Left shoulder symptoms and conditions

I had a cortisone shot in my left shoulder this morning and don't have to tell you how painful the shot is and my shoulder is still extremely in pain now. had the high blood pressure and flushing, but added is my numb feeling arm all the way down to my figers tingling. I can grip light objects with my fingers and lift, but as soon as I start to lower them my arm flops straight down. It's now 12 hours later ans my fingers are feeling 50% better. My arm still falls, but at a lower level. I feel a little nausea. I have had shots before and never had a numbing reaction. (2) other areas. This is NOT from sleeping on it. I can't even lay on that side. Only saw one other with tingling fingers side effect. Mine is the full arm. Hope it goes away by tomorrow. Of course this is a weekend. Lucky I'm 62 and no kids to pick up. I am still worried.

I'm on Welchol for the second time. I've been having a pain in my left shoulder blade and in the left side of my neck, that seems to be related. I took it for a week, had the pain, then stopped it for two days and the pain went away. I'm trying it again (2nd day) and the pain is back in my shoulder blade. I'm still having the vivid dreams I had the last time I took the drug about a year ago, which cause me to sleep so deeply, it's hard to wake up. It also causes me to grind my teeth harder (sleeping so deep) that causes more jaw pain, and pain in the neck. The first time I took this drug was last year, along with Crestor. Talk about vivid dreaming! With the two drugs together I thought I was hallucinating. The first time I also had horrible headaches and sore throat. I just can't understand why they continue to tell us there are no side effects, when clearly there are. We have all experienced them. I wish there was an easy answer.

11 days ago I had indigestion and following that I had continuous heartburn. Doctor said it was gastritis and prescribed me gaviscon and omeprazole. I took one omeprazole pill in the morning after breakfast everyday for 5 days when I started to have the following symptoms: bad cramps/aches on left shoulder blades/neck, cramps/pins and needles in left arm, numbing of hands at times, nausea, tightening of the chest, sweaty cold hands and feet and lastly the most painful of all, numbing of my throat! The doctor checked my throat many times and said that it is not swollen yet I am positive there is something wrong with it. It is actually not sore when I swallow, just feels numb and cloudy? Sometimes I can't yawn fully because my throat closes up when I do and I cannot speak too much as I get breathless. I see that people here have started getting these symptoms via a long term use of this medication and not mere 5 days. Either way, I stopped taking it since today however symptoms are still present and stronger than ever tonight. I cannot sleep as I am too afraid to, as I have also been getting very vivid nightmares. I have started taking Ranitidine (twice a day)from today and I am a bit nervous about whether it is going to bring me nasty side effects too or not. I really just want the omeprazole's side effects to go away first but it seems as though it may actually take some time.... anyone had this numb throat which has caused difficulties in breathing? I also couldn't go to sleep before because when I would lie down my chest and throat felt like they were closing up even more and if I tried to sleep I would feel as though I couldn't breathe. Does Randitine cause nightmares!?

I'm 54, started taking lisinopril in jan 09. I took for about 3 months and noticed a decrease in libido. My pressure was pretty much in control, so I stopped taking it. I started again around 1st of Aug 09. Approx 3-4 weeks later, I began to experience severe pain in my left shoulder and arm. It began to move into my neck and back. I went in for an EKG to ensure I wasn't having a stroke. It was normal. I experience dizziness and headaches. I wake in the night and my 2 left fingers on the left hand are completely numb. The pain in my neck is now moving to the right side and some shoulder pain seems to be apparent. I noticed pain in other joints as well. I'm unable to work out at the gym as I usually do due to the pain my my left arm. I highly suspect these symptoms to be caused by lisinopril. I've been taking 20mg and was just switched to 20 mgm Hct. a week ago. X-Rays were taken of my neck and shoulder last week. Haven't' heard from the doctor as of yet. I was on Diovan before I lost my job and health benefits. As a vet, the VA put me on the Lisinopril. The Diovan worked fine for me, too expensive for us vets I guess. I am discontinuing the Lisinopril as of today 10/24/09. I feel like I imagine a ninety year old would feel with these aches and all. I havent' admitted it, but I believe I'm feeling mildly depressed as well. Let's see what a week of purging this from my system does. f. D.

