What exactly does "achy" mean?
Are your joints sore? Is it the muscles that have been pushed and stretched? Is it a sharp, trauma pain? How about a buzzing nerve pain?
My guess is that probably your muscles are sore. I always look upon that as the best kind of pain, it means the body is getting stronger!
It also might be joint pain, like osteo arthritis. It is a cold, flat kind of pain, and do try Glucosamune Sulfate. I've been taking it since I got RA 18 years ago. I was trying to stop the OA damage secondary to the RA. My husband has a very strong form
of OA and he has had less stiffness and lumps growing on his hand joints.
I started working out daily in 2005 when I got on goods meds. Despite 8 years of RA damage and OA, I never used wraps. I worked up my biking time, stretches and weights and I felt good.
When I dislocated my knee in 2012 when a car hit me while riding my bicycle, the physiotherapist had me tape that knee a certain way, so it would heal the right way. I wore wrist splints after I broke my wrist riding my bike in 2014. But I do not work out with those splints, because they are big and bulky and get in the way.
One thing I do have to do is wrap both knees with a tensor bandage. It isn't much, just enough to keep the knee caps stable.
I would think that wraps would take some strain of your muscles, but in doing so, then the muscles will not get stronger. That's another reason I won't wear wrist splints when exercising. Because I want my body to do the job, not a wrap or splint.
If the achyness continues, I would talk to your doctor. I was doing 17.5 free weights for a while, then suddenly, I could not lift them,, despite being dedicated in my regime. I backed off to 15 lbs, then 12.5. Here wasn't a lot of pain, but I just lost the strength to lift them, for what seemed like no reason.
A couple of years later I went to a pain management clinic, because I am was going to go through a three month wait for a new biologic to work. The doctor poked me in my upper arm at one point, and the pain was so bad, I jumped out of the chair. All my other trigger points were bad, too. I was diagnosed with fibromyalgia and put on meds. I got back up to 15 lbs weights, but I never could get back to the 17.5 lb weights!
Do you might want to get that checked out. Fibromyalgia, I mean!
My personal opinion is that we should not use splints, wraps etc, unless there is actual joint or muscle damage whuch needs support. You aren't that old yet, I was certainly liftung weights with no pain when I was your age. I do have pain now when I work out, but that is because of the disease!
PS. Please do not send me info on how to reduce pain and inflammation cures. Reducing inflammation, while it doesn't hurt as much, will lead to more and worse deformities. My goal is to get my body to stop attacking itself by stopping the production of sediments and nodules in the bone marrow, which are then released into the blood stream and get lodged in joints, the brain, skin, blood vessels, heart and kidneys. Just imagine ball bearings inserted into a foot, and showing up on an X-ray as round silver balls. The only thing that can stop the kind of damage and resulting pain I am am currently experiencing is to stop the disease, not cover it up!
But prayers are coveted!
(Which is all of them) lol
