All Pain, No Gain

My shoulder has gotten worse, so much so that I can barely sleep. My physical therapists had portrayed my shoulder problem as tendonitis, perhaps brought about by bad posture or whatever, and that I needed to keep working the muscles in order to avoid frozen shoulder. But my husband watched some videos on YouTube about frozen shoulder that suggested an alternative explanation. According to those videos–made by doctors–I am probably developing frozen shoulder and have been all along and likely for no reason other than that I’m a woman between 40 and 65. Though the doctors didn’t come right out and say it, the implication was that frozen shoulder is a gift from that old bitch Menopause. (And isn’t that just lovely.) Frozen shoulder often takes a long time to resolve itself, and I could have another 20+ months of pain to look forward to, though supposedly the “frozen” stage hurts less than the “freezing” stage. Anyway, I have an appointment to see an orthopedist next week, and perhaps I will learn more then.