Left shoulder blade muscle... stinking, sharp, burning pain

[mightymouse23]

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...

[oradmoore]

Hi,I'm havin this pain in the back of my right shoulder, in the rhomboids area,
for almost a year now. the pain is not limiting my range of motion in the shoulder at all, but it is causing a lot of clicking noises when i'm spinning it around.
it feels like it's rubbing against my rib cage or something.
the pain started out of nowhere and it does'nt prevent me from working out, although I try not to lift heavy weights.
In the past months the pain started to aggravate gradually  and now I feel pain in my left scapula as well (not as severe as the right one), in my neck I feel the urge to stretch it all the time and I have these weird clicks that I've never had and also pain in my left side of the middle back (in the latissimus dorsi area).

also the pain in my right shoulder hurts especially when I sit without a back rest and it's a deep burning kind of ache all over the inner edge of the scapula and towards  the levator scapula and the upper trapezius.

I'm aware of the trigger points topic and I've been massaging myself with a tennis ball (with the sock trick) for 9 months now, doing deep breaths sessions and mobilizations but except for minor temporary relief after doing the massage, I can't seem to get rid of any of the trigger points.

any enlightenments on this? please help me..

thanks.

[syco1990]

had surgery on my left shoulder bicep long head dont have front pain anymore but have chrnioc back should blade pain where is this pain coming from it feels fine when i dont use it for a good 4 or 5 days like no swimming Streahing  n workin out any ideas what i should tell my OS

[mmagee9122]

I was laying in bed just now and I had a pain below or under my left shoulder blade. When I tried to sit up, the pain shot down my left side. This continued every time I attempted to sit up. I ended up just laying there until it went away which was about 5 minutes. Even after I was able to finally sit up the pain is still there a little around my left shoulder blade. This happens rarely to me but it has happened a couple times before. Any ideas?

[JSH10]

I too have had this pain.  It started in my neck and then radiated down my left side through and under my shoulder blade.  It progressed to my shoulder and sent shooting pains down my left arm.  It felt like several knives stabbed into my back with one going completely though my back into my chest.  The pain then went from just stabbing pain to pain like liquid fire through my left side down to my waist, under my arm and into my left breast.  I went to my orthopedic doctor who did x-rays and said that it was coming from nerve damage caused from two herniated discs in my neck. My general physician decided to do a mammogram to check to see if I had breast cancer or cysts in my breast.  I am waiting on the results.  I do not believe that is the problem.  I am a bookkeeper and am in such debilitating pain from this that I sit in my office with tears streaming down my face unable to use my left arm.  I am so afraid that I will lose my job.  The pain is so severe that I sometimes throw up which makes it worse.  My orthopedic doctor put me on Percocet at first.  This did NOTHING for the pain.  He then added nerve blocking medication used to treat nerve  pain and this helped block some of the pain but it makes me so dizzy and sleepy that I can only take it at night.  After this did not work he referred me to pain management.  I am still waiting for my first appointment.  I want to KNOW what this is, what is causing it and how to fix it!  I don't want a band aid.  I need help!

[Cat751]

hi,
I've just been reading some of the posts below and can relate to the pain others have listed.
I have been experiencing pain in my left shoulder blade which travels through to my left armpit. At the moment i am experience sharp needle like pain in my chest area just below my left clavicle.
could you please recommend some exercises to ease the pain.

[Marti130]

Hi, my boyfriend and I worked out at planet fitness with friends. His neck was a bit sore from sleeping on it wrong the night before. The gym had massage chairs and after the workout we used them. I stayed on for about 3 minutes and had it low intensity. My boyfriend, Chris used it for five minutes on high intensity. He then began having pain on the right side of his left scapula. I put some tiger balm on it and gave him ibuprofen in case of inflammation. It's the next day and he can't really move because of so much pain. We know it was from the massage chair, but I'm wondering what can we do to treat it. Please help.