Sharp pain in left shoulder

Hi mserica ,ive had reflux for 6 years now and it started off with esophagitis and the symtoms where pain in left shoulder,nausea,belching and generally feeling unwell,so i would say your shoulder pain is reflux,as soon as i got on a ppi the pains went.Took a good 3 months to get settled though. Barry

I have had periodic severe pains as such of the last few years. The pain radiates and extends from the upper right pectoral up and over the clavicle and down into the upper and lower trapezius. Sharp stabbing pain in the clavicle when to breath deep, cough, burp or hiccup or anything that jolts the area of description. I am becoming more and more convinced that it is due to an over back up or gas build up in a certain pocket of the upper right portion of the large intestine of causing the an issue here. Suddenly, after about 30 hours of the severe pain. I will have a half day of a continued frequent massive expelling of gas (flatulence). After such episodes for a few hours - the pain in the effected shoulder dissipates and disappears. Whew much better. I mean it renders me useless in all activities in the time frame of the severe pain. Can not eat and can not sleep comfortably. As someone else posted that the severe pain does tend to conjure up a panic attack (of which is not helpful) as of thinking with in something else must be majorly wrong. Especially when you had no major physical trauma to the area.

~Relieved~

I was diagnosed with Hiatal Hernia and GERD 16 years ago. These past few years I decided to go off of the Protonix I had been taking as I know that it's not good to take PPI's long term. I thought that I would try "natural" cures for my issues instead. It really did seem to be working until last week when I ended up in the ER in the middle of the night with a horrible GERD episode. I really wasn't careful what I was eating either. Now -- I am going on the GERD DIET after I recover.

I had been ill with the FLU and made the HUGE mistake of taking Mucinex for the congestion. I apparently had an allergic reaction and felt as if I was choking and being smothered and then the panic attacks started. I couldn't breathe from the esophagus closing up and it was just very scary. The hospital did nothing about the GERD, they only gave me an Xray for the flu....no pneumonia and an asthma treatment which made me worse....apparently had a reaction to that too. Don't understand why ER docs don't think differently??? GERD never even came up even though I kept telling them about it and they could clearly see I was in panic mode. They just kept thinking pneumonia. They told me that I have some weird viral thing that there is NO treatment for. Said it would take 5 weeks to go away fully. It's now been almost 4 weeks.

Finally went to the doctor this week and he gave me Nexium to heal up the inflammation - told me that I couldn't eat anything solid for a week...only drink liquids then if I could swallow, eat only soft foods. This has been very frustrating to deal with...I've lost 12 lbs. already. I was having the dry heaves and nothing would go down my throat...it felt as if a golf ball was in there. Haven't slept in nights. I have to sit up all night long or the acid comes up into my throat. Never had this before....don't EVER take Mucinex its just the kiss of death.

The Doc also put me on Zoloft for the panic attacks. I guess the stress I've had for the past several years just got to me now. I have an adult child with disabilities that lives with us and my husband lost his job about 5 months ago. It must be totally subconscious. I do get Migraine headaches and take over the counter Excedrin Migraine for it. This too may have irritated my stomach/hiatal hernia.

I noticed that several others have commented on pain in the left shoulder. I too have had pain in the left shoulder, upper right chest (ribs) and my scapula for a few days now. I am wondering if it's gas or pulled muscles from my panic attack episodes when I couldn't breathe?

My right side doesn't NOT hurt at all....it's so weird. Can't figure out if it's this stupid flu or gas or pulled muscles? Each time I take a deep breath it really hurts. Have tried a heating pad and doesn't really do too much. It's been difficult to burp as well. I may try Gas-X or Beano to see if that helps. Just so frustrated and really scared that this doesn't happen again.....can't live this way.