A few months ago my shoulder was bugging me, so I mentioned it to my Doc when I was in for a check up. I first really noticed it when I was driving, backing up, and I braced my arm on the seat next to me to turn around to see when I'm going. It also hurts when I do the usual morning stretch - you know both arms up in the air, tense everything up, take a deep breath. My Doc did some range of motion tests and said it isn't the rotator cuff, take Motrin for pain, figure out what irritates it, and don't do that. Well that was a few months ago, and it still hurts. I'm tired of it.

I did see a masseuse, and she said my pecs were really tight. She worked on my neck and shoulder muscles to loosen things up, then gave me some exercises - reach out to the side, grab door frame, elbow down, and slllooowwwllly twist away. Hold for 10-15 seconds. Owie, owie, owie.

Well I've been doing that, and rubbing IcyHot on my shoulder to get some pain relief. But I'm tired of the constant annoying ache. Is this something that took time to tork and will take and equally long time to heal? or am I just falling apart? Welcome to middle age?