I had a deep tissue massage on Thursday as I had had a knot in my left shoulder blade after sleeping on a hard hotel bed a couple of days earlier.
Within a couple of hours of the massage the pain started in the shoulder blade, and then the pain continued through my shoulder, arm down to the wrist, armpit, and upper chest (all left side only).
The Pharmacist said it sounds like the therapist got a nerve and gave me Co-codamol as ibuprofen was doing nothing.
Two days on and I’m still in so much pain so I’m going to ring 111 tomorrow morning if it’s still like this to see if I can get better painkillers as the co-codamol is wearing off after two hours. I can’t sleep properly, or move freely. I’ve done nothing but sit on the sofa with a hot water bottle and trying to stay still (moving tends to make it worse, although it can be painful just sitting still). Sometimes the pain eases altogether for a while, comes back in certain places and not others etc.
Has anyone else experienced this? I’ve had a few massages before but not deep tissue - never again though, it’s just not worth this level of pain.
Background: I am on the NHS Neurology waiting list as I have long-term nerve pain on the right side at night-time, but this is even worse than that!
Re the chest pain - I am a bit worried about this but the pharmacist thought it was related to the other painful areas, plus years ago I had chest pain for two weeks and the GP said it was not a heart attack otherwise ‘something bad would have happened by now.’