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What is the most unhelpful advice you have received?
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When I would have a problem with my body like shoulder impingement and ask for advice, I would often be told by people "nah, you're too young too have that"
My wife (in her 30s) got shingles and doctors / people at the pharmacy said the same thing. "only people over 50 get that!"
She was in a lot of pain. 0/10 would not recommend getting shingles.
Yeah I got shingles at the age of 42, apparently extremely high stress/anxiety can trigger it. I agree, that shit sucks.
Strange, my friend got that when a teenager and doctors said yup, that's chicken pox round 2, makes sense.
Hey, what did you end up doing about that? I allegedly have one in my left shoulder and the doctor is acting like there’s not really anything I can do about it.
It bugs me when told "nothing you can do" what they really mean is "the problem is chronic so the recovery will take a long time. Patient compliance is often very low and most people won't last the months required for a solution so I'm not going to waste my time. I can help more people if I focus my efforts elsewhere." If you're willing to put in the time, you can fix this. And I suggest you do, if you do nothing impingement inflames each time it happens, decreasing the space in your shoulder, increasing the likelihood, etc.
I saw a physio, they gave me some exercises which didn't help. I did a bunch of reading online and followed that advice and it worked.
https://www.healthline.com/health/sleeper-stretch
I had quite bad impingement from months of poor exercise selection at the gym. Changed the routine to be balanced internal/external rotation, did 1/2 above 1-2 times a day. Took a few months but now it's completely better. I still do the stretching as a prehab now.