"I'm One of a Select Few" Topic

About 3 years ago I had a shoulder injury (labral tear) that resulted in adhesive capsulitis (frozen shoulder). Extremely painful with resrticted range of motion. A little surgery, a little physical tort…uhhh therapy, and it's usable.

About 5% of people who develop AC in one shoulder get it in the other. I got it. I'm soooo lucky.

Good thing is, it's not as advanced as the original shoulder yet. I'm going to treat it as aggressively as I can stand and hopefully return it to a semi-useful state.

My main concern is work. They aren't big fans of alternate work assignments. Tending to put folks on short-term disability. I have short and long-term disability pay if I need it, but it's only 60% and decreases over time. Once I return, there's no guarantee I'd have my old job, just A job. Of all our contracts, the one I'm working on is the only one that is stable/growing. All others are down-sizing or closing outright.

So for now it looks like pain, pain, and more pain, and the strongest non-narcotic NSAIDs I can get my hands on (can't take narcotics).

Well, whatever you do for non-narco pain meds,
*stay away* from Tramidol !

Best of luck. My wife is still having severe pain
from her shoulder surgery (actually, the scalene
block administered post-op by some ham-handed
trainee…). That was back in December '08.

What's wrong w/ Tramadol? It works with minimal GI side effects for me.

Oh boy. I'm about to start therapy for a shoulder injury, too. This sounds like so much fun. I had some narcotics for a while, useless. Did nothing for the pain, just made me really messed up for a few hours.

I had frozen shoulder years ago .. what a pain in the behind. Fortunately, no sugery, but a few months of physical therapy worked it out. Wishing you the best as I know the feeling.

One percocet before therapy, three times a week and I was a near zombie at work all week. I would sit down at the computer and two hours later I'd be staring at the same thing I pulled up when I started. Thank God for an understanding boss.

My wife just had surgery for what they thought was frozen shoulder, but turned out to be a rotator cuff tear, torn cartilege, a tear in the bicep tendon, and a huge bone spur. Good luck with it, and we wish you a speedy recovery.

I still wonder whether Tramadol should have been classed as a controlled substance vs just a prescription drug. I recommend steering clear unless using for short-term pain relief.

Mark

Lord H., my wife had a very severe allergic reaction to
Tramadol and darn near died ! I don't know about today,
but an antidote (actually, two medicines are needed)
was not available in '97.

Luck, a stout constitution and a superb ED team got her
through it with 'only' lingering SE's.