What the F is this shoulder pain? (1 Viewer)

[Dinsy Ejotuz]

Had the same thing and anti-inflammatory pills worked. Definitely sleep related.

 

[Cunk]

I'm going through a similar thing right now. For 75% of any shoulder movements no pain, but reaching or moving a certain way will cause a tremendous sharp pain. It's been this way for a few months now. The pain goes through the top of the shoulder through the right through the arm. Researching online I think it's a shoulder impingement. I've been doing exercises for it but they are really painful. I'm not sure if it was caused by swimming or an old injury I got years ago. It really causes discomfort during sleep. Hopefully I can figure this out because it really sucks.

 

[STEADYMOBBIN 22]

I'm going through a similar thing right now. For 75% of any shoulder movements no pain, but reaching or moving a certain way will cause a tremendous sharp pain. It's been this way for a few months now. The pain goes through the top of the shoulder through the right through the arm. Researching online I think it's a shoulder impingement. I've been doing exercises for it but they are really painful. I'm not sure if it was caused by swimming or an old injury I got years ago. It really causes discomfort during sleep. Hopefully I can figure this out because it really sucks.

1)If you normally sleep on that side, try not to. 2)Stop jerking off so frequently***

3)Rest it as much as you can. Use your opposite side to do everything; open doors, steer when you drive, pump gas, everything.

*** I'm positive #2 was the main culprit in my case. I did all 3 and I just realized yesterday that the sharp pains aren't there anymore. I had been having them for 6+ mos.

ETA- just to prevent confusion , the sharp pains never happened while molesting the mongoose, but pouring Suger or a bowl of cereal would cause brief but enormous, sharp pain.

 

[flapgreen]

I'm going through a similar thing right now. For 75% of any shoulder movements no pain, but reaching or moving a certain way will cause a tremendous sharp pain. It's been this way for a few months now. The pain goes through the top of the shoulder through the right through the arm. Researching online I think it's a shoulder impingement. I've been doing exercises for it but they are really painful. I'm not sure if it was caused by swimming or an old injury I got years ago. It really causes discomfort during sleep. Hopefully I can figure this out because it really sucks.

I wouldn't start doing exercises and self diagnosing. You could make it worse, especially doing exercises that cause pain. I rarely give anyone an exercise that creates more pain, especially in a shoulder.

 

[jamny]

I'm going through a similar thing right now. For 75% of any shoulder movements no pain, but reaching or moving a certain way will cause a tremendous sharp pain. It's been this way for a few months now. The pain goes through the top of the shoulder through the right through the arm. Researching online I think it's a shoulder impingement. I've been doing exercises for it but they are really painful. I'm not sure if it was caused by swimming or an old injury I got years ago. It really causes discomfort during sleep. Hopefully I can figure this out because it really sucks.

I wouldn't start doing exercises and self diagnosing. You could make it worse, especially doing exercises that cause pain. I rarely give anyone an exercise that creates more pain, especially in a shoulder.

Yeah. I was still trying to work out but was afraid of making it worse. Once you know it's not a tear or similar damage, then maybe try to work it out with stretching and exercise. I'm psyched that my doctor told me I need to push it a little, not baby it.

 

[RC94]

I'm going through a similar thing right now. For 75% of any shoulder movements no pain, but reaching or moving a certain way will cause a tremendous sharp pain. It's been this way for a few months now. The pain goes through the top of the shoulder through the right through the arm. Researching online I think it's a shoulder impingement. I've been doing exercises for it but they are really painful. I'm not sure if it was caused by swimming or an old injury I got years ago. It really causes discomfort during sleep. Hopefully I can figure this out because it really sucks.

I wouldn't start doing exercises and self diagnosing. You could make it worse, especially doing exercises that cause pain. I rarely give anyone an exercise that creates more pain, especially in a shoulder.

Go to the doctor

 

[Binky The Doormat]

I'm going through a similar thing right now. For 75% of any shoulder movements no pain, but reaching or moving a certain way will cause a tremendous sharp pain. It's been this way for a few months now. The pain goes through the top of the shoulder through the right through the arm. Researching online I think it's a shoulder impingement. I've been doing exercises for it but they are really painful. I'm not sure if it was caused by swimming or an old injury I got years ago. It really causes discomfort during sleep. Hopefully I can figure this out because it really sucks.

