Should i be concerned over labs?

[Ashley41986]

Hi all, I will try to keep this as short as possible. I went for an annual visit to my GP July 5th. My only complaint was tingling in my hands once in awhile. I would wake up with and would subside by the evening. My labs came back good from that visit. On August 25th I started to have shoulder and upper arm pain. My GP suggested an x-ray which came back good. I ended up going to an urgent care unit two days later because pain was going into my other other shoulder and neck. The dr gave me a muscle relaxer and steroid which I started taking the next morning. At 2am that night I was in the emergency room. With severe pain and shaking. No fever, heart rate was fine) the doctor ran labs and concluded that I have pinched nerves in my neck or shoulders and that the steroid I was prescribed caused my reaction. He gave me ibuprofen and a different steroid (predisone) and ran labs. He went over labwork and other than keystones being off (dehydration) he said everything came back normal. I'm feeling somewhat better today. I did notice after looking over my labs that some day "abnormal" I'm trying to reassure myself that if anything were concerning the doctor would have let me know. I guess I just do not like seeing that word and not knowing why something would be abnormal. Should I go see my GP again? Or just trust the er docor? As far as my diagnosis of pinched nerve, I have coslept with two children for almost 3 years and have breastfed the entire time.

[specialmom]

The pinched nerve theory of your pain does sound right for the symptoms you describe in my non medical opinion.  My husband had a pinched nerve in that area and had those same issues. He had a trigger for the pinched nerve and once that was eliminated, he got better without medical intervention other than the ibuprofen he regularly took at that time.  (weird but the power drive on our mower went out and he was pushing it by force and we have a hilly and bumpy yard and it took great force to push that mower.  He was in agony after mowing.  We had someone mow our yard for us and it got better.  He hadn't put it together yet it was the mowing and started mowing again, back came the pain.  Got the mower drive fixed so it now moves on it's own when you have the lever switched on and no pain.  But he had almost exactly what you describe, went to an orthopedic surgeon and was considering surgery.  Once we realized it was the mower, he's better.  That was two years ago and no reoccurance.)  

I guess I would want to know what the labs that say abnormal were all about but yes, I think the doctor would have told you if there were any areas of concern. You can take your lab results to your primary care physician to review if you are worried.  But a bigger consideration is this pinched nerve causing so much trouble.  Let us know how this transpires!