I'm very new to this Frozen Shoulder

Kelly -- Sorry you are going through this! I had surgery in April and have to undergo a second surgery as the first one did not do the job completely. Ugh!!

Whatever you do...KEEP THAT SHOULDER MOVING!! I was told to get rid of the sling the day after surgery - which I did. The more you keep it immoblie, the harder it will be for you.

I still can't get comfortable in bed most of the time. But pillows under your arm to prop it up definitely help! Ice helps too. Since you don't have any pain meds, maybe some Tylenol PM's or some other kind of PM medication? All I have are muscle relaxers which don't help much but better than nothing....

No, do not keep your arm in the sling. You have to move it (gently) but keep move it, to regain movement. It's a slow and long-term process, but eventually you get better. It took me 2 years and Physical therapy (I said not to cirgury) but you will get better

Hi Kelley

I had an orthroscopic surgery a week ago for shoulder debridement and subacromial decompression.  During surgery that's when they discovered I had FS too.  My advice is to call your ortho right away.  If you had a condition other than FS - maybe that's the reason why you need to keep in on a sling.  Otherwise if it's only FS - then I agree with the others that you need to keep it moving and start physical therapy soon.  But please check with your dr.  And take over the counter pain meds such as Ibuprofen.   Btw - check out YouTube also if you're interested in some exercises.  I recommend the pendulum to start with but of course make sure the Dr okays you to start exercises.  Goodluck!  I know the pain too well. 

Keep the arm in sling when standing like 2 hours then remove sling the after some time hour or so keep in sling idea is to give rest arm and make it comfortable or depending on sling buy the door polley rope do the exercise with it till pain is managabale for sleeping put two pillows and next to it put two more pillows keep gape in pillows that much that when lye down you can rest your arm between pillows cavity and put the 5th pillow between your upper legs while lying on bed left or right side  i am doing this along with the before sleep give good massage of warm mastard seed oil and olive oil and black seed oil mixed I hope you get better any ?can ask me

Hi Kelly,

What we do know is that you don't have a frozen shoulder, not at least

ter 7 days of pain. It takes weeks or even months for a FS to get this bad.

Put your sling back on, with this amount of pain in a short time it's rest not movement and it won't stiffen up. Go and see your Doc or emergancy and tell them you have a subacromial acute bursitis which could be infected. Google this: it may sound overkill but it will get there attention. You perhaps need a needle in it to suck out the bad stuff or a needle to put in some good stuff. Feel if the skin around the joint is warmer.

I played rugby years ago and can remember players having similar omplaints.