Ongoing pain after strain?

On Thursday evening I helped my wife move a heavy TV stand/dresser combo down a flight of stairs. My arms didn't hurt much that night, but since then my right arm has been really tender and sore to use. It hasn't really gotten any better with using a heating pad at every opportunity. My right underarm is very very tender, almost to the point that I can't put deodorant on.

I know I stressed it, but I can't believe it still hurts like this now. What the heck is going on? Has anyone else had this happen? We're moving this week so I don't have a choice but to keep using it to pack and help move things. What can I do to avoid such excessive pain?

I know what you mean. My daughter was in a bad car accident about a week ago and I've been having to help her bathe. So I've been bending over the bathtub to bathe her. Well my Fibro took that as an opportunity to settle in my lower back. Now it hurts as if I've really injured it and the pain just won't let up regardless of what I do. I've decided I just can't do things like this anymore. No stooping over for any period of time, no heavy lifting, etc. I realize that sometimes things need to be done that we shouldn't do and we have no choice but to do them ourselves; but we need to remember there will be painful consequences to pay. I am not sure what you can do to ease the pain. I wish I did know so that I could help both of us. Good luck to you! I just wanted you to know you are not alone in this.

We take longer than everybody else on the planet to recover. We also get micro-tears in our muscles so any strain/overuse issue has other abnormal components aside from over-excited neurotransmitters.

PS  could have aggravated a trigger point in there somewhere too which could be lending itself to more than normal pain and soreness.  Just a thought.  Hope you make it through the move alright.  Bed next week, right?  :)

Thanks for the input, everyone! I know I shouldn't have done it but it had to get downstairs and no one else was available to help. My wife's been getting upset with me for moving heavier things otherwise. I had knots up into my shoulder/neck that seem to have finally mostly let go overnight but still have tenderness in my arm and underarm that aren't usual. I will not be taking part in the actual moving, thank goodness, and will be keeping the moving boxes and stuff around to a minimum on the other end.

NotSoCrazyAfterAll-I guess it could have been a trigger point thing. My elbows are especially sensitive to pressure so I wonder if I didn't bother a point there. As for the micro-tears, that's really what it felt like, with the pain being a bit sharper than muscle overuse usually usually like. My arm muscles were tender to the touch, something I don't remember from overuse pain before. I've wondered if a minor injury would get "blown out of proportion" pain-wise with fibro. Apparently, it does.

Just wanted to say sorry that this is something you are dealing with but thanks for asking and sharing.  I've been dealing with that issue for a long time but never really was sure if it was a fibro thing.  It takes me forever to heal.  I did "something" to my shoulder last winter and it took months to get better, couldn't even lift a frying pan Fibro is really a strange one to have.

I was hand writing a paper for school. After holding the pen for about 3 hours, my right hand was so sore. It took about 2 weeks for my hand to stop hurting. After that, I learned to use Microsoft Word. Unfortunately, we do take much longer to heal.

I gardened for a couple of hours on Saturday. Apparently that was a bad idea. Since then the back of my legs have been in terrible pain, I can barely sit down or get up from a seated position. And I totally thought I was taking it easy and pacing myself!!!

In January, I slipped on some ice getting out of my car and strained my left calf muscle pretty bad. I'm still dealing with it!! Hurts like a son of a gun when I walk.  I've noticed that with other muscles that I've strained.  It takes forever (literally) to heal.  And for some reason it's very easy to re-injure the muscle doing menial, ordinary things.  Anyone else find that?