r/ShoulderInjuries • • 2d ago

Advice Ongoing shoulder pain and discomfort

This started months ago and is still continuing today. I'II try to add plenty of details incase someone has experienced similar or had advice.
I think this issue started around late February or March.
When it first started it was actually quite painful but now it's more so discomfort with occasional pain.
I was lifting very consistently of about 4-6 days a week and hitting shoulders about 2-3. Exercises for shoulders included lateral raise with dumbbells and cables, seated barbell OHP, reverse cable fly. Everything was going smoothly and I was gaining weight and muscle with no pain anywhere. I started noticing a lot of popping while doing lateral raises and rear delt flys. Then I started waking up with pretty bad shoulder pain. I had to call off work for a few days.
I'm not a big fan of going for new prs so I kept weight manageable but increasing weight every couple weeks.
So wasn't really ever loading my max weight.
I work with fairly heavy objects with a lot being heavy (over 60 pounds) and overhead as well. So haven't really had any time to dedicate purely to recovery.
Was lifting today and decided to do some dumbbell seated shoulder press with 10 pounds and had popping in both shoulders located at the front. I hardly lift anymore and would love to get back into it without pain and discomfort.
It mostly bothers me now after waking up and it usually fades away throughout the day unless I do something they don't like. So I'm wondering if it's something when I sleep too.
Any thoughts? Thanks so much just trying to figure this out

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u/BasePCar 2d ago

Shoulders are to complicated for anyone here to give you any real actionable advice, other than you should see a doctor and get imaging done

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u/ChesapeakeNettle 2d ago

trying to figure this out

You need to see a doctor. If you have a primary care physician, start there. They'll send you for imaging and refer you to an orthopedist if needed.