Muscle Pain

[Marcianne]

I have swelling of the upper arm.  It is muscle pain and began after I was inactive for 7 months and then became active again.  My upper arms were swollen on the outer side first and I could not sleep on my sides because it was too sore.   I went to a rheumatologist and was told I had frozen shoulder and should go to physical therapy.  I felt that the reason I could not move my one arm was because my arm was swollen and it would go against that area and was painful when I moved it.  As I began therapy, I was stretching the area and found that it worsened.  The pain was so bad I went to the ER.  I was told I had bursitis and sent home to see an orthapedic surgeon.   I went back to the Orthapedic surgeon and was told to see a rheumatologist.  I kept telling the doctors about the inflammation of my arm and how it was preventing my arm from moving out to the side and backwards.  I don't think I have frozen shoulder, but after getting a cortisone shot from the second orthapedic surgeon, he told me to go back to therapy for frozen shoulder.  The therapists are telling me that swelling is not a symptom of frozen shoulder.  The swollen area has moved from the outer side of  my arm all the way around the front of my arm.  The only area that is not sore and swollen is the area that lays against my body when my arm is at my side.  I am afraid that the therapy is hurting me.  I can't sleep and am applying ice all day and night, which helps but does not make the inflammation go down.  Has anyone experienced this?  It does feel tight and the inflammation wraps around my arm in the area of our vaccinations.

[kitonthemoon]

I have bursitis in,most parts of my body, luckily, never frozen shoulder.

You think perhaps when you get back to activity you over did it?  It never fails when I forgot I should slowly ease back into my stretching.  The physical therapy I went once worked me out so hard and did me more harm because they didn't understand FMS, specially not ME/CFS.

Sometimes, I use heating pad, in conjuction with a warm bath with epsom salt.  It kind'a helped.  

Feel better soon.
Kit

[Cindee56]

I have been to Physical therapy for several problems, and it always hurts more before it gets better.  You should tell the therapist that what they are doing is hurting too much.  

I do get swelling and pain in my biceps and was told this is from fibro.  But I can't say for sure in your case.  Were you lifting weights?  Lifting even light weights makes my arms and sometimes my thighs swell.

[PlateletGal]

I've never experienced this, but I do know that a "frozen shoulder" is very common in people who have Th1 illnesses (autoimmune diseases, fibro, CFS, etc.)