Sorry accidentally hit the post button. Anyway I made an appointment with the shoulder clinic for early the next morning. I thought that I would be hearing what my options would be going forward and then getting a third injection of cortisone since the second one had failed miserably. I hoped that one would last long enough for me to make an informed decision and get the process started. What actually happened was way different. The specialist I had seen before and who was the one who told me that if it failed the next step was to discuss surgery options with the surgeon talked to me for a few minutes and then left to get the surgeon. The surgeon walked through the door and stopped just beyond the door. He turned to me and said that Shoulder surgery and recovery is very painful and long and because I had fibromyalgia I wouldn't be able to handle it and he absolutely refuses to do any surgery on me. He repeated this again making sure to emphasize that he refuses to do any surgery on me because I have fibromyalgia and I wouldn't be able to handle the pain and then he turned and walked out. I sat stunned and totally silent. I had had fibromyalgia since 1988 and had had many surgeries since then including 2 full open back spinal fusions where not only did they fuse the vertebrae in my spine together but actually had to fully rebuild several of the vertebrae before they could attach the rods. Those were painful to the extreme both in physical pain from my back and the painful effects all the different types and versions of morphines they tried. It turned out that I am allergic to them so of course for the second one I didn't even have those to use. I left still totally shocked. Luckily the third injection I did get that day has lasted a little longer than the other two. The pain is back but not real bad yet so hopefully I will have time to meet with a new surgeon before it gets real bad again. The MRI I had done just recently required you to slide your injured shoulder under a triangle shaped piece of plastic that holds the shoulder completely immobile while the MRI is done. There is no more pain to it than what you went in with. You don't have to put it in all kinds of weird positions and hold it there for what seems forever like you do for a cat scan or x-ray thank god. You don't go home with anymore pain than when you came in. Hopefully it will give your dr as much information as it did mine.