Been suffering from a mysterious back muscle pain (right beneath my right shoulderblade, midback) for just about 2 weeks now.

Only thing I can think is I stressed it in a collision with a doorjamb and didn't even notice the pain for a few days. But gods, I notice it now! Its not so bad in the mornings, but gradually throughout the day it becomes agonizing.

Sitting still makes it hurt.
Moving repetatively/stretching makes it hurt.
Randon moving about - Doesn't hurt as much (but still hurts).

Thursday night (6-21-07) about the time I was getting downright irrational about the pain, I finally went to the doctors, got a shot that hurt enough to make me forget the pain, and perscribed 3x the amount of ibuprofin I'd been taking, along with Robaxin twice a day as a muscle relaxant? It kinda works, but not perfectly (took about 2 days for the shot to wear off and the pain to return). Stuff makes me a little loopy, forgetful (moreso than usual), and you can't drive after taking it. Bleah!

Its distracting to say the least, and I either sleep, or watch TV, to lessen the experience - videogames don't even quite do it for me in the meantime.

I just hope to god its healing, whatever the hell it is - I normally have a pretty low pain threshold/tolerance to begin with (I've gone into shock over the stupidest of injuries - but usually more than a papercut's worth of bleeding does it to me more than anything), so I can't imagine how people suffering -really- nasty physical pain can handle it day in day out. Yeeghods.

Anyways, just fyi, so my sudden lack of output at least has a name behind it. I'll try to resume practicing/etc. when I can, muddle through as best I can - make art my distraction - but the thought of suddenly having pain -influence- the nature of what I draw kinda bothers me too.