Ha! Sounds just like me! I had my first MRI because I thought I had a pinched nerve in my neck. I get bad shoulder and neck pain too. There's not much you can do - but I do see that heat usually triggers it. That and stress. Nerve pain meds help sometimes.
Good luck

Oh yes I have severe shoulder/neck pain and spasms. Personally ice packs are my friends. I do take Valium when I need to and have had to have IV Solu-Medrol. But, to keep the pain and swelling down, I rely on my ice packs.

Hope this helps!

MSKC

Yes I understand what you are going through. My Right shoulder is hurting so bad and is sensitive to touch and I get pain on both sides of my shoulder blades and when I ask my daughter to rub me it hurts so bad but it helps but then the next day when I touch my shoulder blades they feel like they have been brusied. And I do also get pain that radiates from my back to my boob too and it feels like my ribs are tender. I take ibuprofin and it helps to a point but other than that I just ride it out it last for about 1 week and than I will be fine for a couple of weeks and then it comes back, it just horrible. And as for sleep I forgot what that was. I hope you get some relief and stay strong.

Take Care.

WOW!! I am just very overwhelmed by how my pains are no not alone!!! It feels so reassuring that there are people out there that feel the same aches and pains. I am sure this overwhelming feeling will go away in time...but I have just been silent for soooooo long that now its just pouring out of me!!!! Much love!!

I get pain in the same place in my left shoulder that seems to be related to tension ~ a friend w/ the thumbs from hell can pinpoint the knot & dig it out ~ hurts like hell to endure that but it's free & it works every time (for me).

Yes, I have been suffering with varring degrees of shoulder back pain every day now for well over a year now. It's been affecting both my arms now over the last few months. Spasms, pains, cramping, and weakness. I let my arms hang and I visualize the twenty pound weights that I feel attached to my arms pull down my shoulders. It works for me. Helps to eliminate some of the stiffness and pain. Give it a try, I hope it helps!

Huggers,
Summer

Oh yeah I have shoulder issues!

At first I thought it was because of all the accidents I got myself into when I was younger.... Rollerskating, football with the neighborhood boys, etc...... I was a tough active kid... a tomboy so to speak... I held my own! and paid the price a couple times! lol

So back in 06, before MS I tore a ligament in my left shoulder by opening a door.... A flippin door! I didn't do anything stupid, I opened a door and the wind took it and took my arm and shoulder with it.

When I first started having shoulder issues again, I noticed that it hurt in the same spot that it hurt back in 06. Thinking further about it.... All of the ligaments of my body that I have injured throughout my life, knee, ankle, wrist, shoulder... Have all pretty much started hurting again with MS for basically no good reason!

I am getting old before my time! lol

Have they ruled out tendinitis-I had severe pain in my elbow for months-I could not even pick up an empty cup. I had ultrasound and it showed swelling and a slight tear in my tendon.

After having cortisone injections that worked briefly I went and saw a sports medicine doctor.

On my visits he would draw blood from my left arm and then inject it back into my right sore elbow and within 4 months of going to him I no longer have any pain. He was saying that it could have taken 6 months to a year to heal-apparantly it is worse than a broken bone as tendons take longer to heal.

This was about 3 years ago and I still have no pain.

I just thought that I may mention it as sometimes we think something may be to do with our MS but is a completely different problem.

Maybe see if your doc can give you and ultrasound and refer you to someone in the sports medicine field.

Good luck and I hope you find a solution to your pain

mine is in the right shoulder...started out as a small tear in the roater cuff in 2005...tried cortosine shots...pt...everything...i dont know if it just never went away or if it is the ms now...but i am the same...hurts the worst at nite..and when i wake up in the moring...ouch...heat rub helps a bit...

luv
heather

Right now, I cannot lift my left arm, due to the shoulder pain. I don't know if it's MS related, or if I tore my rotator cuff-- again (long story)! Either way, I'm gonna have to wait until after I have the baby to find out. Meanwhile, it's just ice packs and Tylenol, for me :(

Pain in my left shoulder began in 1984. It is a sharp pain at times and radiates down to the hand as well. The shoulder itself upon rotation clicks a lot and it hurts all of the time. I have not been able to sleep on my left side for 25 years now because of this shoulder pain.

Finally when the MRI scan was invented, I had an MRI done of my left shoulder. Findings were;

1. complete tear rotator cuff
2. arthritis
3. joint abnormalities
4. ruptured tendon

No wonder it hurts huh? Too late for surgery by the time DX'd I was told.

I used to ride a bicycle to work and swim every day. It was around this time that the pain began.

I think it is related to the MS as the skin is numb at times and also I have times that it itches (the skin) like crazy.

I remember going to a shoulder specialist (one of probably 50 over the years) and he said that I was crazy and that it was not possible to have pain and numbness and itching all at once.

That sounds like MS doesn't it?

Why does it seem that many that have MS find out later on that they have rotator cuff tears? Weird!!