Hi Elle,
Perhaps you are using 2 different accounts to login to backend and frontend, if this is the case and you edited the item from the backend without closing the editing form either by saving or cancelling the edit, you will find this message.
To fix it, login to the backend, find the item, click to open the edit form and close, then you will be able to edit from the backend.
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