This past week I have been dealing with some serious shoulder pain. Of course it would come and go and migrate to different parts of the shoulder all through the day. Classic Lyme
But yesterday while I was playing tennis (after a spectacular backhand winning shot-- hooray!!) I got a sudden sharp/burning pain in my shoulder that escalated into HUGE, unrelenting pain that brought tears to my eyes.
The pain lasted through the night and I was certain I had torn a muscle right off the bone or had chipped a bone or had destroyed a rotator cuff muscle--- that's how bad it hurt!!!
So I rushed myself to the emergency room this morning expecting the worst.
An X-ray was taken which revealed a completely healthy shoulder joint and the MRI only showed mild inflamation--- which in the doctor's words was 'age related'. IOW's he was saying that I'm OLD and WORN OUT ! Tylenol was prescribed.
I didn't discuss Lyme with the ER doctor because we all know where that can go....
.....but my gosh 
! Though I am happy my shoulder is healthy in the conventional sense (which I suspected it would be and that Lyme was really the culprit), I never realized how horribly painful Lyme inflamation can feel (until now) even when there isn't much of it to see on an MRI.
From the way my shoulder was hurting (down my arm and into upper back by that time) you'd think the inflamation would be visually off the charts in the MRI results. Not the case.
This rather new shoulder issue is now my biggest remaining symptom. But just like my tennis elbow, ankle pain, knee pain and stiff neck......it too shall pass. Soon I hope.
Lyme: the gift that keeps on giving! But I don't have any more 'new' places left in my body that Lyme can attack. It's hit all the bases already--- every single part of me.
This better be it !!!!! 
