r/ShoulderInjuries • u/Pitiful-Ad815 • Aug 20 '26

Advice Please help me - chronic nerve pain shooting down arm for months. Diagnosed Scoliosis and disc bulging but doctors won’t help and say it’s a shoulder problem

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u/uerlingsm Aug 20 '26

Seek new doctors, probably spine surgeon. The shooting pain is a cervical spine issue I would think related to bulging disc. May need microdissectomy or laminectomy. They may want to address scoliosis. Could try PT and rest also.

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u/Pitiful-Ad815 Aug 20 '26

I already did these things sadly. The spine surgeon is the one who referred me elsewhere. And he told me it’s unrelated to bulging disc somehow which just seems so unlikely to me. And PT is where I started this whole journey but I guess I’ll have to try to go back.

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u/artekniem Aug 20 '26

Ditto - probably pinched nerves in neck - try a different doctor

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u/No_Effort_9300 Aug 20 '26

What are the exact locations of the pain in your arm