On April 1st my shoulder randomly began hurting. I have played volleyball for approx. 12 years at high levels...so the doctors said that they think this may have caused something that I just tweeked that night. I attended physical therapy for a little less than 2 months...and nothing helped. They did an MRI but it came back pretty normal, no tears or anything. The PT sent me to see an orthopedic dr. Last Monday (8 days ago) I saw the dr. He basically spent less than 5 minutes with me, pulled on my arms a little to check for joint laxivity, and said that was pretty normal too. Then the dr. gave me a cortisone shot into the bursa, which he said would help. The shot did nothing...instead of pain mostly in the front of the shoulder, it was mainly along the side and top...but still hurt all over. Today (Tuesday) I went back to the orthopedic dr. to see how the shot went. When he saw it did not help he spent less than 5 min. again pulling on my arms and percribed another cortisone shot (8 days after the last one). This time he shot it into my shoulder joint. It was ok, but hurt a little after the shot. About 2 hours after the shot my shoulder hurts worse than ever! It hurts in places it did not before. I am unable to raise my arm straight out or next to my arm without severe pain. Now I also can't cross my arm over my chest. Is this pain normal? I am going halfway across the contry in a week from today...so I kind of need to get this figured out! What should I do to help this pain and what do you think is the problem?
Thanks!!