Shoulder worse after cortisone - 5 months post-op

Yeah my shoulder hurts for a day or so after a cortisone injection. then it settles down.

I've had countless injections into my left shoulder when I was in high-school, they'd hurt for 2-3 days afterwards, but generally things would start to calm down after a few days. By my senior year though (they started doing them my freshman year), it would hurt for almost a week. The last one hurt for two weeks, that's when I finally told my parents to send me to a real doctor.

Alcie-

I too had way worse pain for a few days after a shoulder injection. My daughter had one a month ago and it hurt for almost 2 weeks and then just stopped hurting on day. Her's was a bicep tendon though.

Hope it starts to help soon.

Take care,
Bill

So very sorry you have to go thru this pain without much to help it. Hope you start healing and feeling better. Have you start physical therapy yet? Maybe let them know what you pain levels are at and maybe the could better inform you about if you should call your doctor.
Hope your doing better soon and give yourself time to heal up.
many well wishes.

You may want to seek out a specialist, if you can, in sports medicine. Someone from the James Andrews "school" if possible. If he could reconstruct Drew Brees' shoulder - According to the story on ESPN I read, Dr Andrews saw the injury live on TV, diagnosed it from the instant replays, then got a phone call from Drew's agent two hours later after the Chargers doctors got a look at the xrays. He could fix just about anything that still has all of the parts available.

Plus he's done major league pitcher's shoulders and elbows, Bo Jackson's hip, basketball and hockey player's back surgeries, and returned them to professional sports after surgery. A cup of coffee should be no problem. I know Andrews himself has practices in Birmingham AL and Pensacola FL, but a lot of docs (like a second residency) have worked for him to pick up his techniques, then gone on to open their own practices. He actually encourages that because he think reconstructive surgery is taught incompletely in med schools in the US. He went to Vienna to study that after graduating from Vanderbilt and LSU.

You find one of his guys, and you have someone who knows what is up. And they don't just operate on guys like Charles Barkley. They do reconstructive surgery, no matter what you do for a living. Crunching or clicking is called crepitus in medical terms and is a bad thing that needs to have the source found, before it causes more and permanent damage.

In EMT school, crepitus is the term we used when two broken pieces of bone were rubbing together. The clicking and crunching is without a doubt abnormal, and should be attended to. It does not necessarily need an MRI. I had a similar problem with my knee when I was about 23, The ortho just placed his hand on it, and moved my lower leg around until he hit one place that almost made me punch him in his bald spot. He said "That's a little sensitive?" Smart aleck.

He finally figured out what was going on just by doing that range of motion and feeling the joint move. After draining some fluid from my knee, he slid my dislocated kneecap back into place (that was fun), and it didn't hurt as much when he did the range of motion test again. Problem located and solved on the exam table. He put me on crutches for a couple of weeks just to make sure, but no permanent damage.