Originally Posted by
Carbonfiberboy
This is a difficult to diagnose disease, but your complaints do fit it. How old are you? Hardly anyone under 50 every gets it, it's most common in those over 70, but my buddy is 62. Low T fits. Achy legs fit. When you hold your arms by your sides and raise them in front of you to over your head, do your shoulders hurt? Is it difficult to make a fist? Are your hands swollen? Does your pain keep you awake at night, make it hard to roll over? Is the worst time of your day by far the first hour after rising? These are all PMR symptoms. Then there's also thyroid and a variety of other hormonal things which can go wrong. Doctor anyway, full blood work with a PMR suspicion if you fit those symptoms.
35. 34 at the time of onset.
No issues at all with the shoulders. In fact, I've been doing consistent upper-body lifting (no bench/squat/deadlift so as to not tax any systems) and have made some very steady gains/muscle growth throughout this period. Other than cycling, I haven't lost any other physical capabilities and don't have any pains. The leg aching isn't painful at all, just sort of akin to post-ride soreness and/or lactic acid build-up....for example, I can be off the bike for a month, but for a few hours on a random day my quads will feel as though I just rode 60-70 miles. It doesn't persist, and there's little rhyme or reason for it (ie can't tie it to a specific food, lack of sleep, or anything like that).