Hi, I really need some advise.
My mother has constant pain in the left shoulder blade, left arm, and neck. The pain is so intense that she has been in bed for six days now (which is causing her more pain in other parts of her back and neck) and has to struggle to find a position that will take some of the pain off (no position ever takes it away completely). She also said that her arm has some numbness, especially her fingertips. She's already been checked for stroke and heartattack so it's not supposed to be those.
All of this started when she simply got up one morning and stretched. She was feeling some pain throughout the week before it (but not as bad) and the first doctor said it was leading up to this point. However, this is going on for so long and there is no improvement. The flexeril, vicoden, and percocet (which replaced the vicoden of course) is not helping at all. Doctors are acting like it's nothing and not advising anything other than taking meds and applying ice (the er doctor didn't even come back to talk to her with the x-rays or to say anything else!). Now, we can only think of seeing a doctor again, but she can't even be upright long enough for the trip. Talk about being in a bind!
I don't know if this is anything serious or if it's something so simple because no one ever explains anything! Please help us out (because doctors seem useless right now).