This is the first time I've ever done this, which is funny, cause I swore I wouldn't.

Around 7 30 this morning I'm sleeping soundly in bed, on my back, when I heard this crack or pop. Similar to what you'd head when you crack your back/neck/fingers, only deeper. I think little of it. Then I go to move, and pain shoots all along my left shoulder. Ow. So after struggling a moment to sit up, (since I couldn't just simple SIT UP, I had to roll onto my side first) and trying to figure out what the hell just happened, and ensuring I haven't broken anything by moving around as much as the pain will let me, I go to the kitchen and grab two aspirin and an ice pack, and return to bed.

I don't so much sleep as doze, because it's hard to get comfortable without sending a wave of pain through my shoulder. Anyway, around 11 30 I get up again. Aspirin hasn't helped. Ice hasn't helped. Everyone here right now is thinking I pulled a muscle, or several. So far it isn't bad enough to warrant a visit to the doctor tomorrow, but if someone comes up with an explanation that's more serious, I'll reconsider. I have a heating pad on it now, and have for about the last hour. That's not doing too much yet.

This is like a triangle of pain. Starts around the middle of the left side of my neck, and runs most of the way down my shoulder before looping around back. This is more or less a deep pain too, poking and prodding doesn't yield much of "hey, that's were it hurts" it just hurts. Moving my arm also hurts like hell, that's to shoulder movement though.

Ideas? I'm going to go run and talk to WebMD now.

Sounds like your muscle exploded.

But seriously, it's probably muscle related. You either have a bunch of knots in that area, or you strained it too much somehow. I'd go see a doc.

its AIDS

(go see a professional who can physically examine you, armchair doctors arent much use)

Oh I realize that. This was more to see if what I was thinking was right (and WebMD seems to agree), and if I could do much more than take drugs and put ice/heat on it. WebMD says it's a pulled muscle, which made more sense and fit better than anything else it was suggesting. If it gets any worse than this, I'll definitely go see someone, but right now there's no point, as I'd probably walk in and pay money to find out the same thing, and be given the same treatment instructions.

yeah, i was gonna say pulled muscle, or perhaps a torn ligament?

It's murder!

Well it certainly FELT like murder when it woke me up.

Nope, not murder, just AIDs.

Damaged your deltoid?

And for our next episode of "Doctor Massassi..."

...We try to figure out what killed Grismath. Was it the Tomahawk to the skull or the porcupine barb in his chest.

Oddly enough the word BIOSHOCK was scrawled all over the corpse.

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Maybe it's a tumor...

It was a fish wrapped in bacon that obstructed the passage of air to his lungs, their fore suffocating him.

its never lupus.

CARDIAC ARREST