No shoulder problems here and its more then 3 months post op!!

Hi Gloria! Glad that we're starting to re-gather some of the 'old gang'! I am haviing awful shoulder/arm problems oon my right side, and using the computer as much as I do at work isn't helping! I had a torn rotator cuff, rt shoulder, after my MVA in '99 that started this whole mess that I'm in w/ my spine. I had gotten a steroid shot, and then I had done some PT, and brought the arm basically back to normal - my ROM had been AWFUL beforehand. (no pun intended!) Anyhow, that was iin '99, and now my rt shoulder is acting up again - I also have carpal tunnel in right hand. I just don't know where I'm going with this, but I just thought I'd throw my hat into the ring, so to speak!

Linda, good to see you here, too - it's weird missing folks that you never met! Have I got a load of news to tell you all - I will probably post a 'what's been goin' on thread from home sometime (and hurt my arm some more ) Back to the salt mines - TTYL!!

Hugs, Jacquie

Hi Jacquie, it is ever so nice to see all the names that are popping up on this BT2 forum. I feel so at HOME here and now more and more folks are finding their way here!
My pain is NOT any better so I will be popping around some myself. I just don't post much on the CP forum, due to my pain being so small compared to MANY here on this forum. Of course pain is pain so we all need each other for support and sometimes just (((((((BIG OLE HUGS)))))))))) Gaye

Hi Jacquie and Slogo,

Yes, it is weird to miss people you have not met...but know the names...some not even a real name...an acronym or a nickname..or whatever we have chosen for ourselves...It is nice to see us all finding our way back! ....

No rotator cuff damage here but after surgery I had tennis elbow in both elbows. I contribute this to the strapping down. They were supposed to do it while I was still awake but knocked me out so fast I had no idea what happened. After six to eight months the pain in my arms finally subsided.
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I'm out of the habit of checking this site since the crash. I participated in this discussion before.

Two months after decompression (without fusion) of C4-5, 5-6, 6-7 on the left only, I began to have weakness and spasm in my neck and shouiders. Then I began to have pain around my right collarbone, followed by searing pain in my right shoulder, atrophy of that area, and nerve pain in my right arm.

It got so bad that eventually I could not lift my arm. An MRI showed extensive shoulder damage. Therapy for my shoulder didn't help and caused severe nerve pain throughout my upper body. My shoulder surgeon declined to do surgery, saying this could not all be coming from my shoulder.

During this past year, my entire upper body atrophied. My skin sways around my withered arms; I'm unable to do any arm exercise. I have asked one doctor after another what caused this atrophy, and have never had an answer.

It's been a year since the rotator cuff tear and shoulder damage were diganosed. I've been to something like 6 or 7 doctors, mostly surgeons.

Some say the problem is my spine, that my spine shifted after surgery, putting pressure on C6-7 on the right; and what I have now is cervical radiculopathy. Some say the problem is entirely in my shoulder.

The doctor who strikes me as being the most honest, a rehab doctor, says there's no way to say for sure what precipitated the shoulder damage, but he suspects the problem is in both my spine AND my shoulder.

NO doctor has been willing to do surgery since there's no consensus on what the problem is, so I've been left like this: in constant pain, becoming more and more disabled.

Does anyone have any light to shed on any of this?

Not long after my surgery I developed tennis elbow in both arms. I am convinced this was from the surgery strapping they use to keep you still. I was supposed to have it done before I was under but no way...I went fast.