Well. that would probably be my luck! I realize it is only a temporary measure, but at this time I am willing to give it a try. I do not want another surgery for a very long time if at all. But I am losing strength in my right hand very badly. The strangest thing is that right before I started experiencing the horrid pain in my left shoulder last spring, I developed a severe case of tendonitis in my right wrist. I had the maximum number of injections allowed and it finally cleared up. When the pain started on my right shoulder after my surgery, the tendonitis flared up again. The neuro doc said it was all probably related. The pain doc mentioned the lack of strength in my right hand and asked if the neuro doc had talked about surgery. **sigh** I'm gonna go ahead with the nerve block and hope and pray it will give me some relief.