added twist part 2!

[Brychni]

Forgot to say that I had ultrasound on the shoulder and the tendons are torn and have now been referred on to ... can't remember, for surgery presumably. Yay.

[springcross]

Good luck with that Brychni. x

[Jackie1947]

Snap. Both of mine so awaiting surgery . Having had steroids injections have helped .

[Brychni in reply to Jackie1947]

Have you injured the shoulders or was it also frozen shoulder? I 've never hurt mine so am assuming that the damage has been caused by frozen shoulder.Frozen Shoulder is in the same 'family' as Dupuytren's and Ledderhosen's. I found a really comprehensive website and read this

dupuytrens.org/frozen-shoul...

There's also lots of other info that I'm choosing to ignore regarding associated illnesses etc.

The fact that no research has been done means that this will be another thing that has me going back and forth from one specialist to another, I suppose.

[Leics]

Ouch and ouch I remember it well and not a good memory. Torn tendons and frozen shoulder is the pits. I’m sure you’ll be seeing a surgeon for perhaps an arthroscopic subacromian decompression sorry for lousy spelling lol. I had one eventually after two years of hell so if you haven’t heard anything in a few weeks chase it up my referral got lost hence the two year wait. The final straw for me was my collarbone fractured lifting a coffee as a result of the stress my shoulder was under and by that time I was taking no prisoners and refused to leave fracture clinic until someone looked into it haha. Surgery was a success and shoulder has been ok since except for RA inflammation 🙄

[Brychni in reply to Leics]

Oh God - it sounds horrendous. Did you have frozen shoulder too? And how are your pain levels since the operation?

[Leics in reply to Brychni]

To be honest my shoulder took a fair while to heal and physio was difficult but got there in the end. It was quite a few years ago now and my shoulder is good. It’s just the rest of me that’s dropped to bits. Surgeon said it was completely calcified up and it was no wonder it was so painful coz it was a mess. But yeah frozen shoulder and tendons were slightly torn and inflammed. I would definitely count it as a success probably need the right one doing now. Steroid injections into the shoulder were very short lived.

[Hidden]

I had 2 nasty falls in the February of 2018. Both shoulders had torn tendons, one much worse than the other. I had physio & the worst one got much better & the other one stayed about the same. Over that summer, the better one became much worse & the pain was extremely painful. Eventually in November of 2019 I had a shoulder replacement which was amazingly successful. Last summer I suddenly had my leg go paralysed. I was rushed into hospital & was in for over a month. I had to learn to walk again. The trouble was that I had to use a walker to move along which put pressure on my shoulders & the one that hadn’t been replaced became very bad & didn’t get any better, so I am now waiting for a shoulder replacement on that side. The pain is awful & I can’t help crying with it at times. I hope I don’t have to wait too much longer for the operation. Good luck with yours. It is not too bad at all & I was only in hospital for 2 days.

[Brychni in reply to Hidden]

I know, the pain at its worst was so awful all I could do was go to A&E. In the waiting room the pain came in sudden stabs almost like nerve pain and it made me jump a bit every time! I must have looked a right wally. the frozen shoulder has 'defrosted' but I still don't have full movement and even though it all started about a year and half ago, my recent scan showed the torn tendons. Unlike you I have never injured either shoulder so I assume the torn tendon is as a result of the frozen shoulder. I had in my left shoulder too a few years ago but it was much shorter lived so only agony for a few weeks although it crept up over a long period of time. It's all very strange. I received my appointment today, it's a video appointment initially. Of all the issues I've had, surgery on my shoulders fills me with horror and I am so suspicious of it not working.And of course it's just another thing, on top of all the others that gets in the way of living life.

Feeling so p***** off with it all.