Although it's not listed as a common symptom, some support groups have noted a lot of members with frozen shoulder.
I suffered with it for over a year myself, which caused problems with doing the filing at work, putting the dishes away at home, and getting dressed (when absolutely necessary, I did the required contortions, which gave me intense back spasms for at least an hour, but if I was staying home, it was less painful to just stay in my jammies -- which somehow got into my medical records as being too depressed to get dressed with no reference to any physical reason making the process very difficult and painful, and therefore best avoided).
Since my grandmother had shoulder problems from bursitis, it made perfect sense when the doctors diagnosed that I also had bursitis in my shoulder. I didn't connect it to the CFS/fibro and neither did they. It's one of many objective orthopedic reasons that VocRehab says I cannot work, and it's true, it caused problems with many parts of my job when I was still trying to work, and a lot of tasks that I simply could not do.
www.FrozenShoulder.com claims that it does run in families. They have self-help information and a short list of practitioners. I haven't tried their treatment and can't vouch for it.
Mine was solved without medical intervention. I passed out one day and fell with my arm forced above my head. My most trusted medical expert's theory was that all the lifting/carrying that my job required had probably caused damage, which healed as adhesions, and that fall tore them loose.
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I had this about 5 years ago. Man, it was VERY painful. I suffered for months with the pain before it was finally diagnosed. I originally thought it was pain from fibro. I couldn't sleep, couldn't work too well. They gave me a cortisone shot but the first one was in the wrong place and I had more pain then before. They finally got it right. I had some physical therapy but like the doctor said...it was going to heal on it's own, with or without therapy. That was the weirdest thing. It finally just worked it's way out. I don't ever want to get that again.
becca
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