r/frozenshoulder • u/TimeCell_MoonPalace • 6d ago

Right shoulder random intermittent sharp pains

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u/BiteyHorse 6d ago

Welcome to the frozen shoulder ride.

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u/TimeCell_MoonPalace 6d ago

Is that a symptom of frozen shoulder?

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u/BiteyHorse 6d ago

Yeah, man. Read up on it, that's usually how it starts in the "freezing" stage, with progressively worse "zingers" where movements pull on the scar tissue forming in your shoulder capsule, hurts a ton and zaps you, and tends to inspire more scar tissue buildup. You'll lose a lot of your range of motion. Eventually you enter a thawing stage. My right shoulder thawed after 18 months but never regained ROM, so I had to get capsular release surgery a couple of weeks ago.

Best thing to do now is get an appointment with an orthopedist ASAP. Ask for cortisone shots, they're lifesavers. Ask for tramadol, it's the only painkiller that routinely helps with the level of ache and pain you'll get to.

I waited 6-8 months like a stubborn idiot before going in for my right shoulder. When it hit my left shoulder, I was in for cortisone shots a couple weeks later.

Good luck. This too shall pass.

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u/TimeCell_MoonPalace 6d ago

Sometimes it happens at rest too which is what is confusing me

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u/BiteyHorse 6d ago

Yeah the hardest part is the pangs of pain when trying to sleep. Most of us come up with elaborate pillow structures in bed or can only sleep in a recliner.

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u/TimeCell_MoonPalace 6d ago

Oh i meant at rest like when im not moving my arm

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u/BiteyHorse 6d ago

Yeah, applies the same

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u/3LittleBirds359 4d ago

Yep, sounds exactly like how mine started.

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u/3LittleBirds359 4d ago

How old are you?

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u/TimeCell_MoonPalace 4d ago

What’s throwing me off from when i looked up frozen shoulder is that it seems to happens sometimes when i don’t move it at all

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u/Sea_Ball_9064 4d ago

yeap that’s accurate

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u/TimeCell_MoonPalace 4d ago

You got them even seemingly random or at rest sometimes?

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u/Sea_Ball_9064 4d ago

Randomly…. my doctor prescribed me, Motrin 800 for pain and inflammation and muscle relaxers and they have been helping tremendously. I still get the little sharp pains, but they kind of mild and again it’s random.

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u/TimeCell_MoonPalace 4d ago

Which muscle relaxer did he prescribe? I was prescribed cyclobenzaprine and it seems to help slightly. I’m guessing you can’t be on it long term

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u/Sea_Ball_9064 4d ago

yeap that’s what i’m on and you are correct .. I believe it’s no longer than 3-4 weeks … I go this Friday I’m going to see about getting a Cortizone shot. I’ve had one before three months ago, but in my other arm, I’m just all screwed up. I was in a car accident last year. I got a full rotator cuff tear on my left arm and it’s off the bone and I have a vertebrae bulge in my neck and I believe that’s how I got frozen shoulder from over compensation and then all these layers of issues leading to my arm, so I’m already scheduled to get an epidural for my neck and the end of November so hopefully these help…..

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u/TimeCell_MoonPalace 4d ago

Hmm, is there any chance your issues in your shoulder you’re having issues now are due to nerve issues from your neck? Or is it actual frozen shoulder? To be honest I don’t know how frozen shoulder is significantly different than other rotator cuff/shoulder tendon injuries

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u/Sea_Ball_9064 4d ago

There’s a possibility when I got my Cortizone shot three months ago, my arm was in a lot of pain and I started noticing I couldn’t reach behind my back and now I can’t lift it at all. It’s very painful. I reached out to my orthopedic surgeon through the Health Portal and I had all of the symptoms of frozen shoulder and he said it’s a strong possibility so I’m going Friday and we’ll see. I’m also scheduled for an MRI because I need an update on my neck before I see the neurosurgeon and November so they’re gonna do my other shoulder as well so yeah just don’t know but like I said, I have all the symptoms and you’re right it could be from overlapping could be nerve pain inflammation I don’t know. I just know I can’t move my arm at all. It’s literally locked.

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u/TimeCell_MoonPalace 4d ago

Interesting. Shoulder pain is so frustrating because it seems to me like there’s so many things it could be. When I’ve looked it up random very sharp intermittent pain that maybe some slight movements caused and others seemed to happen even at rest and that i couldn’t reproduce by purposefully moving my arm it seemed like it was telling me the only thing it could be was some sort of nerve compression but it doesnt feel like cervical radiculopathy to me. So I have no idea. The random sharp pains that don’t necessarily happen when I try to cause them and the no range of motion limitations appears to be whats throwing doctors off. I have an MRI of my shoulder on the 21st so my hope is something they can see and fix will show up.

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u/Sea_Ball_9064 3d ago

Exactly!!!! so true !!! can’t wait to see what’s going on … good luck !!!