I have had shoulder pain for about a year now; palliative care levels of morphine not holding the pain at first, steroid injection eased it for 3 weeks, then back again.
physio thought it could be trapped c5/6 nerve. It went away after a few months but has come back intermittently.
xray-normal.
Then a weird swelling which if you pressed down, took 10 minutes to get rid of finger dents in it.
Had MRI today, which brings me to my question.
It was for shoulder & neck. The technicians did neck first, then shoulder. After one shoulder image, they stopped and said they were going to focus on more images of the neck and do some more, so they did that. Then they stopped after awhile to go and get a doctor to ask them if they could finish. The doctor came and told them to take more images. So another load of images of the neck were done.
I asked after about this and they said they didn't need to do the shoulder as the problems where located around the neck. But didn't say anything else other than I need to wait 7-10 days for the doctor to go through the report with mi.
Is that a normal mri experience? I can't lie, I'm terrified. Am 37 years old and a single parent, also autistic so I struggle with uncertainty probably more than non autistic people and I'm worried sick.
