What I thought was a lingering shoulder injury from last cross season could be something a heck of a lot more.

So, I finally decided to see someone about the nagging ache in my shoulder after talking with my general practitioner last week. I had some flex comp money to burn so why not? I wasn’t ten minutes into tonight’s appointment when the room started to go black (and it wasn’t a power outage). At that time, the therapist was standing behind me and had her right hand massaging my left shoulder muscles while her left hand was moving my left arm across my body. We waited until I felt better (about a minute) and resumed the evaluation. Same thing. I got extremely hot (like it was 4000 degrees), I couldn’t hear and everything went black. This time I officially “checked out”. Scared the crap out of her!

Tried to replicate the situation with my right arm and couldn’t. Just for the heck of it, I made her do my left arm again. Whammo!
So needless to say, she wanted me to go to the ER, pronto. I talked her out of it with the promise I’d call my general practitioner.

I was able to get a hold of my G.P. after hours and had to promise him that I would go to the E.R. if it happened again. Evidently he was concerned enough to ask me to come in at 9am.

Both the therapist and my regular doctor think my passing out is related to a loss of blood to the brain when my arm is in a particular position.

Great… I’m sure this appointment tomorrow will be the first of many.

While there is some discomfort while she was manipulating my shoulder, there is absolutly no pain. Why was my body shutting down every time?

Yes, I had eaten, yes I was hydrated, No I'm not pregnant, and no it doesn't do it with my right arm, only my left.

Googling does no good. Guess I'll have to find out what he says tomorrow. I've got racing to do at the USGP this weekend so I'll kick him if he tells me I can't race! Only thing worse than not going to a race is watching from the sidelines.


Jeni –
Hey, want to see my new trick?