Tweaked my shoulder last week picking something up - not a whole lot of pain except when i reach my arm behind my back then the top hurts a little (right around the top part). I leave for vacation for 2 weeks tomorrow and I can't get into a doc beforehand but I'm worried if I wait too long something worse will progress.
I have full range of motion *again except reaching behind my back" and don't get any pain overhead movements. Anyone experience something similar? Hoping it's not a torn rotator cuff or something requiring surgery. I can't afford to miss work for the recovery.
I'll see a doc when I get back if it persists, but just curious if anyone here has something similar.
If needed, get yourself a bottle of Aleve and don't be hesitant on taking 2 of those blue pills every 12 hours.
See. A. Doctor.
Randomly trying things is obviously not working.
I could barely raise my arm above my head for a month and my doctor gave me some rotator cuff exercises, that's it. Said he only operates on shoulders when it's extreme, as shoulder surgery is lousy.
Rotator cuff, impingement, labrum tear,....there's a lot going on with the shoulder.
My problem went away after time.
I recently got sick and tired of dealing with it so I had surgery to clean up the joint and remove bone spurs.
Three months out it turns out that my issue is the biceps tendon. It gets caught riding over the front of the shoulder and gets irritated by any overhead movements.
The doctor now talks about cutting the tendon and re-inserting it lower on the bone. I'm pissed.
I can deal with the torn labrum in my hip and the torn medial meniscus in both knees, but the shoulder is a pain in my ass.
Damn. Shoulder injuries blow.