I think I pinched a
I think I pinched a nerve between my left shoulder blade and spine. I started having periodic sharp pain in that location months ago and always attributed it to lugging a heavy laptop bag around. I even took all the extra goodies out of my bag that you would expect to find there (extra patch cords, spare lithium ion batteries, etc.) in an attempt to lighten the load even just a bit. It will go away for a few weeks and return, but recently it's lingered. I am not keen on seeing a chiropractor because I had a good friend from high school that went for an adjustment in the late 90's and had a lobe of his vertebrae snapped off... permanent damage. I'm not sure where I was going with that... I probably just mentioned it because I'm in pain. I am so glad it's Friday. It's not that it has been a extraordinarily long week... I mean, I took Wednesday off... it's just that work is so unbearable. I saw paperwork yesterday where my boss has listed Joe and I as fractional full time employees on the paperwork being developed for the outsourcing evaluators. I have not worked a 40 hour work week since I started with the company. Joe and I do not only our jobs, but the jobs of others. We pick up other peoples slack all over the company. We take calls on nights and weekends... holidays... no matter. It is becoming readily apparent that the books are intended to be cooked to make outsourcing look like the better option. I feel the at some senior executive level, the decision has been made and all this time tracking and job justification with "The Bobs" is only a paper trail to show due process... much like documentation of council and progressive reprimand before termination. It's chickenshit if you ask me. I'm going to ask my boss how he calculated his percent FTE on the document today, but I doubt I'll get better than a politician's answer. The sky looks hazy today. Yay! An ozone warning day. Fucking smog.
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Jesus. Just this morning I woke up with a pinched nerve type of thing at my neck and left shoulder. This was the beginning of the day and twelve hours later, I still have it. Ugh. You must have a voodoo doll or something.
do you spend long periods of time on the phone? with the handset clutched between your ear and your shoulder? i did. it became unbearably painful and i ended up doing something i SWORE i would NEVER do again. i’d been free for over 5 years… after 15+ years of wearing one as a telephone operator, i put a damn headset on again. buh-bye shoulder/neck pain. hallo stooopid headset ... sigh ...
Actually, I have exactly (possibly) the same pain and after trying chiropractors and god-knows-what I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s the computer - and specifically using a laptop - that’s to blame.
Recently I stopped using the laptop and put my monitor on a high shelf so it’s eye-level. I also pay more attention to how I use the mouse. Rather than trying to sit up straight, I now lean back in my chair with my right arm outstretched somewhat. I also sometimes use my mouse in front of my keyboard (easiest with a wireless, of course), but varying the location of the mouse seems to help.
Result is, I don’t often have that pain anymore. By the way, I learned all this from a link that Michael sent me so maybe he can remember what it was (the emails are on the dreaded laptop somewhere) and send it to you.
Seriously! The difference is remarkable. It’s the slumping forward combined with the right arm position, you see…
Of course, if you’re left-handed the whole theory goes out the window.
I get something similar, only in my lower back. From lifting my big fat son. Okay maybe I shouldn’t have called him that. But damn it, he’s giving me back pain.
The only thing that really helped me is to have someone rub it. Also, my dad gave me some serious painkillers. I’ll mail you one for a dollar.
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