Steroid Shot for Frozen Shoulder....

[calypsogirl]

I was diagn. with this yesterday, looking on the web very painful. THe shot seems to be helping. MRI scheduled. Has anyone dealt with this?

[ICNDonna]

Yes, I've had a frozen shoulder. I couldn't move it at all without intense pain. I got one steroid shot and it allowed me to begin moving it so I could work with my physical therapy to regain full use of it. I don't know how I could have done it without the shot.

Donna

[ABliske]

i HAd horrible pains in my shoulders when I was a teen. My mom said it was burcitis (sp?). I couldn't do anything for it because my mom didn't want me to get a chortizone (sp?) shot. It was soo bad I couldn't lift up my arms at times. I hope yours feels better soon. Does it have anything to do with the weather? What causes frozen shoulder?

[ICNDonna]

My orthopedist explained why he thought my shoulder froze. I actually strained the muscle lifting a gate when the neighbor's cows got out. My shoulder was sore so I babied it and didn't move it because it hurt, then the soreness kept increasing because it wasn't being moved much. The it finally got to the point where moving it even slightly was horribly painful.

The steroid shot helped ease the pain so I could get it moving again; that coupled with a TENS unit allowed it to heal. I occasionally get slightly sore there, but I know now to keep it moving! I absolutely don't want to go through that again.

Donna

[pingpong]

Frozen shoulders seem to be a trend in my family. I remember when I was about 4 my mother had what they called "bursitis" and she had cortisone shots for it. I don't know how well the shots worked, but I do remember we had to have a housekeeper every day for quite a while since Mom was so disabled. My sister had one about 10 years ago and her right shoulder got so bad that she had to have arthroscopic surgery to remove adhesions. And she had the same surgery on her left shoulder just before Thanksgiving. When I had it, I got it in both shoulders, which made even the simplest things, like sleeping, horribly painful. I got cortisone shots in both shoulders, but they didn't help. After several weeks of physical therapy they were getting worse, so my rheumatologist suggested warm-water PT. That's what finally got me on the road to recovery, although I had to go to the pool about 4 times a week for several months before I started feeling less pain and more mobility. From start to finish it was about 10 months. :rant: None of us had any type of injury that caused the condition. But I have lupus and my sister has fibromyalgia, which may be why we ended up with this problem. I'm not sure about Mom - this was about 50 years ago, so my sense of time for this event isn't very reliable. And Mom's been gone for 4 years, so I can't get more info from her.

[crkshnks79]

I get the shots in both my shoulders every couple months from bursitis . Im constantly lifting my arms and straining my shoulder muscles to keep my arms at a certain point ( Im a hairdresser , ie holding up blowdryers kills me sometimes ) They really help w the pain , usually the pain comes once I try to lift my arms past a certain point . Once I get the shot it takes a week or 2 to really kick in but then aaaahhhh relief lol . I hope you start to feel better soon !!!!

[curlycue]

I had it done last year my right shoulder was killing me. I went to a ortho that stated I had roter cuff tear? what I said how. I kind of did not buy the roter cuff tear idea. I was hurting all over all the tender point places. I went to a rhumi and he told me I had fibro,I started on Lyrica and I have been good ever since. Thanks to God and me having a feeling that I did not want this ortho to do surgery.Oh the shot did work.

[mary124]

I have a torn rotator cuff (right shoulder) was dx with it about 7 years ago, have had therapy many times, the last time the terapist said that surgery wa my next step. (so I have been baby my shoulder-which isn't easy to do considering it is my right shoulder)-- this past FEburary it started to act up so I went back to my Ortho. doctor -after all of these years, really didn't see him except in the hall way; saw his nurse pract. which I didn't mind but everytime she had to go in/out to ask question/confirm with him; they didn't do anything- xrays steroid injections told me therapy (told them it didn't work the last 3 times so no; they said tens unit - I said ok but then I found out BCBS doesn't pay for it);and oh, get this they said go see your "gate keeper" -- you all know what a "gate keeper is? (family doctor).-- (I guess since I am a high risk patient a lot of doctors don't like to deal with me-- as I have lost a few good doctors this way); then she walked out the door and I had to pay my co-payment. Called my Cardio nurse as she told me to call her afterwards and she said here is another doctor go see him, I did, should of went to him in the first place! This other doctor I told both him and is PA what the first one said -they took x-rays gave my a steroid injection and did some movement and confirm it was a rotator cuff problem and said if this doesn't help that when I come back next month if I still hurt they will do CT to see where we are at with it. This was last week, the injection helped a little but I still have a lot of pain but we will wait and see on it. I asked this doctor if he knew what a gate keeper was? and he couldn't believe that this is what they said to me. When he mentioned possible surgery I said you aren't going to chase me away due to me being high risk? he said no, why should I? I know your Cardio doctor.

[ICNDonna]

If you have a torn rotator cuff, it usually needs to be surgically dealt with.

Donna

[mary124]

Yes I know, but they are trying to put it off due to my heart valve and being on coumadin. (they really don't want to keep taking me off/and putting me back on it all the time).One of the nurses (jokingly said couldn't they do the hydro and the other surgery on the same day?? since they use the same hospitals? I told them that all my doctors need to talk...

[curlycue]

funny how life works. Good Luck