Same thing happened to me a few months back when azircon showed up on a few of my lower effort posts. I was frustrated at first, but now it very well may have been the best thing possible. It pushed me to try different types of content and get in a better habit of posting.
Plus I have stopped self voting and believe it or not my rewards have increased.
I think you should try to find a way to turn all of this into something positive. You wouldn’t be one of the top rewarded accounts for so long if people didn’t enjoy what you have to say. I’ve read many of your posts and you have a lot of wisdom and you’re funny.
Don’t let this get you done, let it make you even better than you already are.
Good luck with that shoulder/back pain. I used to have that issue, but luckily no more. A few recommendations for that:
All of those should help to improve your pain, unless you have something majorly wrong, but hopefully something like surgery won’t be necessary.
RE: Downvotes Oh Noes!