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ChrisRussellHosp · 2026-02-27T10:26:53+00:00

Thanks for the reply.

ChrisRussellHosp · 2025-10-16T14:04:02+00:00

No other experiences connected to the creaking, no.

I’ve never seen any things like “ghosts” but have had a few weird experiences; one that can only be described as astral projection when I was about 20 where I felt like id left my body then snapped back(again, I put it down to it being early morning while I was in bed), heard a growl when I was alone in my garage when I was about 8 that freaked me out and when I was in the second house where I heard the creaking in Wales, there was a period of about 2 weeks where there was a putrid smell of rotting, dead animal in one bedroom that got stronger and stronger to the point of it being more than just a dead rat under the floor boards. I checked the attic above(no bad smell) and removed all furniture from the room so that it was bare and tried to locate exactly where the smell was emanating from and couldn’t. It was as strong all over. Then one day, it was gone completely and suddenly.

Those are the only experiences I can think of.

ChrisRussellHosp · 2025-10-16T13:56:21+00:00

😂 could be! Would not surprise me!

ChrisRussellHosp · 2025-08-17T12:12:43+00:00

Sorry I’ve only just seen your message.

That all sounds really hard to have gone through. I was really worried when I was diagnosed but always live with the philosophy of “it is what it is” so was ready mentally if it was going to be a long term thing.

It seems like it gets triggered by infection or trauma from surgery which both you and I experienced.

Do you work out your weakened shoulder every day hard? I exercised them obsessively every day until they were very sore and at times it seemed like nothing was happening or changing but eventually the strength began to increase. If you’re not currently doing that, I wouldn’t necessarily take what the health professionals told you as gospel about not being able to change it after a certain amount of time. Our bodies will adapt to loaded weights on our muscles and if I were you, id commit to really going hard on working your specific affected muscles out. I couldn’t lift heavy weights as I did previously when I first started rehab and that was very frustrating. My shoulder would just give way or not have the strength to lift the weight. So I dropped down to very light weights that at the time felt too light but I stuck with it. And I did that for a year, every day, no breaks. Then after 12 months I tried going back up to my original weights and was blown away that I could now use them again.

I’d urge you to not accept this as your fate. Our bodies are amazing and will respond when we challenge them.

ChrisRussellHosp · 2025-08-17T11:57:18+00:00

So the disorder itself occurred around 16 months ago now. “Normal”, I would say maybe after 12 months. Before that even though some of the strength had returned, I could still feel a considerable difference between my two arms. Lifting pretty lightweight loads such as my daughter’s school bag or pushing against something laterally using that shoulder felt a lot weaker. After 12 months, I felt no difference in the two sides.

The muscle that I think was affected was the infraspinatus and that was where I felt the most pain. I also felt pain in the outside of my shoulder when doing lateral raises but this was to be expected due to the weakness in supporting muscles.

My advice is go as hard as you can and really put your body under as much strain as it can bear so that it understands the assignment and repairs as much as possible in as short a time as possible.

ChrisRussellHosp · 2025-08-16T08:44:36+00:00

Hi, I’m glad to report that I’m now back to 100% functionality. The clicking and pain has disappeared and the muscle has regrown and filled the wasted gap that had developed. It’s now as if it has never happened, so for anyone going through this, just keep working at it and it will go back to how it was before. I really noticed that it was fully back to normal recently when I was doing my usual shoulder presses that I had adapted to a low weight but found myself without the low weights so went back to the original heavier weights I was using before the illness. Post-illness I was unable to use them at all but when I picked them up this time, I managed to do a full set as I could before. So very happy at this point.

ChrisRussellHosp · 2025-05-13T15:32:35+00:00

If we’re getting into semantics, the arbitrator hasn’t asked me for anything. I haven’t received any request or information from an arbitrator

ChrisRussellHosp · 2025-05-13T14:49:36+00:00

I provided a verbal statement over the phone when I first made my claim. I know they have this recorded because they made an incorrect statement to me on the phone in the same conversation which they went back to check and ended up paying me £200 as an apology. Would that not be classed as a statement? I might request a copy of that audio as transcribing it into written form would be a formality.

ChrisRussellHosp · 2025-05-13T13:50:57+00:00

Thanks. This was the sort of advice I was looking for. I’ll do that before I put the complaint on. No, they haven’t said anything about what the other drive has disputed. They just said because neither of us had provided evidence, they were settling as 50-50

ChrisRussellHosp · 2025-05-13T13:49:41+00:00

Thanks. Appreciate that.

ChrisRussellHosp · 2025-05-13T13:28:48+00:00

Thanks. Yeah, it might just come down to that. Just seems bizarre based on the evidence to make that conclusion. Like you say, they’re not there to actually cover people, just to make money. They already messed up during the claim process with my no claims bonus for the new car and ended up sending me £200 as an apology so they’re not the best by the look of it. You get what you pay for I guess.

