I am sooo understanding your pain right now. I pulled a pec muscle right under my left boobie and it hurts like the devil. I guess I am suffering from FB.. and I guess I don't have to tell you, it gets worse before it gets better.

I understand the jumping of the poochie, too....Ouch Ouch Ouch and yowlllll!!!

Please pass the Percoset..

I am game for Portland!

The other arm of mine that had FS.....the left one....it really hurt. It really hurt to sleep on.

The Dr. declared FS. After month and when I would no longer rip the PT's head off from pain, the PT said....hey, when I hold down on your shoulder blade you can pick up your arm. So, he declared that the left shoulder was impinged. A few months and lots of exercise later, he fixed that one.

Then the right arm decided to act up....two years later...the freak'n thing is still frozen.

I am very bad. I don't do my exercises like I should. There I said it.

So ...the moral of my story...

FG...when you get to the exercise part...don't be bad...do them. Do the boring exercises. Or two years from now your arm will still be frozen!

Do what you are told for once!

I will find out what they are going to do for this. And I will do what they say. I cannot live with this pain.

Let's get Shappy fixed too...

I saw the ortho doc today and he gave me another steroid shot in the right shoulder. Should alleviate some pain for a few days.

He and I went over the last round of MRIs, the EMG, and talked a bit about the appt I had with the Rehab/pain mgmt doc. Evidently these two guys have known each other for quite sometime and have fun with each other! I caught on real quick and got in a punch or two! I like them both and think they are both good docs.

Anyway, the ortho doc gave me an RX for PT and will chat with the Rehab doc and see me again in a month. At that time, after I've had some PT, seen the Rehab doc, we will reassess and see if I need another shoulder MRI with GAD to determine the stage of the frozen shoulder and whether or not to up the neurontin, administer the nerve block, continue with the PT or shoot me.

I start PT next week if the paperwork goes through smoothly with Tricare.

For now, I am sticking with the 300mg of neurontin. I cannot take this drug during the day. It definitely makes me drowsy. Geez, what a lightweight I am with meds! Right now, I wake up in the morning feeling like I have a hangover. I cannot continue like this. I need some pain relief.

It's a good thing I am unemployed now.

It sounds like you're doing all you can Cheryl. I'm like you with meds, only needing a small dose of most.

Are you going to be doing landscaping design in the springtime? If so, I hope they can help you heal before then.

Yes, I hope to continue with my design business. I am doing some promoting now. A couple of my friends here are helping me now that I have the other business out from under me.

I am attending the NW Flower and Garden Show in Seattle Feb 18-22 to make some contacts.

I hope you are able to get some relief before the 1 month is up. Hopefully the PT will help out quite a bit.

Just a little tip that I learned about Neurontin. When I 1st started taking it 5 years ago, I was the same way as you. It doped me up from the 1st dose and sometimes will even now. I did some research on it as I really liked it and was fully out of pain for the 1st time in years. I found that if I drink plenty of water and eat protein within an hour after taking it I don't have the loopy feeling anymore. (Well, with my morning dose. My night time dose of 600 mg is another story. LOL). I take 900 mg a day (300 am and 600 pm) and can tolerate it much better now. Every now and then I will get loopy on the morning dose but it is not that often.

I do my PT exercises faithfully. DH got a pulley

My arm was stuck so close to my body that I needed baby powder just to stop the irritation of the skin. Do you have any of that?

I hope the major drugs help you sleep. I know they have been a godsend for me.

Thanks for the tip. I thought about staying at the 300mg for a while before titrating up at all. Now maybe I will up to 600mg at night but not take any during the day. I think it is helping b/c I am not getting the shooting pains in my arm now quite as much. I know once I start the PT the pain will increase. I might have to increase something and I hate to get dependent on percocet (sorry Sally - LOL!)

I don't have anything yet. I haven't know what to do except continue with my massage therapist weekly. She has been a godsend. I will find out next week what they PT masochists want me to do and I will follow their instructions to the letter.

I had a problem with my knee about 10 years ago and avoided surgery by going to PT for 8 weeks! And then following up for another 10 weeks! I was not going to have surgery! I don't do well with anesthesia so if I can avoid surgery, I will.

So, we shall see what happens! This has just been a nightmare along with ending a partnership in the flower shop.

Wow, I feel like a neurontin addict. It seems to be the only med so far that does not bother me. I am up to 900 mg, three times per day.