I too have experienced chest pain/heart pains after the insertion of Mirena IUD. I had it inserted 2 weeks ago and one week ago is when I started experiencing the pains. I also have pain in my left shoulder and arm and my back. My doctor's Medical assistant said the Mirena is not causing the chest/heart pains and and on-call doctor said he didn't think it was likely either but I read all the comments on here and also feel that I know my own body so I called the Dr today to have it removed. First appointment they could get for me was this Thursday but I did not want to wait so I called back 3 times to see if my Dr had any cancellations and third time was a charm because I go in tomorrow to get it removed. I just hope that is in the right place and is easy to remove! I will update. Also I printed out 15 of these 33 pages on here and am taking them with me tomorrow. I also reported my side effects to the FDA.

I am so glad that I found this site. I had my Mirena put in February 2009 when my son was 10 months old. I wan't even looking for options for birth control. My doctor kept pushing it on me every appointment we had. I knew 2 people that had it and they loved it so I thought why not. The day I had it inserted I had major major cramps. But the doctor said I would experience cramping. Well the next day the cramps were so bad I was doubled over in pain. They felt just like contractions from active labor. After about a week they went away.
Then came the rest. Heart palpitations. Tossing and turning at night. Night sweats. My contraction cramps came more and more frequently. I started getting pimples and I never get pimples. Joint pain especially in my left shoulder. Mood swings like I've never had before. I don't even want to be around my son who is now 16 months old. Most days I feel like both him and my husband would be better off without me.
I went to my doctor in June and she told me they're was no way it could be from the Mirena. I then called the Mirena clinic. They told me the same thing and said not only would I have to go through my family doctor for a referral to have it removed, I would then have to wait 3 months for my appointment. Needless to say I felt backed into a corner.
I made another appointment with my doctor planning on telling her we were going to try and have another baby and hopefully we would get a better response.
Well in walked in a new doctor saying my old family doctor no longer works there! So I told the new doctor about my symptoms. She took out a pen and pad of paper and started writing everything down. She told me that it's rare for it to happen but few people have serious side effects. I felt like giving her this website.lol
Anyway, 4 days later I have an appointment on Oct 6th the have it removed!!! I am so happy. I will post an update.

After 18 months of 80mg daily simvastatin my right shoulder pain kept me awake at night. Soon after my left shoulder followed suit. GP immediately took me off the drug but after 2 weeks the pain is still excruciating at night and I have acute pain, weakness, lack of mobility when trying to raise either arm. I'm hoping physiotherapy will help. Would welcome other suggestions

i am a very healthy 55 year old who dances salsa 4-5 times a week, skis 4-5 mornings per week and works out at gym with wight 4-5 mornings. i developed a possible case of pneumonia and was prescribed avalox for 5 days (at $90.00 dollars no less) on the 3rd day i woke up ,and felt heel pain in my left heel and attributed it to0 a nerw pair of shoes i used for dancing. upon rubbing my heel and noticing NO callous or rubbed area i stood uo do experience sharp pain in my achilles tendon area. later on that same day i noticed my left shoulder area(rotator) seemed sore and did not make any connection since i use left arm to spin salsa partners. that same morning while drinking coffee at breakfast I read the sheets given to me by the HMO pharmacy to discover to my ALARM the side effect for people my age "possible torn achiiles tendon" as well as other tendon issues. alarmed i stopped to meds and called the PA who prescribed them.meantime i was on my way to Mexico and put on zithromax instead and upon coming home 10days later off of marvelox i still have extreme heel pain and discomfort in tendon areas . i finally went to see a doctor 3 days ago and upon telling him of these symptoms he told me there was "not a definite connection"....i proceed ed to almost start screaming and told him "not top talk to me like a stupid FU---ng 21 year old. i know my body and I HAVE BEEN VIOLATED AND when i confronted the head of pharmacy at the clinic she informed me thast on the computer Avelox was"blacklisted" for these side effects and it was posted on the system. when asked if this was permanent symptoms she did not know for sure and I informed them that I expected a call from their pharmD to discuss these symptoms,history,effects and possible remedies. i've been screwed and SOMEBODY will pay for abusing me!!
mark