I wouldn't start doing exercises and self diagnosing. You could make it worse, especially doing exercises that cause pain. I rarely give anyone an exercise that creates more pain, especially in a shoulder.

Flap - in your experience what has helped most for tennis elbow? Got it bad. I bought a red flexstick and doing that but hurting pret-tttay good. Also have been doing the bending down of my hand and holding it for a couple minutes at a time (has seemed to bring some temporary relief ...knocks about half the pain intensity down for an hour or so sometimes).

Do you use the Graston Technique and those butter knife lookin' tools?

 

[Scarpaggio]

Just had surgery on my shoulder today that I had similar problems with. Both of my shoulders have the pain actually and I was sent to pt before the they sent me back to the dr. My left arm responded to pt but nothing from my right and I had lost more than 50% of my range of motion.

MRI showed bone spurs and a particularly torn labrum. The dr said an mri won't always show the problems in the shoulder. During surgery he found some inflammation and took care of the bone spurs and labrum.

I've been on anti inflammatory drugs since December with no relief at all. I've felt ok for mist of the day because of the meds. not looking forward to trYing to sleep.

 

[shuke]

Flapgreen, does therapy actually help rotator cuff issues?

 

[heckmanm]

I'm going through a similar thing right now. For 75% of any shoulder movements no pain, but reaching or moving a certain way will cause a tremendous sharp pain. It's been this way for a few months now. The pain goes through the top of the shoulder through the right through the arm. Researching online I think it's a shoulder impingement. I've been doing exercises for it but they are really painful. I'm not sure if it was caused by swimming or an old injury I got years ago. It really causes discomfort during sleep. Hopefully I can figure this out because it really sucks.

I wouldn't start doing exercises and self diagnosing. You could make it worse, especially doing exercises that cause pain. I rarely give anyone an exercise that creates more pain, especially in a shoulder.

Flap - in your experience what has helped most for tennis elbow? Got it bad. I bought a red flexstick and doing that but hurting pret-tttay good. Also have been doing the bending down of my hand and holding it for a couple minutes at a time (has seemed to bring some temporary relief ...knocks about half the pain intensity down for an hour or so sometimes).

Do you use the Graston Technique and those butter knife lookin' tools?

I've had those damn things used on me for tennis elbow AND on my Achilles tendon. Jesus I hate them. Other folks in the PT room rehabbing from ACL surgery were feeling sorry for me. (Not saying they don't work but it's really painful, especially the second session of the week when I was still bruised from the first round.)

 

[moleculo]

last year I struggled with some pretty bad pain in my right shoulder. The pain was pretty bad - the part I dreaded the most about going to the gym was picking my gym bag up off of the passenger seat....that kind of lifting killed.

Went to the DR, had the MRI, and he found swelling in the bursa, apparently caused by by sleeping on it. He gave me some anti-inflammatories, some rotator-cuff exercises, and instruction to not sleep on my arm any more...I decided that I was sleeping on my arm because my pillow sucks, so I bought a better pillow.

It took about 3 or 4 months but I am virtually pain free now. When I do overhead presses in the gym, I can still feel a little tweak, but nothing like I was feeling last year. And, I've regained all of my strength and am back to seeing gains with my lifting again.

 

[STEADYMOBBIN 22]

last year I struggled with some pretty bad pain in my right shoulder. The pain was pretty bad - the part I dreaded the most about going to the gym was picking my gym bag up off of the passenger seat....that kind of lifting killed.

Went to the DR, had the MRI, and he found swelling in the bursa, apparently caused by by sleeping on it. He gave me some anti-inflammatories, some rotator-cuff exercises, and instruction to not sleep on my arm any more...I decided that I was sleeping on my arm because my pillow sucks, so I bought a better pillow.

It took about 3 or 4 months but I am virtually pain free now. When I do overhead presses in the gym, I can still feel a little tweak, but nothing like I was feeling last year. And, I've regained all of my strength and am back to seeing gains with my lifting again.

This. Same pain, same story, same end result .

I think my shoulder is about 95% healed.

