Thanks @fossyant. My sis-in-law had this op and seemed not to suffer too much - she said the same about still "feeling it was there" after a year or so. My prep nurse told me I shouldn't push it in the first 4 weeks at least as that would mean it would just take longer to get sorted, but she did say I needed to keep it moving and do the physio. My twin has just had a shoulder op too (different one) so I know the sense of that.
Thanks cosmic, I know your situation is much worse! Hope all is ok with you.
There are so many things with shoulders - also it is very common for women in middle life to have shoulder issues (3/4 of frozen shoulders are on women) so if this description fits... (I don't know your age!). If you go to your doc, make sure he refers you to an upper-arm specialist orthopaedic surgeon, not just a random orthopaedic one. Turns out the guy I was going to was a lower-limb specialist who sometimes does shoulders, and doesn't do keyhole on shoulders, so after taking his (less than good, it turns out) advice for nearly a year I have swapped onto someone who does keyhole. Recovery is a lot quicker with keyhole. (Should add that he's great a lower limbs, he did Mr G's achilles and my Dad's hip replacement).
Thanks TMN. No cough, just a really horrible tonsillitis-like sore throat and feeling drained. A few sneezes but nothing developed along those lines so I am hoping we can go ahead with the GA tomorrow.
I too am a sceptic re chiro, but a slightly mad friend of mine has had frozen shoulder problems which she has deal with using a chiropracter. From her descriptions, he was using quite painful levels of manipulation to keep the shoulder from freezing/unfreeze any areas already frozen. Since one of the operations they offer for frozen shoulder is essentially this under anaesthetic, I'm not surprised it has worked for her.
My physio is a sports specialist, he was brilliant will my shoulder even though it ultimately didn't solve the issue. Deffo worth asking yours.I'll just have to get the physio interested enough to have a look on Monday...although in half an hour she's got her work cut out with my knees/ankles/feet/non existent core
She's a cycling specialist hence seeing her, although if I do need dedicated physio, I'll probably find someone locally. An old physio is a tennis coach so should be good with shoulders, although his attempts to fix my tennis elbow were unsuccessful hence the surgery...not that it was caused by tennis, neither playing nor watching