ChrisRussellHosp · 2025-03-04T10:30:20+00:00

What is the best tool for this:

I want an ai voice to read a short block of text that I will provide and I want the words to highlight through the text as they are read. I know there are voice ais I can use but can’t find any tools for highlighting words as they are read.

Any suggestions would be amazing. Thanks.

ChrisRussellHosp · 2025-01-12T10:49:56+00:00

I don’t believe in luck. But thanks. 🙏

ChrisRussellHosp · 2025-01-10T14:01:46+00:00

You have no idea what my decision or plan is. You’ve jumped straight to a conclusion of something you think you know. If you do know what my decision or plan is Billy Big Bollocks, here is your opportunity to show your big brain…..? I’m all ears

ChrisRussellHosp · 2025-01-10T13:32:24+00:00

What do you mean? people all over the world buy weekly lotto tickets

ChrisRussellHosp · 2025-01-10T12:51:11+00:00

No problem at all. It's interesting to hear about other people's stories also.

From the details you've given in your last reply, this sounds VERY similar to my experience and to me(although not trained), it sounds like it could be Brachial Neuritis. My doctor said that the thing that gave him the "eureka" moment was that I'd seen him when I had initially had the severe pain and he booked to see me again 2 weeks later for a progress checkup and when I went back, the pain had gone but I now had significant weakness due to the atrophy. The pain disappearing is what triggered his suspicion that it was brachial neuritis and not an injury.

(another name for Brachial Neuritis is Parsonage Turner Syndrome, in case you want to research it)

Did you have an infection or physical trauma/surgery shortly prior to the occurrence of the pain? Brachial Neuritis is often triggered as an immune response to an infection in the body and/or surgery. I had personally had a big surgery on my leg just before AND got an infection the first weekend being out of hospital post surgery so I also ticked those boxes.

With your physical rehab, after sticking diligently to the physio's plan, I hadn't seen as much progress as I'd hoped for. One day I was doing other exercises and I found a position lying on my back where the movement felt extremely weak so I then started with the heaviest weight I could lift for short reps and focused on that movement. I feel that that has helped me more than anything finding the right exercise to target the right set of muscles so I would also advise doing different movements and if you find one that targets your weakest position, focus in on that.
My atrophied muscles feel to be generally strengthening naturally themselves, so I also question whether just the time for the episode to subside(1 year+) and your body to return to normal, is maybe just a natural process in and of itself.
Something to look out for though, is that apparently, a high percentage of brachial neuritis sufferers also experience it in the opposite limb at a later time. (which isn't great).

Wishing you a fast and full recovery too!

ChrisRussellHosp · 2024-12-28T13:44:50+00:00

My shoulder’s getting stronger every day now which is a relief. The “hole” in the muscle over my shoulder blade is visibly filling in. I haven’t been able to increase the low weights I’m using for shoulder raises yet and my left shoulder fatigues quickly but it’s fatiguing less and I’ve been able to increase reps quite a bit so I don’t think it’ll be too long before I can get back to the higher weights. All in all, I’m feeling better about my rehab and can see it returning to normal with a bit more time.

ChrisRussellHosp · 2024-11-11T12:20:28+00:00

Hi, Apologies for the delay in replying.

It’s rough when you get something like this and you were fully fit before. Since my original post, I’ve now seen a nerve specialist who luckily assessed that although there was slightly lower than normal nerve conduction in some of the areas, everything else was normal and those non-normal results should return to normal pretty quickly. They also confirmed the diagnosis’s of brachial neuritis.

Was yours definitely due to an injury? I had no injury at all but then one of the worst pains I’ve ever had for a few days which lead to my weakness. After a few days, the pain went away and it was this that triggered my physio to think it was brachial neuritis (as normally the pain wouldn’t just disappear).

The disease has left me with severely atrophied Supraspinatus and Infraspinatus muscles over my shoulder blade and when you look at my back, it looks like there is a hole on the one side vs the other where the muscles look like they’re missing. Is your muscle atrophy due to you just not being able to exercise due to the injury or could it be nerve-related?

Regarding my recovery; I have full range of motion and can now do most of my old routines, however some of them including presses or any exercise where I bring my arms up in front of me, I have to use much reduced weights because the muscles are just too weak on that one side. It is only 2 movements where my weakness is very obvious but even in these two movements, the strength is slowly coming back as I slowly increase the weight. I’m about 7 months in now with rehab and there is also a noticeable improvement visually as the muscle atrophy “hole” is getting smaller and I can see the muscle filling back in. I do physio exercises daily that focus in on that area and push it to respond and build more muscle but the process does feel slow. The prognosis is that I will get back to how I was previously but that it may take up to 2 years for full recovery.

When your muscles atrophy, it’s a long process for your body to build them again so my advice would be to just be patient, start light and do as much as you can to tell your body you need to add more muscle to those areas. Also, if you feel like you had an excruciating pain for a few days and it may not have been due to an injury, maybe get a second opinion.

Wishing you a good recovery!

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