@kandcsmom, I mentioned about MRI but my doctor did not want to prescribe, she does not feel it is necessary at this time.
@Jonri, I just had a complete blood work done, everything looks good. My doctor did mention the fact that as we age, sometimes a little wrong movement can cause injury to the shoulder, rotator cuff, and if we don’t exercise, muscles got stiff and injuries are more common.
Yes, because that’s the age that our estrogen starts to decrease as we go through menopause. In Japan, frozen shoulder is the most common complaint of menopause.
I agree with Hunt; I think the PT is stepping over his bounds in giving medical advice about stuff he is not trained in. What if you started taking one of those supplements and had a bad reaction?
My first experience with frozen shoulder came (coincidentally) right after a flu shot. It was convenient to be able to show exactly where the pain originated.
I had frozen shoulder caused by bursitis, tendinitis, and the resulting disuse.
In reality, it probably resulted from picking up a sleeping child from the car and carrying her upstairs once too often.
It hurt like the devil. Cortisone did nothing, and I swear made it worse.
6 months of PT brought back range of motion in that arm. (I think i started with about 5% range of motion and ended at 90%+). A year or so later brought me frozen shoulder on the other arm. More PT. I still have occasional issues, but resolve them myself with exercises and stretches.
The whole thing about what a PT says to do is exacerbated by the change from a MPT to a DPT.
My second case of frozen shoulder was this summer because I didn’t pull the lawn mower cord correctly…I really pulled/hurt my arm shoulder muscle then babied it too long. Ugh. You would think I would have learned the first time I had frozen shoulder to keep moving .While my shoulder is fine now I refuse to start the mower myself anymore. Man I feel old. 
I like how zeebamom described it: “it hurt like the devil”, I wouldn’t go that far, but yes it does hurt, especially when I try to get dressed or doing the stretching exercise, though usually feel better after the exercise. And if I happen to be awake during the night, the pain will keep me from falling back to sleep.
It also bugs me now that I cannot do much around the house because of my condition.
@MichiganGeorgia, I am so with you!!! I feel old! Even though I am still pretty good with tolerance of pain, but never like when I was younger. When I was in labor with my 1st child (in my early 30’s), water broke, was on Pitocin for 9 hours, intense contractions all along, and having to “push” for over 3 1/2 hours before kid was born, refused epidural, omg, I thought I was going to die. Now those 9 hours were intensive pain, like zeebamom said, it hurt like the devil…
LOL. My mom had a frozen shoulder. She said, and I agreed , that the pain was worse than childbirth. She at least had drugs, my 2 were natural.
Rolling onto my side at night would wake me up. Often it would pinch so I’d have pins and needles and be totally unable to move my arm.
I don’t wish such things on even mortal enemies.
Labor pain lasted 9 hours, this frozen shoulder business will likely last for weeks and hopefully NOT months and months, so in comparison, yeah, childbirth is nothing!
I have to sleep on my right side, a couple of times I rolled over to my left not knowing, pain woke me up! Once in a while during the day, a slight movement will send shooting pain down my biceps, but usually lasts a few seconds. About a couple of weeks ago, I was awake in the middle of one night, happened to just casually lift my left arm and put it on my stomach (trying to get a good sleeping position), for whatever reasons, I had such sharp pain I screamed and ended up in tears. I do not know how to describe that pain, but it was bad!
I had to sleep on my back when I had frozen shoulder because of the roll over problem.Try using a pillow to lay your arm on so that propped up a little and is comfortable. that’s the only way i could sleep at night.
I also have frozen shoulder. Had the cortisone shot, had pt and exercises with the chiropractor. Part of my problem is how I sleep on my side. I’m a reacher up over my head when I sleep, I don’t know how to stop it beyond tying myself up in a straight jacket.
@eyemamom, I ended up using a large safety pin to pin my nightgown or pajama top sleeve to the waist when I couldn’t stop moving my arm over my head and under my pillow. Until I did that, I’d wake up several times each night in excruciating pain. I first tried wearing an old sling but either my arm slipped out or I managed to remove it without really waking. I can’t do cortisone or take Ibuprofen, and I was desperate to find some way to stop taking Rx pain meds. It was a bit awkward at first but I got used to it.
I got frozen shoulder a couple of weeks after a flu shot, but it was in the other shoulder. Obviously it was unrelated.
Are you sure about that? Maybe you were babying the arm you got the flu shot in and used the other one too much?
Just kidding. Frozen shoulder is a big pain.
Nah, just shoveled too much snow. At first I thought I’d strained my rotator cuff but after it got worse and worse was diagnosed with frozen shoulder. It was a major pain.