I'm awaiting awnsers from a specialist, but I'm too anxious to keep waiting. You see, this all started about three years ago, I was working as a CNA and had a resident pop my shoulder out the posterior side. For six months I waited for some kind of reason to why I had no control of my arm, and why it popped out all the time. I finally got a specialist and went into surgery. All seemed well until a few months after surgery, when my arm again started popping out, but this time it was even more. To add to the discomfort, my scapula started to wing out. This time they did surgery to remove scar tissue from behind the scapula. Then, did another to tighten the anterior side. Now, over a year later, things couldn't be any harder. Just a few months after surgery things started to go down hill, but with workers comp issues, it's delayed any further treatment. I have continuos migranes, neck aches, my scapula again wings out, and grinds, shoulder pops out, it seems to be disconnected, or seperated rather than popped out, but it hurts. My shoulder literally sits funny, like it's pushed forward, and when I try to put in back so I don't look like a beefy footbal player, it catches and is very painful. The headaches and migranes seem to come from the swelling from the scapula. The weird thing is, I have a VERY high pain tolerance, and seem to never notice most problems. It's scary to hurt so bad b/c I'm really not used to it. I asked my doctor two things, why did the surgery fail, and why am I having such problems with the migranes. His response was that I was double jointed, so he doesn't know how the arm will stop stretching out (he also said this was going to happen no matter what b/c the double jointed, which I can't believe b/c I did this line of work for six and a half years, and NEVER had problems), and for the migranes, he agreed it's probably from swelling. Here's my question for the board.....if it's constantly swelling, and hurts in my neck and upper back, is this going to cause perm. damage? Should I be scared it's hurting my spine? And can it be fixed for good? I have a hard time accepting that it'll never be fixed, look at how many athletes are d.j.'d and go on with their lives. I'm so scared, can some one please help?