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This may seem like a silly question but here goes.
For more than a couple of days (certainly more than the whole of today and yesterday, day before as well I think), my abdomen has been feeling tender. I have Crohn's disease so my gut not being happy about something would hardly be a newsflash, but these symptoms are unusual for me. It feels like the slightest movement affecting that area produces a 'twinge' type of discomfort. I think it probably is gut related because of how non-specific the area is (though maybe a more consistent tender area is equi-distant between my belly button and my right side).
However, I'm wondering whether it might be some kind of pulled muscle because while I've been doing slow press-ups for some time now (holding the lowest position for a couple of seconds, then all the other part of the exercise is slow), I recently started using a couple of light weights for bicep work as well as an exercise movement that I would liken to the arm movements one would do during the butterfly stroke when swimming. Yesterday I stopped the exercises to see if the tenderness would go away but nothing seems to have changed.
I'm acquainted with the feeling of a generic abdomen muscle pull, ie. a lot of discomfort when using abdomen muscles primarily for moving from lying on one's back to an upright position, but this discomfort doesn't seem to consistently be triggered if I try to find a movement that triggers it. It's more like the temporary tenseness when getting ready to change positions seems to trigger it, but I just can't put my finger on it.
For more than a couple of days (certainly more than the whole of today and yesterday, day before as well I think), my abdomen has been feeling tender. I have Crohn's disease so my gut not being happy about something would hardly be a newsflash, but these symptoms are unusual for me. It feels like the slightest movement affecting that area produces a 'twinge' type of discomfort. I think it probably is gut related because of how non-specific the area is (though maybe a more consistent tender area is equi-distant between my belly button and my right side).
However, I'm wondering whether it might be some kind of pulled muscle because while I've been doing slow press-ups for some time now (holding the lowest position for a couple of seconds, then all the other part of the exercise is slow), I recently started using a couple of light weights for bicep work as well as an exercise movement that I would liken to the arm movements one would do during the butterfly stroke when swimming. Yesterday I stopped the exercises to see if the tenderness would go away but nothing seems to have changed.
I'm acquainted with the feeling of a generic abdomen muscle pull, ie. a lot of discomfort when using abdomen muscles primarily for moving from lying on one's back to an upright position, but this discomfort doesn't seem to consistently be triggered if I try to find a movement that triggers it. It's more like the temporary tenseness when getting ready to change positions seems to trigger it, but I just can't put my finger on it.
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