FROZEN SHOULDER OUCH

I know no one really wants to hear more about my health problems, but just in case anyone else develops this condition anytime soon, take care of it quick. It may save you a lot of pain, lost sleep and frustration.

I started back in January with a slight twinge in the back of my shoulder joint. I was going to a low impact aerobic- weight training program. When I felt the pain in my shoulder and it didn't get any better after a week or two, I decided that I had probably pulled something and quit going. After a few weeks the pain was still there and getting worse so I decided I had a spur or had really torn something. So why didn't I go to the doctor immediately? Well I am always convinced that if you wait long enough things will get better on their own. Duh! After four months I convinced myself that I could tough it out until school was out and I would get my yearly physical and find out the problem then.

Well as I have said I had my physical a couple of weeks ago. My doctor seemed to think I had developed arthritis so she gave me a steroid shot. That relieved the inflammation for a couple of days. Then I decided to get an appointment with a bone doctor. He told me that I had FROZEN SHOULDER, that it would last anywhere from 6 months to 2 years. WELL YE PEE! He gave me some orders to visit a therapist and a prescription for depression. Well I do get annoyed and depressed when I am in constant pain, but I think I need to handled that some other way than with depression medicine. So I got some extra strengh Tynol and began to tough it out a while longer.

Well this morning after another sleepless night I decided to call a Chiropractor. Joey is a friend of the family and he was able to get me in today. When he examined my back, he told me that my neck, shoulder and back was out of alignment. He adjusted my neck and it sounded like pop corn popping. Then he tells me that he can reset my shoulder and it will speed up the healing. Well I knew that it was going to hurt like a son of a gun when he used the words reset. But, I'm already in pain what's a little more if it will help.

Dr. Joey stands behind me and gets my arm into the adjustment position and tells me this is probably going to sting a little. He pulls my shoulder and arm back against him and I swear it sounded like a shotgun in my ears. I felt like someone had hit me with a ball bat and I broke out in a cold sweat and hung on to Dr. Joey's arm. I had to just sit there and wait until the pain went away. I knew as soon as I was able to get past the sick feeling that I was finally going to be able to move that blasted shoulder. I could raise it above my head, move it toward my back and rotate it around in a circle. This is stuff I had not been able to do in months. I know it is going to be really sore for awhile and I will have to continue to do the exercise to keep it moving and I will have to go for some follow up treatments. It is such a relief to just be able to lie on my stomach without my shoulder hurting. Maybe I will be able to get a good nights sleep for a change.

If you start having pain don't let it get out of control before you have it checked out. If I had had this taken care of sooner, I wouldn't have had to go through this much pain today, but the way I feel right now, it was worth it.