 

[jamny]

I had a sore shoulder for a while. I figured out it was because of the way I was sleeping. I had gotten into the habit of sleeping with my arms over my head. I fixed it by simply laying flat on my back with arms at my sides when I fell asleep. I think it took a month or two for it to completely heal.

I think Ive got this going on right now. I self-diagnosed it as bursitis caused by the way I was sleeping. Problem is I cant sleep flat on my back.

I had the same sort of thing due to how I was sleeping. When I was sleeping on my stomach I'd have my arms over my head, more or less like I was using them as a pillow. Realized the way I was lying, my right torso was propped up by my arm, and my shoulder had to support the weight all night. Took me a long time to realize what it was. When on my stomach now I just extend my arm to the side or down my body so my torso is lying flat. It went away immediately and hasn't come back.

ETA: Had an MRI when it was at its worst, no damage found.

Several years ago I forced myself to stop sleeping on my stomach because it was causing lower back pain. Now Ive got shoulder pain from sleeping on my side. Who knew sleeping was so strenuous? Getting old is the suck.

I've been going through this and thinking it's because of how I sleep. My mattress isn't that old but maybe it's wearing down?

I usually sleep on my left side and fortunately I've been able to sleep on my back. At least fall asleep but I'm sure I wind up on my left side again during the night. My pain can best be described by saying that you're driving using hand signals and are making a right turn. Now try to move you arm back. That's where the pain is. I can't turn my alarm off anymore with my left arm (clock is on my left)

I don't need a referral on my insurance. Should I still go to my PCP or just find a specialist? What kind of doc handles shoulder pain?

Finally went to the doctor for this. Got a few xrays and thankfully it doesn't look like any damage. He's calling it a frozen shoulder. I actually thought that after doing some research online. Cortizone shot and some physical therapy for a month. Hopefully it's better. If not, getting an mri and go from there.

After 3 days, it felt 100x better. I never even went to any physical therapy and have now stopped the anti-inflammatories. Doing a bunch of exercises and it feels completely healed. I was worried that I would do more damage to it and it would put me out of work, in the busiest time of the year, but once he told me to stop babying it, I felt fine to push it. First real physical sign for me that I'm getting older and need to do some more stretching exercises.

 

[jon_mx]

Flapgreen, does therapy actually help rotator cuff issues?

I had an issue with my shoulder for 18 months. Went to a chiropractor for a few sessions and it fixed it.

 

[Steve Tasker]

Just had surgery on my shoulder today that I had similar problems with. Both of my shoulders have the pain actually and I was sent to pt before the they sent me back to the dr. My left arm responded to pt but nothing from my right and I had lost more than 50% of my range of motion.

MRI showed bone spurs and a particularly torn labrum. The dr said an mri won't always show the problems in the shoulder. During surgery he found some inflammation and took care of the bone spurs and labrum.

I've been on anti inflammatory drugs since December with no relief at all. I've felt ok for mist of the day because of the meds. not looking forward to trYing to sleep.

Scope or open surgery? I've done both...good luck. You'll be out of the immobilizer soon enough.

 

[Steve Tasker]

Since this is the general shoulder thread, I just went to my ortho this morning.

I have a rich history of shoulder instability which stems from, as they've put it, abnormally small (and thus weak) labrums. Arthroscopic surgery in May 2006 to repair the labrum, which didn't really work as I was back to dislocating it a few months later. Had the full open surgery in January 2008 where they repaired the labrum, "anchored" it (whatever that means) and somehow wrapped a muscle around the joint or somesuch to "sock it into place". Recovery was a nightmare but I returned to almost full strength for years.

Last Thursday night I suffered a fluke injury on the soccer field where I landed on my arm wrong and dislocated the shoulder fully for the first time in years. A few hours in the ER to get it put back in, and I was told to go see my specialist.

Got as good news as I could've hoped, I suppose. He says the range of motion is pretty good and it's good that I am not in pain. Based on my description of the injury, he said it sounds like a fluke which generally would not result in permanent damage, but he couldn't be sure given my prior history. X-rays look good, shoulder is centered in the socket, no breaks or anything noted. 6 weeks of PT and then we re-evaluate...if everything looks and feels okay, I will be discharged. If it's still a problem, we move to MRI and possibly a third surgery.