Having Rotator cuff repair tomorrow, and Moh's surgery next week.

[PhysAssist]

Hi,

Well, I made through the past week without aspirin and my anti-inflammatories, which I sorely missed, so that tomorrow they can fix my rotator cuff.

Then next week, while I'm already out on leave, the basal cell cancer on my nose gets its turn.

Hopefully, things go well, so please wish me luck if you please.

Best,

PA

[mhos61]

Hi PA: Wishing you the best of luck with your upcoming surgeries. Hope your recovery time is short and as painless as possible on both counts. X

[Poppy6060]

Hi hope it all goes well for you x

[Wewo01]

Hi PhysAssist,

I wish you a quick recovery and very little discomfort! Sending you healing thoughts and energy!

[Ovidess]

Fingers crossed and wishes sent for healing!

[hunter5582]

Speedy recoveries!!

[Aldebaran25]

good luck and get well soon !

[Oscarsboy]

Hope all goes well for you with your upcoming surgeries. Can you advise please what anti inflammatory you use, as I also have similar shoulder issues and due to aspirin and being on HU am avoiding ibuprofen. However pain is so hard to manage and just wondered how you have controlled it. Many thanks. All the best for recovery.

[saltmarsh]

Wishing you much luck on the surgery. Shoulder recovery is right up there with knee replacement which I had last year. Had to rely on HU to drive my platelets down but it all worked out. I'm confident things will go well for you.

[Meatloaf9]

Best to you with your surgeries. I am sure they will both go well. Thanks for all your posts and medical advice, come back soon.

[falconered53]

Blessings on you for you surgeries. May they be safe, painless, straightforward and effective. Please let us know how it goes.

[Island-Lady]

wishing you the very best with your surgeries. Mohs surgery is wonderful and rotator cuff surgery has done wonders for some of my friends.

sending my very best wishes💐

[EPguy]

Wishing you a great 3/3 on all the procedures.

[PhysAssist in reply to EPguy]

Hi all,

Thank you all for the kind wishes.

I just got back to work yesterday, and since I had 1750-ish emails in my inbox, it took me a minute to see this.

As far as results go, the Shoulder surgery was pretty much a bust, as despite the MRI having shown no evidence of tendon degeneration/atrophy ["...no evidence of fatty necrosis is present...", when the surgeon got into the joint and tried to reconnect the tendons, they were all too degenerated to fix.

He showed us video of the procedure stating: "they just shredded to pieces when I tried to reattach them..." As a result, the only thing he was able to do was to remove some of the arthritic bone spurs that were the likely cause of their having ruptured in the first place.

This meant that my shoulder was actually worse post-op than prior, but despite that, a slow gentle course of rehab and a steroid injection into the acromial-clavicular [AC] joint has gradually returned me to at least my pre-op level of function, or maybe a just little better.

The Mohs surgery was much more successful, requiring only 2 rounds of excision, and a minor flap rotation graft for closure- it left me with just a slightly deeper crease in the inner corner between my left eye and nasal border. I left there very impressed with their skillset and very much relieved to be [skin] cancer-free.

Thank you all again for your kind wishes and support- you are all very much appreciated!

Best regards,

PA

[EPguy in reply to PhysAssist]

1/2 is something. Sorry the shoulder didn't work out. Surprise the MRI totally missed it.

I've had something catching in my shoulder since the fateful vaccine, feels like a bone spur on tendon.

Wishing you the best.

[PhysAssist in reply to EPguy]

Hi ERguy,

Thanks!

BTW, I would still recommend getting an MRI, if you have pain or weakness with some range of motion, but proactive rehab exercises were what helped me both before and after the [failed] surgery:

orthoinfo.aaos.org/en/recov...

healthline.com/health/rotat...

medicalnewstoday.com/articl...

My initial tear was spontaneous and partial.

One day, I just woke up with pain in some arcs of shoulder movement- this was in the 2010's and was my left [dominant] shoulder. I did the rehab exercises listed above, and by the time I had an MRI and saw the ortho, he said my functional status was too good to entertain surgery.

The multiple tears on my right shoulder happened 2 falls from 8/22 and 11/22 which happened while logging out some of our dead ash trees [at home, not work], each of which caused profound ecchymosis extending down my arm [like bruising, but migratory and not really painful], and focal shoulder pain, which improved with the exercises.

Then on 2/14/23 I woke up with a new area of ecchymosis leading to my thrombosis scare [shared here shortly afterward] and which turned out to be another spontaneous tear- this time of my biceps longus tendon- which I'm told was because of the fraying caused by rubbing on the bone spurs in my shoulder.

This prompted the MRI, that led me to my current position.

Best always,

PA

[EPguy in reply to PhysAssist]

Good to know the exercises can help. It seems your connecting parts are delicate.

I was getting regular phys therapy which was useful, but upon being largely housebound I had to stop.

I had shoulder MRI last Feb, (and brain/neck) Nothing found in the shoulder. I will discuss getting another, thanks for the suggestion. The trouble is near where the fateful vaccine was injected, so likely a connection. I still have full strength so far, the phys therapy guy was surprised that a skinny old guy had a stronger grip that he did.

Lately this issue, and even my MPN, are background troubles vs my permanent IFN/vaccine immune complications.

[hunter5582]

Wishing you success and a speedy recovery. All the best my friend.

[PhysAssist in reply to hunter5582]

Hi Hunter5582,

Thanks I do appreciate the kind thoughts!

Best always,

PA