Sorry to come late to this conversation. I had what my GP ( UK) told me was frozen shoulder.I was a Psych nurse working with elderly many of which were non weight bearing and back in those days we had no hoists. After 10 yrs of suffering and still working my GP told me "you will have to change your career and learn to live with it".At which I answered "then I don't want to live with it anymore" and burst into tears. I couldn't lift my arm but as long as I kept my arm to my side or lifted it bringing it round in a semi circle in front of me I could still work. At my sudden tears he decided to send me to see an ortho surgeon. The surgeon told me as he walked into his office while I sat waiting " I am 90% sure I know what it is before we even MRI it and I can make you 99% pain free. I had a small build up of calcium that he removed and 6 weeks later I could lift my arm. I have since had the other shoulder done and the 1st one redone yrs later. I still suffer with a small amount of pain in and around that 1st one and I'm SURE if my GP had listened to me and sent me to see the surgeon sooner I wouldn't still have that residual pain. I think we have to be our own advocate and pressure Dr's to do more

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