Pain on my Pec???

Today while doing incline bench press with the smith machine I think I tore a pec mucsle on my left side. I felt a pop as I was going up. I can feel the pain right in front of my arm pit. I did a light warm up before I hit the heavy weight. I tried lowering the weight but even with light weight I felt the pain in my left pec/shoulder. Do you think I should have the doc check it out or should I give it a couple days and see how it feels. What can I do to heal this as soon as possible. I'm on on last weeks of 75mg Fina/ed, 50mg Winny/ed and 400mg EQ/week if it matters.

IF you tore it, it would have immediatly swelled up and looked like a nasty ass bruise. Most likely you strained it, i would rest it for a week or 2 and see how it feels. If your pec starts to look discolored or become very painful though, go to the doc ASAP.

You dont want to mess with a torn pec it will take u out of commission for a while. One of my friends tore a pec its not a pretty situation.

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Originally Posted by skii96

IF you tore it, it would have immediatly swelled up and looked like a nasty ass bruise. Most likely you strained it, i would rest it for a week or 2 and see how it feels. If your pec starts to look discolored or become very painful though, go to the doc ASAP.

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Well the area is not bruised of swelled up so I will give it a couple days and see how it looks. I'm taking glucosimine, Ibprofin, and have a heat pad on it. Should I stay off the weight completely or just the chest and shoulders.

U could have minorly tore it but my bet is u strained some of the tendons and ligaments that connec ur pec to ur shoulder area, take rest, and stretch proprelly and if the pain continues proceed to have a othropidic specialist check it out.

i tore my pec and it did not bruise at all. and yes the tear was infront of my armpit and went down though my right pec