Ok, I'm almost going to be 30 years old. I have had pain on my left side for 2 years. I work in the sales/marketing field, sitting at a desk for 8 hours straight, vigorously typing and talking on the phone. I also was lifting heavy bins at work too. I told my boss in 2008 that I needed a headset, he got me one since I had pain in my neck and burning in my shoulder. I went to see a Chiropractor in Aug of 2008. He tried Active Release Technique on me since he thought I had nerve entrapments. He also requested an MRI of my C spine. The MRI came back inconclusive but he continued the therapy with me which only made me feel worse. It ached whenever he did the therapy. I had to stop him. He tried also muscle stim and that only aggravated my nerves. I stopped seeing him in November of 2008. I wasn't getting any better. I told my boss I NEEDED to STOP LIFTING! HE DIDN'T LISTEN.
Over the year of 2009, I was progressively getting worse with pain in my arm so bad. I had to have my poor boyfriend rub me which didn't help at all. It was for piece of mind that I wanted someone to rub me. I was in so much pain everyday. In November of 2009, pain was worse than ever and traveling to other places in my body now like in my lower back and over my left pecs which I didn't have before. I only had pain in my neck, back, shoulder, arm, elbow, wrist and all my fingers only on my left side before feeling worse. I saw another Chiropractor. He thought it was a bulging disc from my C spine and thought it was from bad posture. He tried the Mackenzie method with me and it made me feel sick to my stomach. He also had me get massages. They did NOT help me. I had to stop.
Finally in January of 2010, I was lifting something heavy again at work and I felt burning and straining bad in my neck, arm, and shoulder. I had to work the next day. I did it one armed. Thank Goodness I'm right handed. The pain just got worse by the days after that incident. I couldn't wash my hair and I was beginning to get numbness in my left leg. I was so freaked. I finally went to an Ortho Surgeon 3 days later. He ordered another MRI for my C spine which came up inconclusive - Again. He then ordered me to have an EMG done to see what nerve issues I had going on. The EMG showed only Carpal Tunnel Syndrome. My doctor shot cortizone in my left wrist and it did me no good. He also prescribed all types of medicine for me with the diagnosis being radiculopathy of the neck and wrist. The medicines he's prescribed have not worked at all.
I have realized something in the past few days. I realize that my doctor is trying a trial and error method with me. He shot the cortizone to see if that would stop the pain in my arm. It didn't. This pain is coming from my neck and my shoulder. He also put me in physical therapy for 2 weeks, which was making me worse. I had to stop that too.
Whenever I sit at the computer, I have burning in my shoulder over left scapula, and my shoulder hurts at the front, side, and next to left scapula. It is very sore. My elbow still aches also as well as my neck on the left side in between the side of my neck and shoulder. I am not able to rotate my shoulder much anymore and I also feel like it's grinding when I rotate the left one as opposed to the right one where I feel no grinding. It also hurts down my left side under my armpit and also now in my lower left back which I never had before. My thoughts are I hurt my Rotator Cuff. It is the only thing they have not looked at yet and nothing else has helped. No massages, no medicine of any kind, not even Lyrica, no Cortizone, no Physical Therapy. Nothing helps me. Even when I'm laying down I have pain. I have an appointment with my doctor on the 16th of this month. What do you all think? Do you think it could be Rotator? And if so, what happens now? And if it's not, then what? Help!
Thank you!