re: Shoulder help

Could be rotator cuff, which if you need surgery, it's one of the worst in terms of pain and recovery. If it's not a rotator cuff tear, it could be, depending on your age, just arthritis and bone spurs. Could be bicep tendon issues. I have had it all. Am facing a total shoulder replacement in a few years. Get an MRI and see what the issue is. A few weeks of PT sometimes helps. Dry needling (similar to accupunture) sometimes helps. I'd probably avoid a chiropractor.

Well, unless there was an event or some kind of repeated trauma its probably not a tear.

Whats more likely is-

If you sleep on your side, (like i do) the pressure on that shoulder's tendons against underlying bone can cause them to become inflamed. Its called an impingement. I experienced this about two years ago, and my shoulder has never been the same. First of all it literally took an entire year or more to beat the inflammation. I was on the verge of seeking a cortisone shot.

Now it flares up every time I put any zip on a baseball, football, or disc.

I take ibuprofen before and after playing, and I have my shoulder in a cold compress wrap asap after throwing. Once it flares up its hell to get rid of, and can take months.

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Still can't sleep on my left shoulder by the way, can move it, just can't sleep on it

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Same here... I had a distal clavicle resection performed on my left shoulder in 2007 (at age 41) and it still bothers me. My problem was a misdiagnosed injury that became arthritic over time and was cumulative from years of exercise and activity. Good luck to anyone who must deal with a joint injury, they are no bueno.

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Now it flares up every time I put any zip on a baseball, football, or disc.

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If you have that kind of chronic nature to it, I would strongly suggest just proceeding to surgery so as to prevent the chronic inflammation from provoking a formal tear of one of the rotator cuff tendons (usually supraspintous muscle) over time. Recovery from an isolated decompression procedure without a cuff tear is pretty easy. I’ve had both shoulders done and been back performing surgery on people in < 2 days both times.

We all know what this is from Cobra, but no one is saying it ;)

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my brother in law went to a chiropractor

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Chiropractors are quacks....glorified massage therapists

Any relief in your shoulder?

i had left shoulder pain and couldn't lift my arm over my head without pain. went to a shoulder specialist at the ms sports medicine clinic. he turned me, twisted me, stretched me, etc. then says “it’s not your shoulder.” i thought he was crazy.
he sent me down the hall to the spine specialist. he did an mri and told me it was disc damage in my neck. i scheduled a surgery and he replaced discs 3, 4, and 5.
that was in 2013 and my shoulder hasn't hurt since.

I'll throw my 2 cents worth in also...if you will take your right hand and slam it in the car door 3 or 4 times really really hard, you will forget all about the pain in your left shoulder, and every other pain you have. It works for me every time.

Seriously though, my fiancee had a case similar to yours. Turned out to be frozen shoulder, not saying yours is just that the symptoms were very similar. My point is, I highly
highly recommend that, if you can, go to Andrews Institute. I can't stress it enough, DO IT. SHe went to a few local orthos and they wanted to do surgery immediately to see if they could "...see what the issue was". We went to Andrews in Gulf Shores, had all the tests and MRI done, diagnosed it almost immediately and sent her to PT for a couple of months, which didn't work, before he finally decided to do surgery.

It was crazy b/c I was expecting to be more miserable than her b/c of the pain level we had heard/expected for her and dreaded the thought of playing nurse. She had a nerve block the first 3 days after surgery, very little pain meds and then after that, very very little pain. I kid you not, worth the drive over and back from Gulf Shores and will never go anywhere else for anything. Have sent 3 other people there, all with same results.

I attribute it to Dr. Jordan at Andrews Institute and his skill level so I can't push you enough to them. Don't even waste your time with any other orthos, go to Andrews in B'ham, same group of orthos as Gulf Shores. And no, I don't work for, nor am I making any money from them for this post. I just couldn't believe how well her surgery and recovery went resulting in her 100% shoulder movement she achieved. Again, Andrews Institute is legit and I can see why a huge majority of athletes go to them for their issues.

Hope you get better soon.