Anyone get pain in their forearm near the elbow from swimming? I thought it was muscular but it’s been there for a few weeks so maybe it’s tendonitis???
No, and I don’t know if what you have is tendonitis, but if you think it might be, go get it checked out, sooner rather than later. My wife got tendonitis last year, and she kept putting off having it looked at, and when she finally got it checked out, it took forever to heal. I mean, it took so long that her other elbow was starting to get sore from over-use.
An ounce of prevention, blah blah blah.
There are some muscles that run between the ulna and radius, and it could be those. I used to have pain in this area the first hundred yards I swam, then it would go away. If pain increases during exercise, or worsens after exercise, you’d better at least ice the heck out of it. Have a professional look at it if it doesn’t get better quickly with ice therapy. If it goes away with exercise, it usually isn’t severe enough to stop exercising; yet. But, it need some TLC (tender Loving COLD).
Agree with Yaquicarbo that if it goes away with swimming, you can probably get better with constant ice afterwards. If it’s nagging the whole time you’re swimming, it’s probably going to get worse with continued swimming. If that’s the case, it could be a tendonitis-related injury and those always get worse the longer you neglect them.
I had this problem a few years ago and I actually attributed it to doing open turns. I’d been grabbing the wall and turning with my right arm forever, and that’s right where the pain started to show up- in the forearm right before the elbow. My solution was to start using the left arm for turns, and eventually use flip-turns more routinely. Over time it went away.