Frozen Shoulder, My Pain
If there’s something I learned from a traumatic experience when my brother got into a coma is that there’s no assurance of a cure no matter how you seek help from the experts or pray day and night.
So here I am very stubborn. I self diagnosed myself with a frozen shoulder.
Last year, I went to an urgent care due to severe pain on my right shoulder that my range of motion got messed up. I was prescribed with oral Prednisone.
I’m not a fan of taking medications except when I’m in terrible pain which is every month during my period. Just as I always say Dysmenorrhea is my curse. After that month, I received a bill owing $400 from that visit despite having health insurance. I had no single clue why I owed that much but I was told it was like an emergency case. I was extremely disappointed.
At that time, I also went to a Chiropractor once but it did not work for me he wasn’t able to move me due to extreme pain. So I told myself from now on I’ll deal with my pain on my own.
I dealt with my left shoulder pain for like a year and miraculously over time my range of motion got better. However, while I recuperated from my right shoulder, my left shoulder started to have pain as well until it became severe every night. As expected, my daily activities got affected. I couldn’t move my arm up and down, reaching up or behind, even combing my hair, putting my underwire. I was like this is a big joke.
I read that frozen shoulder might be from a heart disease, stroke, arthritis etc.. Who knows, I have not had myself checked. Lab work and imaging tests will show. My biggest fear is that what if I found out that I have something major going on other than my frozen shoulder. It will hurt me in the long run by stressing with something I cannot control.
So I have been reading and doing my research, I’m convinced that it’s an arthritis and there is no cure but to reduce inflammation and pain management. I said to myself I don’t want to take Prednisone again as last time I checked I was retaining fluid and I gained weight.
I will just continue doing my own therapy, eat healthy food, do my exercise, pray and be motivated that my left shoulder get better and the pain goes away.
So here I am very stubborn. I self diagnosed myself with a frozen shoulder.
Last year, I went to an urgent care due to severe pain on my right shoulder that my range of motion got messed up. I was prescribed with oral Prednisone.
I’m not a fan of taking medications except when I’m in terrible pain which is every month during my period. Just as I always say Dysmenorrhea is my curse. After that month, I received a bill owing $400 from that visit despite having health insurance. I had no single clue why I owed that much but I was told it was like an emergency case. I was extremely disappointed.
At that time, I also went to a Chiropractor once but it did not work for me he wasn’t able to move me due to extreme pain. So I told myself from now on I’ll deal with my pain on my own.
I dealt with my left shoulder pain for like a year and miraculously over time my range of motion got better. However, while I recuperated from my right shoulder, my left shoulder started to have pain as well until it became severe every night. As expected, my daily activities got affected. I couldn’t move my arm up and down, reaching up or behind, even combing my hair, putting my underwire. I was like this is a big joke.
I read that frozen shoulder might be from a heart disease, stroke, arthritis etc.. Who knows, I have not had myself checked. Lab work and imaging tests will show. My biggest fear is that what if I found out that I have something major going on other than my frozen shoulder. It will hurt me in the long run by stressing with something I cannot control.
So I have been reading and doing my research, I’m convinced that it’s an arthritis and there is no cure but to reduce inflammation and pain management. I said to myself I don’t want to take Prednisone again as last time I checked I was retaining fluid and I gained weight.
I will just continue doing my own therapy, eat healthy food, do my exercise, pray and be motivated that my left shoulder get better and the pain goes away.
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