Hi Dr D.....thanks for your response!

Yes the intolerable pain is new - started maybe 2 months following my previous surgery!

I am 36!

Initially I first felt pain about 5 years ago, I was given a steroid injection which sorted it and then I would say about 2 years ago I started to get pain again, which was classic of supraspinatus tendonitis, I had 2 further steroid injections which were unsuccesful, so they sent me for my first Wikipedia reference-linkMRI which showed nothing other than supraspinatus tendonitis - so they referred me to have a SAD procedure!

Following the initial recovery period I was pain free and then 2-3 months later is when this intolerable pain that I have now began. The difference being that the pain was now coming from the top of my shoulder as opposed to the arc of my shoulder!

I struggle to carry a small handbag at times - feeling intense pain and like my shoulder is going to come out of its joint!

I did have a very bad fall downstairs a couple of years ago and my elbow took the brunt of the force of the fall which Im sure hasnt helped in all this!


Does this help to give you a better picture/understanding???

Is it possible to predict the likley outcome/prognosis of all this??

Jose.