Shoulder Surgery Needed?

[top_driver]

Hi, all. I have been having a mad shoulder problem this last few years. I even did nothing with them the last 6 months but i struggle to lift my arm sideways even to pick up a tea bag. The pain is like a tooth ache when you need root canal along with a burning sensation at like biting points. I am in good shape so i should not be having this problem. Should i be requesting an mri for possible surgery

[Mamyalynne]

Wken did you stop doing weight training?

You may need some investigation into this and possibly physio.

[top_driver]

I was mostly doing martial arts never did much in the way of weight training till more recent times it would always have been pushups and situps. and even then i never really pushed myself hard at it and i was on and off with it too when it came to any weights i am more in to natural weight gain than induced.

[jno]

several years? Good grief. Has your GP suggested anything? You'd need a diagnosis before thinking about a cure.

[top_driver]

The absolute basic of movements. I can't even lean forward with my elbows resting on my thighs without the feel my shoulder is about to dislocate. And i am always doing gentle movements and stretches. Well trying.

[top_driver]

I have not said too much to the gp because most my time was taken by the knee i had 2 reconstructions on. I did mention it with less detail was sent for physio but this has done nothing to help

[jno]

first things first, I suppose, but I'd be seeing him/her about it. If you can suffer from two things at once, they can treat two things at once.

[top_driver]

But i stopped doing any weight training or anything since october. Although that was more because of having golfers elbow i didn't want an extra problem to be dealing with haha

[top_driver]

Since the covid i don't really get real appointments. I only get phone consultations so that is a bit of a problem. I probably should request an mri though. That will determine what the issue is

[puzzled54]

Google frozen shoulder

[davebro]

I had shoulder pain& severely restricted movement last year during lockdown. GP (by telephone) said it wasn't a "frozen shoulder" and referred me for physio advice. I did some exercises they gave me but got no improvement.

Eventually I went private (£400) for ultrasound & steroid injections. It WAS a frozen shoulder. The injections freed it up and I now have full movement & only slight occasional pain. £400 well spent!

GP said they no longer refer patients for steroid injections on the NHS. Don't know if that's true.

[davebro]

I went here : https://jointcareclinics.co.uk/corticosteroid-injections-birmingham/

[Sqad]

/////Should i be requesting an mri for possible surgery/////

No.

You give a good description of a Frozen Shoulder and you need injection of a steroid around the joint.

How you get this and when is another question.
In the meantime take painkillers e.g Ibuprofen.

[barry1010]

The NHS still provides steroid injections for frozen shoulder where appropriate. I don't know why you were told differently, davebro

[bednobs]

you can't just "request an MRi" (well you can but you'll probably get short shrift!)
you need to start at the beginning with pain killers and physio.

[top_driver]

I have in total had this shoulder problem for around 13 years. Just that it has been getting worse over time. I don't know about the uk system but over here in ireland. They told me i had a bruised knee after i snapped it. Only when it never got better did they give me an mri turned out i needed a knee reconstruction so my trust on them a little low

[davebro]

//The NHS still provides steroid injections for frozen shoulder where appropriate. I don't know why you were told differently, davebro//

As I said I don't if it's true but that's what they told me. Even without an examination she said it wasn't a frozen shoulder - some kind on telepathy I guess! I think the suggestion was that they skip the injections & go direct to manipulation under anaesthetic but as we were in the throes of "saving the NHS" I opted for the private route.

[top_driver]

NHS doesn't apply to me. I live in ireland so it would be the HSE. I got my doc appointment today. Finally he wants me to get injections and an MRI after i described it all to him. So it might finally get sorted. Hopefully