I've been having trouble with my shoulder since, oh, September or so. It's made worse by long hours at the keyboard and mouse, though just wearing my purse across my shoulder or driving can also trigger it. I get massive pain in my trapezeus muscle, which when really bad also goes up my neck and down my collarbone. I'm also unable to raise my arm higher than my shoulder.
I went to my doctor and she gave me a prescription for Naprosyn (higher dosage of Aleve). I had been taking it when the pain got really bad, and it felt like I was popping sugar pills - the pain was still there. I talked with the advice nurse a week or so ago and she told me I was taking it wrong. Apparently naprosyn is formost an antinflamatory and you have to take it for a week before you start seeing the effects. If after two I was still in agony then I could make an appt with the doctor.
Luckily, she seems to have been right. The visible knot has mostly subsided, and I can raise my arm completely over my head again with no pain. I also haven't been at the computer much lately, which I'm sure also helps. So yay! The shoulder is better.
Which makes the dream I had last night stranger, since I haven't been thinking about my shoulde lately. In my dream I will still in agony with it and went back to the doctor. They did an ultrasound on it (since the x-rays before had shown nothing (I don't know, it was a dream)). They ended up prepping me for immediate surgury, though I didn't find out why until afterwards. They had to remove a 12-pound tumor from my shoulder. It turned out that it wasn't a muscle knot, but that tumor all along. I saw the tumor afterwards and it was sort of brain/cauliflower shaped. I was happy because the pain was now gone, and hey, I had lost 12 pounds overnight. *shakes head*