I started taking Levaquin for a sinus infection, a 10 day dose. I started noticing after a few days that I was irritable,depressed, aching and swelling from my wrist up to my elbow. After finishing my dose, the swelling went down. I am still having the pain. I have pain in my left shoulder, the cap of my shoulder. I have trouble sleeping because the pain gets extreme. I have pain in my right leg. The pain is on the back, the lower part--the achille tendon. I have trouble walking at times. The pain can be mild to severe at times. I even have the pain at night in bed. I didn't know what was wrong with me until a friend told me that these are some of the side effects of the medicine. If I had known, I would have never taken it. I feel like it is a struggle trying to get ready to go to work. I have yelled out loud at work because it would be so severe.

I have been taking Eltroxin for over 8 years due to treatment for Hodgkins Disease (cancer of the Lymph nodes, glands) the side effects I have noticed are headaches, blurred vision, lack of energy, sore joints especially knees, weight fluctuations, stomach cramps, heart rhythm increase, numbness in my left shoulder & arm and sometimes my little finger on my left hand is completely numb, sleep irregularity, night sweats. I cant seem to find any specialist who will listen to me. I have stopped taking them from time to time and most of the symptoms disappear but my metabolism slows down so much that I have no alternative but to resume taking them.

Hey Girls! Im 24 years old. i had my first child in June 08.i weighed 162 the day i had him.he was only 8lbs.. july08 i had the Mirena put in. everything went fine. It didn't hurt me. i had regular bleeding afterwords about3-4 days. i loved it! BUT...sept.08 i got PYCHO. thought it was PPD or just life changes. me and my hubby never fight. i have a perfect life as a stay at home mommy, bc he makes good money, so nothing to really complain about!! but i just start fights over anything now. its affecting a lot of relationships in my life.i have been experiencing things like ::: pelvic pain(spasums), headaches,cant sleep,nervousness to where i cant even go out in public,acne,anxiety,very depressed,angry,crying a lot,frustrated with everyone (even my poor baby), yelling a lot,dizziness,my left shoulder kills me, i am down to 110 lbs, nausea about 3 times a week in the mornings. I have even considered counseling or depression pills to help me. then just this July, having this Mirena for a year. i just stopped my period. i have taken 4 pregnancy tests...all negative!! so i got on here and now i know why i have been feeling so HORRIBLE! part of me is relieved now knowing that this has to be the problem. i have Crohns Disease and cant take Birth Control Pills.i wont take the shot or patch. i am actually considering my hubby to get snipped....or does someone know something else that is good to take.

I was prescribed 500 mg Levaquin for 10 days, after the third day I started having pain in my lower back and left shoulder. The pain got much worse and I knew there was something wrong, I googled levaquin and realized it was the drug causing my pain I discontinued the drug immediately (had 5 more pills remaining) and went to my doctor, he said he "doubts" its the levaquin...and that I should continue taking it! I insisted he gives me a different drug. He is usually very nice and always give me and my family free samples (we don't have insurance) I am really surprised that he would give me a drug like this without warning me of the side effects and even worse he refuses to acknowledge that levaquin is the cause of my pain..

I took a 8 day regiment of 750 mg for pneumonia. I started developing joint pain in my right thumb on day 5 and then my left shoulder on day 6 by day 9 I was unable to raise my left arm over my head. It is now in both hands. I am so stiff in morning I cant turn a door knob with out lots of pain and forget trying to open the dishwasher where you have to squeeze the lever to open the door. In the shower I use my right hand to raise my left arm ober head so the warm water can run on my shoulder blade. warm water also helps relieve the pain. I am hoping this is just a temporary setback cause I never had symptoms like this before. 57 yo male

I started taking Januvia in August 2008. I haven't slept throught the night since. I have the pain in my left shoulder with night sweats. No sex drive, my husband of less then 4 years is really happy about this(yeah right)! I on the other hand have developed constant movements of my abdomen and horrible constipation. The spasms or jerking movements start when I go to bed and usually last for hours. I almost jerk myself out of the bed, it's that severe. I now think this is permanent. My finger joints hurt, shake and fingers tap on their own. These things were never present before the use of Januvia. And I am the one who requested it, not my doctor. So I can't blame him. After reading all of the side effects from others, I am convinced that the Januvia is the culprit. I have depression and now it is the worse that it has ever been.
S. M.

