Just chevking in with you all re: your experience with spasticity. I have had the most puzzling pain develop in my left arm/shoulder. It is the muscle that ties in to the bicep and can be felt to the left of the shoulder in the upper arm. For the last four days it has felt sore, tight, hard, swollen, and tender to the touch. I could not remember hurting myself there.
Despite having recently lifted weights on the machines at the Y, it does not feel like the soreness I typically feel from a workout. And if it WAS that, it should have been on both sides because the machine works both arms simultaneously.
I decided to wait and see what happened if I did nothing, and tonight it seems less painful. It occurred to me that if this was spasticity, a botox injection might have lessened the tightness and it would have solved my puzzle.
Does spasticity like to manifest itself in such a localized manner- just one muscle? Hang around for about a week then subside on its own? And what was with the swollen appearance? I wondered if I'd acquired an infection of some kind, even though I could not find any evidence of skin involvement, like a bite or scratches. So weird.
Despite having recently lifted weights on the machines at the Y, it does not feel like the soreness I typically feel from a workout. And if it WAS that, it should have been on both sides because the machine works both arms simultaneously.
I decided to wait and see what happened if I did nothing, and tonight it seems less painful. It occurred to me that if this was spasticity, a botox injection might have lessened the tightness and it would have solved my puzzle.
Does spasticity like to manifest itself in such a localized manner- just one muscle? Hang around for about a week then subside on its own? And what was with the swollen appearance? I wondered if I'd acquired an infection of some kind, even though I could not find any evidence of skin involvement, like a bite or scratches. So weird.
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