Can someone please tell me why I'm hurting more since I went to the doctor lol. Then to top it off he thinks the big problem is coming from my neck and not inside the shoulder. I even have to go to physical therapy after I finish the meds.... Dang I hate getting old some times
Missed that post. The reason the doctor may think it is coming from your neck is because of the particular nerve route that is hurting. Usually, if you have pain in only the spot you injured, that is all it is. If the pain is in your wrist, but feels like it is coming from your shoulder, the the pain is being "referred" along the nerve route. An EMG can determine what is going on. This is why you may be hurting more.
I am not a doctor, obviosly, but I have been dealing with my own Spinal Cord injuries for 30 years now, I have had 6 major Spinal Cord related surgeries, and have had to educate myself that when my index finger is frozen, and the air passing over it hurts, the pain source is my neck, and by getting the pressure off my neck, but either laying down, or going onto my inversion table, the pain in the finger then subsides, the neurapathy in the index finger may take a while to heal, but the cause of it, unfortunately for me, is the scar tissue damage on the nerve roots coming out of my neck. So it never goes away. If you did have a problem inyour neck, you really should go to a Neurologist and have it checked out. Nerves do not heal well and damage is usually a one way trip.
My personal opinion, from my personal experience, is that Chripractic medicine is science quackery. Avoid Chiropractors, don't let anyone "crack" or "adjust" your neck. The fine capillaries and other little things in there can be damaged and a deep adjustment can paralyze your arm, or kill you. An EMG or better yet, an MRI scan, will tell you instantly if there is damage to your neck. The fact that your doctor thought the pain is referred is telling. I would go to a Neurologist and find out what is really going on. If you pinch the never route, because of a herniated disc, or just because you over extended the range of motion in your fall that caused that nerve route to be injured, the pain will not be felt in your neck, but in you shoulder,elbow, hands, wrist fingers, any or all of these places. By the time the pain starts hurting in your neck, you will be in deep "doo doo". You may just need a really good anti inflammatory, but you need a Neurologist to find out, your G.P. is not trained to do that, he should refer you to a Neurologist, which in a way, he did, by saying he thought the pain was coming from your neck!