take the tablets rather than use the gel.

Heat pads/ hot water bottles have to be one of the best things for muscle pains and if used correctly can be as effective, if not more so than Ibuprofen and obviously use no medications.

[flying[star]]

If it keeps hurting for a redicliously long time, however, you might want to get checked out just in case you didn't do soemething *worse* than just pulling a muscle.
no real need to add on to what the faa's said otherwhise.