JasonHolder
on youtube. learning to be a gent
Ride hard!!! Until your pegs are shredded and you have gills forming on your neck 
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Second injection
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ScotiaLass
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I was sceptical about it and the first was was only a very slight improvement until abut 2 weeks before the next one.Does it make a big difference?
I had a shoulder impingement about a year ago and couldn't do any kind of pushing or pressing exercises for about six months, my doctor was talking about me having one.
By the time I had been refered and eventually got to see a specialist it had started to ease a bit, and he mentioned it but said he'd send me for physio first.
I'm still waiting to be contacted for a physio appointment, good job it cleared up on it's own.
I mentioned this and was told they take a few weeks to work.
At one point my shoulder was so bad I really couldn't do much at all and was living on painkillers.
Now I rarely take them although I always take them before a ride as the arthritis in my spine doesn't like me riding
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ScotiaLass
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It hasn't stopped me! Just swallow a painkiller and go!Ride hard!!! Until your pegs are shredded and you have gills forming on your neck
JasonHolder
on youtube. learning to be a gent
Steroids and painkillers. Good job
any mountain KOMs yet? Lol rather QOMs pardon me 
I was sceptical about it and the first was was only a very slight improvement until abut 2 weeks before the next one.
I mentioned this and was told they take a few weeks to work.
At one point my shoulder was so bad I really couldn't do much at all and was living on painkillers.
Now I rarely take them although I always take them before a ride as the arthritis in my spine doesn't like me riding
So they didn't turn you into Arnold Schwar.. wotsisname?
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ScotiaLass
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Nah...the mountain biking has toned up my arms and legs a bit though
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ScotiaLass
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Who what now?Steroids and painkillers. Good job
Ganymede
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I hope it improves ScotiaLass - I will hear with interest as I am having an investigation on my own shoulder soon. I hurt it in a fall in January and thought it was mending, but it's come back with a vengeance and like you I can't lie on that side unless with painkillers. I am probably not as bad as you - I can do most things but they just hurt! My doc does steroid jabs but said "I'm not sticking a needle in there, far too complicated" and referred me.
I found Ibuprofen gel (the strong 10% kind, not the regular 5%) useful but now have been given co-codamol (or codidramol or whatever, can't remember offhand) which is improving my sleep.
Hey ho, fellow sufferer! Get well soon!
I found Ibuprofen gel (the strong 10% kind, not the regular 5%) useful but now have been given co-codamol (or codidramol or whatever, can't remember offhand) which is improving my sleep.
Hey ho, fellow sufferer! Get well soon!
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Funnily enough my GP also does joint injections but wouldn't touch my shoulder.
I had it x-rayed which found no calcium deposits or arthritis which is what they were looking for.
I'm on Voltarol for my pain...it's good stuff and the occasional nausea far outweighs the pain relief it gives me!
I hope you get yours sorted soon!
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I missed what the prob is SL, can you repeat - only louder, I am a long way away you know.
I had a shoulder problem once, the one where putting on a coat is agony which is unlikely to be what you are talking about but one injection was totally ineffective but the second one worked and the guy told me that just whacking it in the shoulder was not good enough (a criticism of the first try) and you had to know exactly where to stick it. My problem was solved with VIOX just before it was withdrawn.
Another thing I learned was that the shoulder joint is a ball joint, imagine that? anyway there is a benefit in exploring what you can do arm outstretched palm up compared with palm down.
Anyway, all that to say that I hope you get it all sorted and well again/
I had a shoulder problem once, the one where putting on a coat is agony which is unlikely to be what you are talking about but one injection was totally ineffective but the second one worked and the guy told me that just whacking it in the shoulder was not good enough (a criticism of the first try) and you had to know exactly where to stick it. My problem was solved with VIOX just before it was withdrawn.
Another thing I learned was that the shoulder joint is a ball joint, imagine that? anyway there is a benefit in exploring what you can do arm outstretched palm up compared with palm down.
Anyway, all that to say that I hope you get it all sorted and well again/
Julia9054
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I have shoulder impingement too stemming from a rotator cuff tear 8 years ago. Now I have calcium deposits in the tendon. Every so often I do something stoopid and set off the pain and inflammation again. (This time it was arm wrestling my teenage kids in the mistaken belief that I might still be able to beat them!)Does it make a big difference?
I had a shoulder impingement about a year ago and couldn't do any kind of pushing or pressing exercises for about six months, my doctor was talking about me having one.
By the time I had been refered and eventually got to see a specialist it had started to ease a bit, and he mentioned it but said he'd send me for physio first.
I'm still waiting to be contacted for a physio appointment, good job it cleared up on it's own.
I have my first physio appointment tomorrow - four months after first seeing the doctor and having a scan - and in the meantime it has got much better on its own too. Just hurts at night now. Going to feel a bit of a fraud saying "I used to have a hurty shoulder"
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ScotiaLass
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That's what they thought I had to begin with.
It's being treated as adhesive capsulitis.
