Bursitis/ tear

[Carolsos]

I had a ultra scan on my shoulders on Saturday morning and then steroids shots into them. The radiologist said I have two small tears on each shoulder. I was shocked to hear this. He asked what job do I do and said I am a breakfast chef! It's repetitive stain that does this with heavy lifting. Be very careful not to over stretch or lift anything heavy as it could get worst. It will never heal, he did stress it's a tiny tear but it's never going to go away! Think really careful about how you do your work!! It freaked me out I can tell you!! So today I spoke to my boss and said I can no longer lift anything heavy or up above my waist as I have a tear in each shoulder and now she is making an appointment with occupational health! I think I have done the right thing. I did say it's part of ra bursitis. So Thursday she is getting all the revelent papers together. Thanks for listening

[springcross]

I think you did the right thing Carol, good luck with it and I hope it all goes well.

[Fruitandnutcase]

Oh goodness, not surprised it freaked you out. That sounds awful, especially as it never goes away and it’s in both shoulders. Will it be possible to do your job and not lift heavy stuff? Hope your steroid injections help you a bit. Good luck x

[Deeb1764]

talking to them was good as You can’t keep lifting kitchen weights my elbows shot to pieces from hospitality work 😘

[helenlw7]

I think you did the right thing. OH are supposed to be on your side. Many years ago when I saw them they asked me about the things I found difficult or painful to do like teaching PE, doing playground duty etc and he wrote on his report to the head teacher saying that I shouldn’t be doing them.

[Bakerannie]

I also have bursitis in both shoulders as well as a supraspinatus (one of four tendons in the rotator cuff) partial tear. The radiologist explained that the tear most likely came about because of the inflamed bursa. The tendon rides over the bursa, and normally it's a gliding motion, but when the bursa is inflamed it does not ride smoothly, and catches frequently. That is the "thunk" I hear when I tried to rotate my shoulder internally (think placing hand on hip). Unfortunately, he did say the same thing, that it will not heal, and it's liable to tear completely if the inflammation in the bursa does not settle. A complete tear, unfortunately, will require surgery. Since being diagnosed 2 years ago with Psoriatic Arthritis, my body-wide inflammation has never settled, except for early in the beginning on good doses of Prednisolone. I was a Type 2 diabetic and am now on insulin due to the steroids, so therefore Pred is now out of the picture. It keeps on giving!

[Garnacha]

One of my main symptoms before diagnosis of psoriatic arthritis was terrible pain in my right shoulder, I've had about 3 - 4 steroid injections in it, the consultant rheumatologist said last year he'd refer me for an ultrasound guided steroid injection, at the scan, the radiologist said I had a small tear & wouldn't do the injection unless an orthopaedic surgeon said it was OK.

Saw the surgeon in January who said I couldn't have another injection & needed surgery to dig out the inflammation, remove the bursa & part of my clavicle bone as all this was causing the pain, basically I had bone on bone, I was so shocked 😲 I honestly thought he'd just say no probs having an injection.

Had the op 3 weeks ago, but, I said to the surgeon my left shoulder is more painful than my right, he said its because I've been using that one more as I couldn't use the right so gave me a steroid injection in my left shoulder when I had the op 🙄

[Leics]

your post brings back memories for me, unfortunately not in a good way. I had similar issues for almost two years with a small tear which affected my whole life especially my work. The final straw was when my collarbone fractured lifting a coffee and I sat in fracture clinic and refused to go until I had had a second opinion on my shoulder. I paid a fortune to a private physio trying to sort out my shoulder but it only made things worse but at least I tried to do all I could to make it better. Anyway I ended up having to have arthroscopic decompression surgery and even the surgeon was very surprised how bad it was. My shoulder had completely fused it was totally calcified up and it took him a lot longer than he thought to remove it all. The good news is touch wood it’s been ok since. In hindsight I wouldn’t have suffered for as long as I did without digging my heels in and steroid injections never helped for very long if at all.

[Carolsos]

Wow! Thank you so much for your replies, it's good to hear what other people have been through! I am a bit worried as to what will happen at work concerning my job. But something has to be done as I cannot carry on like this! It's all come at not a good time for me. I know it's never a good time for any of this to happen! Thanks