Bah hum-shoulder!

That must be awfully painful more so since it stays with you all day long for a long ti,e and comes in between you and your independence. Seriously, follow the instructions and go slow with the exercise. Overdoing might be more painful.

Hiya dawn, Just to say that there are bras that you can slip over your head till you can get the movement back again. Sports Bras can be very expensive but there are bras around that have no clasps or anything on them. It was a nightmare trying to fasten mine from the back and here I could not find one that fastens at the front so I opted for the one the Lady in the Shop showed me bless her little cotton socks. I still wear them as I can´t be bothered to fiddle around with the others. Also I am now able to put my injured arm right behind my back again and touch the other shoulder blade.

Nope I haven't and I have never heard of it Why can't you poor Hot Water on it to melt the freeze But no I have never heard of this but I hope they will get it sorted for you

I have not heard of frozen shoulder, let alone have I ever experienced it. If it is frozen, why not take a hot shower to thaw it out? For any consolation, I have 2 friends who have terrible pain in their shoulders and arms. One has to have surgery sometime in February, and the other has to go through torturous exercises in the hopes a nerve on her spine that is affecting her shoulder goes back into place so she can avoid a surgery. I hope you are well very soon. I hate pain, and I hate to see others in pain.

Sorry, Dawn, you're having so much pain and hopefully the therapy works. I'd never heard of frozen shoulder. Did they say what might have caused it? Anyway, wishing you the best in your therapy. Therapy is a pain, but in the end, it's always worked for me.

Luckily and thankfully no, but a co-worker of mine had that in the past, and to be honest with you he still has it, not as bad as before, but the pain is sometimes still there depending also on the weather. He went to therapy for a few months, but like you said, he also claimed the pain was unbearable and sometimes instead of making it feel better, it just irritated the pain more. So eventually he stopped going to that particular therapist after a few months. Actually just the other day, he came by the office and started complaining again about the pain, which has been gradually increasing again within the past week, and he is currently going to another therapist, he said he wouldn't go back to the other and so far it's been going good for what I heard. I guess really all depends on the treatment the therapist give, I personally believe that some are to rough.

be very careful o f this therapy. After my cancer operation I lost movement in my arms lefting them up was hard to do DOc thought I should be getting more back so ordered home nurse to come in and strech me and theyn on to threapy for shoulder got to hurting from the streching. One day after the therapy I almost passed out from the streching they did. So I told then I wasnt coming back for what happened the lst time I was there told them this was plain torture since the home nurse streched me and was getting worse well had to do an MRI on shoulder they found that my rotor cuff was torn hmm so sent me to more therapy diffenert style and exercises which didnt work. I stopped going did my own thing and it got well. BUt if you feel GREAT pain when they strech your arm over your head and they put the pressure on make sure they havent tore your rotor cuff

Not last year, but the year before, or was it the year before that... anyway, I hadn't had to lift my left arm to put up my hair all winter and when I tried to do so, I couldn't do it. I went to the doc, and he gave me a referral, but instead I just lifted my arm up (with the other arm) propped it up on the door frame and did my hair until I could do it without lifting and propping! I've been careful to not let my shoulder get that stiff this year, even tho I did get my annual, fall hair cut!

There is a yoga stanse you can do that helps lumber up that portion of back and shoulder. Yoga is great. I bet it would help you and wouldn't be so agonizing.

My that sounds like a pleasant vist. I ahve never had a frozen shoulder. Sounds like a dislocated one to me..I mean that is what they do for a dislocation. On the brighter side..pinning your bra in the back is a plus..they do have some very nice front pinning versions too though.

Just like the physician - your elbow hurts so you must have frozen shoulder! lol! just sounds funny. I hope the exercises help. I have an injured thumb but I'm not planning on going to the dr anytime soon... it'll just have to hurt!

Hiya dawn, That was another time I could have said "Ouch" as when any of these tried to touch my Shoulder I would wince even with the slightest brush of anything. The liniment really did work and I applied heat a lot too. Hot towels and Hot Water Bottles wrapped in a Kitchen towel and placed over my Jumper or whatever and holding it there for ages. Then I tried to do movements and I would shriek it was that bad. But I did persist and that is what is most important. You can recover it and you don´t have to be stuck with it. Good luck with it hang in there dawn.

Hiya dawn, Had something like that last year and it hurt like mad. With exercise and plenty of Sloane´s Liniment at the start of it a few times a week not sleeping on your "bad" shoulder it does eventually where off. Yes I can fasten that back up to again but it does take a very long time about ten months altogether. Lesson no more carrying really heavy things around without using your other hand for support and so on. If you have to carry heavy things not too many at a time either. I can reach my left arm behind now right up my back woohoo but it really did hurt so much last year. Hope it gets better soon dawn.

Hopefuly you don't have surgery, I leep my fingers crossed for you! You should search for non-traditional ways of treatment. A friend of mine had a nasty discal hernia near the neck and she found a guy who heped her without any surgery.

Never heard of it- Frozen Shoulder... I had visions of shoulder covered with ice... :) What is that???? and how did it happen to you???

my friend has had this and so i know what you are talking about. make sure you do your exercises. did theytell you to use heat or ice? heat will help.

I don't know if it's the same thing, but I used to get the feeling that my shoulder was out of joint and had to get one of my parents to manipulate my arm until it popped back in.

I have had tennis elbow...but not frozen shoulder..since I am from Minnesota you would think I would have gotten it somewhere along the line..(joke)....hope it gets better quicker then you think!

Lesson learned, it's always better to catch these things early than late. Sorry you hurt. Take care of yourself.

My own frozen shoulder endsd in surgery and so did my sister´s. My theory is that computer is the main cause for it and for other ailmentas thant people did not have before. I hope you caught it on time. Try to use the computer a little bit less.