Compressed Nerves

 

I’ve had Fibro for well over ten years (Lost count, gave up trying to keep track) along with asthma and CFS.

 

The last 18 months or so I’ve been getting repeatedly compressed nerves in my should (Ulnar and Median). It seems to me like it’s the shoulder muscles contracting so hard that it’s them squishing the nerve.

 

When the nerve gets smooshed the only way to relieve it is myotherapy on the shoulder. Once the lovely lady find the right spot to stick her thumb, and my entire shoulder explodes in pain, the muscles relax and the nerve seems to come free.

Then it’ll tighten up again a few days later, and the whole process repeats.

 

I find that when my asthma’s been bad and the shoulder muscles have been over worked cos I’m breathing differently the nerve compression is a lot worse.

 

Is it actually possible for the muscles to be contracting to the point that they’re smooshing the nerves?  

I've had my yoga teacher run me through all the shoulder stretches for it, and they've been great. I never realised how much mobility I’d lost in my shoulders until I started yoga again this year. I have noticed that the nerves aren’t compressing as regularly since I’ve been doing yoga.


The odd thing is the shoulder I sleep on is fine. I always sleep on my back or on my right side, and it’s my left shoulder that’s playing up. I always thought I slept with it pretty straight, but apparently I use that arm to latch onto the doona and pull it around me, and then refuse to let go. (I also apparently swear like a trooper in my sleep when my partner tries to get the doona back... But I figure that if he doesn't want to be sworn at he can get his own doona *Shrug.)

I’ll give the towel trick a go tonight, thanks for the tip