After taking a 500mg Niaspan last night 1/2 hour after taking it I had this reaction: Hot flush in my upper body, face,neck and arms.
Happened out of the blue. got scared.
Went to the bathroom and washed my face with cold water.
Came over to the iMac (computer) Googled Niaspan allergic reactions, found this site and was mentally relieved to note that this was a common side effect of this drug.
Consumed 10 oz of water calmed down and fell better within 6 or 7 minutes.
While some people curse the amount of info on the net I am not one of them.
I am really glad that people share info like I am doing.
I suggest though if any of the side effects are worse then mine yo go to the ER and if you cant hit 911.

I have been taking 40mg lipitor for over 9 years now.

I have had back issues since an injury to one disc (L4?), and had microdiscectomy in 2001? Took about two years to actually get close to normal.

The last few years, I have had multiple issues with shoulder pain, wrist pain, elbow pain, lower back pain, Upper rump muscle pain , and now both hips are killing me (the shoulder, upper rump muscles and hips are by far the worst). And I am now so weak in my lower back muscles, that it feels like I will (and do) pull out my back.

I have seen NO many doctors I can't even name them all. I have had operations, multiple injections (cortisone) taken pain meds, etc. Nothing has helped and in the last year and a half, I have gotten steadily worse. To the point where I can't really do much of any activity. Sleeping at night is painful. Can't lie on left shoulder, and can't lie on either hip for more than a few minutes. If I fall asleep on my side, the pain wakes me up. When I try to walk, 80% of the time, I end up with a pain in my upper right rump (sacroiliac area), that I MUST sit down to get the intense pain to go away, which it does. But comes right back when I walk again.

I have had x-rays, MRIs etc, and never reveals all that much. Disc issues, yes. NOt much else.

Recently, I have begun to get a nasty clicking (catching) on my left jaw (joint?). Not really painful, but something definitely wrong. My dentist sent me to his Chiro. I went and liked him right away. I had gone to another chiro for years and I believe in them. But this one is the best I have seen.

Anyway, one of the FIRST things he suggested, was that it was POSSIBLE that the Lipitor is causing all of my problems. Put me on COQ10, and doing multiple adjustments and treatments. I will be seeing my regular doctor 5/26, and my chiro wants me to see if he will take me off lipitor and put me on Niaspan instead.

I guess my question is: Can Lipitor be fine with me for so long, and then in such a short period of time, turn me into a compete wreck from the pain and wasting away of my body/muscles? I've told doctors for over a year now that there is SOME connection as to all these issues and pain. One Doctor, of course, gave me the "you are getting old" bull. Yes, I am 56 yrs old. But I understand the process of getting old, vs the complete failing of ones body.

Also, IF it is the Lipitor, can it possible all go away? Or should I expect some damage forever?

One more thing, the last ortho I went to the other day for a second opinion, wants me to do a EMG, to see if there is muscle damage. I was not planning on doing it, but wonder now, should I? He was not doing it because of lipitor, as he never even talked about that to me. I had shoulder operation and have not had the results I feel I should have had.

After 7 doses of Welchol I could not swallow, had severe heartburn and pressure in my chest, fatigue, and shortness of breath upon ANY exertion worsening pain in my left shoulder and pain in my left foot I felt that I was having a massive heart attack. I will never take this drug again and I can only pray that these symptoms go away, which so far they have not (last does was yesterday morning)

I have coronary atery disease, have had one drug coated stent in my main atery and am on plavix and asprin. Had a shot of cortisone into my left shoulder yesterday (without lidocaine); pain was immense and was a shock
to my system; Immediately afterwards, I became pale, faint, and broke out
in sweat. Had to lay down on an exam table to keep from passing out. After a few minutes of lying still and being fanned by a nurse, I regained composure to leave. For the remainder of the day, my skin was pale grey, and I generally did not feel well. It was not until later that night, after two our three hours of rest, did i recover. From that point on, I had the typical restless night with limited sleep, and face began to turn red. I have never had a reaction to cortisone, and don't know if that is what occurred, but I would be curious if anyone else has had this same side affect.

