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Left shoulder blade muscle... stinking, sharp, burning pain
I get this extremely bad knot in my left shoulder blade muscle area....between the blade and my spinal chord area... when i stuff envelopes or cook or fish.. it gets excruciatingly bad.. i know its just one of the muscles.. but why is it ONLY the LEFT side all the time and how can i minimize the pain because it gets to where i cant hold my head up sometimes. It was knotted so bad the other day, it started to make my neck have a numbing/stinging excruciating feeling going up my spine from the beginning sore spot.. i just dont know how to cure it...
There is a good chance that if the scalene muscles in the neck are tight the synergistic serratus posterior superior muscle is also going to be affected and vice versa.
The pain area you describe - upper inside border of your left shoulder blade - is the site for the referred pain due to active trigger points in the serratus posterior superior muscle.
The burning sensation which radiates down your left arm to your hand, the changes in skin color, and the popping veins (venous obstruction) are symptoms of brachial plexus entrapment due to tight scalene muscles.
SItting at a desk for long periods with your shoulders elevated and slouched (rotated forward) aggravates your condition.
The pain area you describe - upper inside border of your left shoulder blade - is the site for the referred pain due to active trigger points in the serratus posterior superior muscle.
The burning sensation which radiates down your left arm to your hand, the changes in skin color, and the popping veins (venous obstruction) are symptoms of brachial plexus entrapment due to tight scalene muscles.
SItting at a desk for long periods with your shoulders elevated and slouched (rotated forward) aggravates your condition.
Hello, I'm a 19 year-old girl. As far as past medical history, I have a very minor form of simple partial epilepsy (seizures are under control - I haven't had them in 2 years) and panic disorder, in case they have anything to do with my excruciating left shoulder/upper back pain. I've never fallen or gotten into an accident, but I do have poor posture, and like most students now-a-days, I used to carry a heavy backpack.
Basically, I feel the pain right under the inside border of my left shoulder blade (the side that's closer to my spine), almost as if it's radiating from a muscle. Sometimes the pain also feels like it's right under the upper inside corner of my left shoulder blade. The most obvious symptom is when that area cracks if I rotate my shoulder. People can sometimes hear the cracks if they are very close to me. It's also not nearly as flexible (especially if I push it backward) as my right shoulder. I do get a burning sensation which sometimes radiates down my left arm to my hand. Almost every time I type for a long time (e.g. if I'm writing a paper on the computer) the color of my skin strangely gets tanner and the veins of my left hand pop out.
One time my friend massaged me in the area where I experienced pain and she said she clearly felt a knot right in that area but after she did it, I was in excruciating pain. Last summer, I went to a specialist who at first diagnosed me with a slipped disc. After looking at the MRI she then said she was wrong. She sent me to physical therapy. They said it was my levator scapulae and massaged me. I was also put on Relafin and other pills like that and I have NEVER experienced that much pain in my life. It got so bad that I couldn't even life my arm for longer than a couple of seconds to do my hair. I went to another specialist who said part of it was bursitis, but I did not go further with physical therapy as I was starting school again and was afraid to experience any more sort of pain because it was so distracting.
Sorry this is so lengthy, but basically, I have been experiencing burning, cracking, sore pain under my left shoulder blade.
Thanks so so much! I'm so desperate!!!
Basically, I feel the pain right under the inside border of my left shoulder blade (the side that's closer to my spine), almost as if it's radiating from a muscle. Sometimes the pain also feels like it's right under the upper inside corner of my left shoulder blade. The most obvious symptom is when that area cracks if I rotate my shoulder. People can sometimes hear the cracks if they are very close to me. It's also not nearly as flexible (especially if I push it backward) as my right shoulder. I do get a burning sensation which sometimes radiates down my left arm to my hand. Almost every time I type for a long time (e.g. if I'm writing a paper on the computer) the color of my skin strangely gets tanner and the veins of my left hand pop out.
One time my friend massaged me in the area where I experienced pain and she said she clearly felt a knot right in that area but after she did it, I was in excruciating pain. Last summer, I went to a specialist who at first diagnosed me with a slipped disc. After looking at the MRI she then said she was wrong. She sent me to physical therapy. They said it was my levator scapulae and massaged me. I was also put on Relafin and other pills like that and I have NEVER experienced that much pain in my life. It got so bad that I couldn't even life my arm for longer than a couple of seconds to do my hair. I went to another specialist who said part of it was bursitis, but I did not go further with physical therapy as I was starting school again and was afraid to experience any more sort of pain because it was so distracting.
Sorry this is so lengthy, but basically, I have been experiencing burning, cracking, sore pain under my left shoulder blade.
Thanks so so much! I'm so desperate!!!
Yes, read what I wrote on September 27, 2010 regarding torn labrums.
If it doesn't hurt your left shoulder when you reach overhead I would reconsider the source of your pain since your glenoid labrum tear is small and the pain you're experiencing is on the opposite side of your body. Plus, you wrote that the pain is aggravated when you sit for long periods of time.
If it doesn't hurt your left shoulder when you reach overhead I would reconsider the source of your pain since your glenoid labrum tear is small and the pain you're experiencing is on the opposite side of your body. Plus, you wrote that the pain is aggravated when you sit for long periods of time.
I have a torn Glenoid Labrum. This is causing all my back problems. I can't get a doctor who will fix it. They tell me it a small tear and they will not do surgery to fix it. I tried the physical therapy it did not work either. The tear is on the left shoulder but the right side gives me fits. I will wake up with muscle spasm either in my neck or my shoulder blades. I have been living with this for years. I have one muscle on the right that burns when I am sitting on the couch or at the movies. I can't sit still for long periods of time. I have a desk job so this seems to make things worse. OH yeah how I got the torn Labrum is anybody's guess. I am thinking it was from leaning on my elbow causing my shoulder to protrude. I caught myself doing that.
Yes, thank you for pointing that out. The affected muscle can be either on the left or the right.
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