Muscle Knot? Help please?

Hello, I am new so I am sorry if this is posted incorrectly, I need some advice over what I think is a muscle knot:

Before this issue I was really good about waking up early and working out before school, in march I developed extreme anxiety over a family matter and this anxiety lasted 24/7 for 2 months. I also developed sharp stabbing rib pain around the second month, when I felt the area of pain I noticed a tiny lump. The lump is the size of a BB pellet, it is firm, movable, smooth, and round and feels a little deep under the skin. It never hurt directly but once I calmed my anxiety the rib pain stopped but the lump seemed to stay. I have gone to 3 doctors asking what it could be and none of them would feel it or give me an answer.

I was wondering if this lump sounded like a muscle knot? Some of the things that could've caused this:

-Extreme emotional stress
-inactivity (I stopped going to the gym because of this)
-poor eating habits (also stopped eating well because of my issue)
-bad posture (new desk thats too low for my chair I've been using for a few weeks prior to this)

Does this sound like a muscle knot and should I be concerned at all? my last doc scheduled me an ultra sound and I am just terrified for the results... I appreciate any input on this situation. Thanks.

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No Thyroid, no Gallbladder but struggling to build muscle

I'm 37, male and had two operations. One 2 years ago and the other last year.
Many without a thyroid told me that I will find it difficult from now on to lose weight. Many without a gallbladder told me the same.

It so happened to me that I had to have these two organs removed. After 2 years I noticed that I am losing weight and in order to maintain it I need to it A LOT ! By a lot I mean more than what my hunger asks for. I don't go easy on fat or carbs. My pre-existing muscles start to disappear together with body fat.
Before the operations many people noticed my physique and kept asking me if I visit the gym. I don't get this now anymore.

My thyroid hormones are very optimal and the only times that I have clay-colored stools ( because of no Gallbladder) is when I don't eat green salads together with my meals.

My B12 and Vitamin D were really low but after therapy went back to normal. I keep taking some multivitamin just in case. The Gastroenterologist told me that if it was a tapeworm I would never be able to raise this B12 so we didn't check.

I did this celiac test and it was negative. I even went to a diabetologist and run some blood tests for 2 days and told me it's very optimal.

Of course I never skip meals. Anyone with same experience ? How do you maintain your muscles or body weight without thyroid or gallbladder ?

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Big thanks to the folks over at Muscletech for giving me this great opportunity. I'll write a bit about me and what I've done in the past couple of years before I actually get started with the log.

Growing up I was always heavily involved in sports and lifted a lot in high school. My diet was pretty awful though. I played hockey in college and for about half of that I lifted seriously as well, but again my diet was seriously lacking. After graduating I didn't lift for several years and became skinnyfat and had virtually no muscle mass. I really hated the way I looked and saw an ad for a gym membership so I signed up. This was in February 2016. I did a self created workout for a while and did a cut that was probably too aggressive, but that did cut out a good chunk of body fat so I was in a good position to lean bulk for a year. I ended up moving to the Fierce 5 beginner program and got my macros in check and made good progress. I bulked over a year and went from 169 in May 2016 to 188 in May 2017. I had a vacation to the Caribbean coming up so I cut down to 178 over about 2 months and resumed bulking right after vacation. In March I was at 192 and carried a little more fat than I wanted so I decided to do a brief cut again before a week in Europe. That was supposed to last a month but when I got back I decided to do another 5 pounds or so. Overall I cut for a little under 2 months and I just finished last night. My goal (which honestly I lowered a few times) was 180 and my moving average was 180.3 this morning so I'll call that a win. Now, I can resume another lean bulk.

With regards to training, after a year on the Fierce 5 beginner I started slowing down my progress which was expected. I moved to the F5 U/L split and still made some progress, but about a year ago I started stalling heavily. I tried deloading but no bueno. I moved again to the 5 day F5 split and still stalled. My auxiliary lifts and bench were increasing slowly, but with a few back injuries thrown into the mix, I have actually dropped weight on my squat and dead lift in the last year and can't seem to get above where I was. Being 100% honest, I haven't pushed myself 100% on those 2 exercises out of fear of messing up my back yet again. Recently, I moved to GST training 4 days a week and it seems to be helping me get some progress back even while I was cutting. It's slow, but I'll take it. This was during a cut so now that I can up my calories I'm hoping the progress will resume.

Here are a few of my 1 rep max that I really want to improve on:

Bench - 265
Squat - 315
Deadlift - 260 (really needs work)

I'll likely eat at maintenance for a couple of weeks (or at least attempt to this weekend when I'm out of town) and go into a slight surplus around 3000 calories after for the duration of the summer. I have a bachelor party and another trip to the Caribbean in October so I don't want to blow up too much. Being in the ballpark of 185-190 should be good. I'll also try to upload a couple of photos I'm where I'm at now so I'll have a comparison in 12 weeks.

I just started taking Clear Muscle 2 days ago and had 1 workout while I was still on the cut. I'll do another workout tonight and continue taking it through vacation and once I return Monday I'll start logging and eating normally. Let's see how this goes!

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Different muscles, different recovery time?

As per thread's subject, I was wondering if different muscles have different recovery times.

I am alternating weeks of muscle groups splits to full body workout weeks. I

In the full body workout weeks I go 3 days per week to allow for recovery, but in the rest days I am itching to go and do at least *some* workout.

So in the end, my question boils down to "are there muscles that are fine with 24 hours or recovery or less?

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Muscle Memory studies?

Are there any studies that have showed muscle memory to be real? l de trained guy's gaining muscle at a much faster rate than normal? i know lots of people anecdotally report this but just wondering if there are actually any studies?

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