I am a 56 year old female & have been on toprol for 7 or 8 years. I was a small business owner & under a lot of stress. I had couple of times where my heart would race & pound & I felt really strange. I went to the ER where they of course checked my blood pressure. It was a little high, but I was stressed out! After the second time this happened they put me on 50mg of toprol. I have since weaned myself down to 25 mg. I think I was having a panic attack, which I had never had before. I regret the day I ever started taking this poison. I have had such shortness of breath that I can hardly walk to my mailbox & back. I feel like I can never get enough air in my lungs. I feel a tightness in my chest all the time, sometimes my heart feels like it is beating abnormally. I am always aware of my heart beat which I never was before this med. I have gained about 20 to 30 lbs, which is very hard to lose when you feel like you are dying if you exercise. I have pain in my left shoulder, which I don't know if it is from the med or not. I do not sleep well at night & am so tired all the time it is hard to get through the day. I just overall feel like crap! It seems doctors are no help they just want to try you on other meds, I have tried that too. They are all poison I felt even worse on some of the others. I don't want to go through the rest of my life like this. Has anyone successfully gotten off this stuff? I would love to hear from you. Thanks, K. L.

I am generally classed as an active, happy and positive person, loving life.... but the last 4 months have been a blinking nightmare....
It seems we all pretty much have the same symptoms, horrid shoulder pain, muscle soreness, spasms, feet and generally feeling like "what the??" is where we are all at..horrid thoughts of MS? Motor Neurons, Parkinsons, etc. all sorts of possible sinister problems.
I too have stopped taking Lipitor only a week ago (and I only started back in October 2008 after "arguing with my doctor for many years not wanting to take it...and i didn't even know about the horror side effects, i just thought it was totally unnatural to strip the body of something almost totally,).. within 2 months I started showing signs of chronic neck C5/6/7 and left shoulder. Maybe I had injured myself once before and suffered pinched nerves, but the pain eventually went, but this is not normal or should I say usual...... I have constant buzzing of left thumb/forefinger and hand and my right leg. NEVER NEVER have I suffered from this type of symptom before in my entire 50 years... Even some days when the spasms are at their worst I get an itchy nose and tingling lips. The scariest symptom of a white flash in my left eye convinced me...So fed up with it and after stumbling on all the negative comments and side effects with this drug I made to decision to take control of my own life. It is too uncanny....As I said, it's only a week now free of Lipitor, I have increased my Vitamin C intake and making sure I take a Mega Multivitamin daily too. There is some interesting reading in various websites of Vitamin C vs Statins...

BUT it would really be nice to read any comments of people who have recovered from these rotten symptoms and what sort of time frame it took to get over them. Is there a light at the end of the tunnel for us all. Some indication of Recovery period is probably our greatest "want to know"... and also...when will i be able to enjoy cycling again. Thank you to everyone for the input and may our strength be returned, not only physically but spiritually as well. :-)

I would just like to say that, even though I just started it, I love Microgestin(generic Loestrin). I'm finishing my first week of pills and things are already getting better. I had been on the shot for my 9 months when I couldn't take it anymore. In the week that I've started taking it, my depression has seemed to melt away. While on the shot I suffered from severe depression and mood swings. Also, I am no longer spotting after having spotted for almost the entire 3 months I had had my last shot. The only thing I noticed was that I had a little more discharge than I normally do and that my appetite may have gone up a little more..although I am trying to gain weight. Also I had some pain in my left shoulder and left leg? I don't know if it was related to the pill though. Just so you know, the shot makes you eat like a pig. I gained almost 15 pounds over the course of 9 months. I started out 5'7 105. I'm now 5'7 118. The shot also gives you hot flashes. Terrible terrible hot flashes.

