Originally Posted by Eric3237

Make sure you're not flaring your elbows out when you bench. If you continue to get pain no matter what you do, then I'd say it's not worth it. Maybe a slight incline or decline might help. If DB presses are more comfortable then you could always do that.

Continuing to do something that causes pain is a good way to cause a lifelong chronic injury. That is an injury that many times is more stubborn and recurrent then an acute one that you sustain and then allow to heal and rehabilitate.