Helen, I hope you find relief with your bursitis soon. I have never experienced that, only inflammation of the tendon. I know it involves the fluid sacs at your joints. Perhaps knowing the cause will help to find a remedy. To have a frozen shoulder for 20 years has got to be awful with the pain. How do you avoid the use of an arm? I know someone who had a frozen shoulder. PT exercises did not help at all. In fact the symptoms were very much like tendonitis of the shoulder. Putting the arm behind the back was difficult and very painful and so was extending the arm above 90 degrees. I tried to avoid those movements. It wasn’t easy. The moment I felt the pain when reaching for something, I stopped. Luckily it went away without medical intervention. It took a few months though.

I have had a hip problem for over 30 years. At first I was told it was tendonitis and took medications for it. I decreased certain motions but nothing helped. I just dealt with it until recently my hip started making clicking noises. My MRI revealed I had a hip labrum tear. I was told people who had surgical repair had developed arthritis in the hip early. I had no arthritis. Sometimes surgical intervention may not be the best solution. I had a wrong diagnosis initially. Goes to show doctors do not always have answers either. Fortunately, technology today has improved to allow for a more accurate medical diagnosis. We do the best we can with the choices we are given. We owe it to ourselves to be our own advocate. After all we know our pain better than our doctors. Wish you the best, Toni