I have been fighting a sinus infection for over two years now. Two surgeries for my sinuses so far, and every time I see the Doctor, I get the Levaquin every time, 750MG for 14 days. I have another sinus surgery in another state, with a specialist, I hope, better than my last ENT. But my left shoulder froze up and my right one is trying to freeze up. I am headed in Friday to get the Ortho to put me to sleep and twist my arm around and shoot it with cortizone, and I am hoping my shoulder will be ok then in another week, I head out to get another sinus operation. I was a very active, healthy mid 40's female. Now I can't seem to function. But I just stumbled onto this sight, and I am sure I am going to have to take another anti biotic. Any suggestions on which one? I will never take this Levaquin again. This is all to coincidental for all of us to have similar side effects. I had very bad headaches as well, but blamed the sinuses.

Update from A., Well it's been since Monday that I was finished with a 10 day course. I'm still having terrible knee pain, and bad burning in my left shoulder! I'm drinking a bunch of water.....When I try to get up from a seated position it's like my legs have a hard time straightening out!

I DID report it to the fda.gov/medwatch.

When I see my Dr. next week, I'm gonna let her know just how bad this messed me up.....as I've got Fibromyalgia and I'm already pretty MESSED up to begin with!

I 'm in the process of filing for disability.....that's how messed up I am! I'm also going to have my dr. run the Creatine Kinase blood test....any others I should ask for???? If you know PLEASE reply to me, Thanks in advance!

During my 6 months on Warfarin (Coumidin) I experienced tremendous lethargy and short term memory loss. No issues with other commonly reported symptoms of hair loss, heavy legs,…
I am a 49 year old male. In January 2008 I was diagnosed with DVT's in my right lung. Interestingly I experienced 100% of the pain on my left side though the DVT’s were on the right. The onset of symptoms was a pain in my chest like I pulled a muscle lifting something. The pain progressed from "notable" to progressively uncomfortable, where I was restless in bed to the point of not sleeping. On the 3rd day after fitful sleeping and progressively more painful breathing, I made a doctor's appointment for that afternoon. By the time I got to the Dr. I was sure I had made the right decision (I am male and avoid these things).
My primary care did an EKG to rule out a heart attack which the symptoms were identical to; sharp pain in chest toward left shoulder and arm, trouble breathing. I was sent for an X-ray and was very uncomfortable laying still on the Xray bed as the pain as I inhaled had gotten sharper. I went home and resumed office work but soon was in extreme pain with each breath. So much pain that I could not lay or sit, but collapsed to my knees where I stayed for 20 minutes until I could move again. I called the doctor's office and was advised to go directly to the ER. Duh. The ER again ran an EKG and ruled out cardiac issues.
Three ER Attendings pondered my condition for an hour or so and then began asking as series of questions and at the 3rd question – had I flown any long flights recently? Yes, several transatlantic – at which I saw their glances and was whisked off to a CAT scan which confirmed DVT’s. I was put on morphine and some IV’s and admitted for 5 days. I started Lovenox shots and by the 4th day was feeling better.
Blood tests did not revel any genetic disposition (factor V) for clots and no family history so it was recorded as “Coach Class Syndrome”. I was put on Warfarin for (5mg/day) for 6 months. I was able to keep relatively good INR’s. I came off Warfarin (12 August 2008). I will have to take Lovenox shots before long flights. I am happy to come off the Warfarin as I experienced tremendous lethargy and short term memory loss. No issues and I have been off coumadim for 6 months now. Glad to have that behind me… hopefully.

February 24,2009
I am a 66 year old woman in good physical condition(that is until I took Levaquin) I took it in December 2008 and it is over two months later and
i am still suffering from extreme jount and muscle pain especially in my left
shoulder and left knee. I took it for twelve days for a sinus infection and
on the eighth day woke up with great swelling lumps on the back of both knees. Initially thought it was just old age and arthritis. Soon all the joints in my body begin to ache and swell causing severe constriction of movement. Could hardly manipulate the stairs in our house. I quit taking the meds as I had never experienced anything like that before and knew it was the Levaquin. I can only hope that the damage is not permanent but am afraid it might be. I can't sleep on my left side for the pain and it never goes away. Left knee is still swollen and sore. Elbow joints are also painful and hands are sore. I know the medical profession will not acknowledge this so I didn't even tell the Dr. This drug is dangerous
and should be taken off the market. L. H., Blanchard, Ok.