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Originally Posted by ginnie
I am sorry you are in such pain. If you cannot get some resolution, seek another opinion even if you are in recovery phase. I did read about the cage you have. My first surgery was fine, the second a nightmare in recovery time. I am now three years out, and a different person. In my case it took a very long time, over a year to really heal. It was only this last year, I was able to ditch the narcotics. I have faith that you will heal. Address your worries about the pain one way or the other. If you are suffering it does make healing take longer, and it causes alot of depression and anxiety. Those impede a good recovery. My doctor did address the pain, when I didn't think I was doing very well. Hopefully he will listen to you, and do more to help during this time. Sometimes you can get muscle spasms, which hurt like the devil. Soma is a good med. to add, to remove this problem. Call your doc. it can't hurt. I so hope that this turns out as good as what I did. ginnie  |
So there is hope! Thank you for replying. I had an episode earlier that had me screaming in pain. I was lying down and tried to pick up my heat pad. I couldn't get it with my right arm, my good one, so I reached my left arm over my chest and tried to pick it up. It felt like the muscles, ligaments, nerves, ??, were all being pulled out of my left arm. Once I got to an upright position and could get my arm in a different position, it stopped. I had woke up in the middle of the night in the same pain from moving my arm wrong. I've had a MRI on my shoulder which my fr just said shows bursitis but this is actually below the shoulder. Any ideas? Will this heal on its own?