Should I have surgery on my shoulder?

Well, I have never performed a surgery, so my answer comes from looking on Google. I believe that you should have it done immediately. Actually, Google gives some pretty thorough details of things like this so if you have a good friend with a steady hand, he or she could probably do it in your home and save you a lot of money.

If you are concerned about the surgery you should talk to the surgeon who’s going to do it about your concerns. If in doubt you could get a second opinion. My two cents with the shoulder open the surgeon will be able to see exactly what is going on and may be able to repair it. Medical imaging is not perfect and it can be difficult to determine exactly what is going on and often surgery is the only way to go.

Give Yahoo a shot then.

This question would be best answered by your doctor. If you still aren’t sure, get a second opinion.

Scamp,
I thought of that too, but figured that since the person asking the question apparently felt to bypass medical advice, I would do the best I could to give an answer. I do have family that are doctors and people figure I know medical questions anyway as they ask me all the time. They figure I must have learned through some form of osmosis about medicine.

trainerboy I work in a doctor’s office, and I get the same thing. Sometimes I am able to point people to the right type of doctor with enough information, ie: MRI reports, etc. But since neither you or I are actually doctors, and the doctor I work for is not in this field, I think the asker would do better asking a specialist. I recently had surgery myself and the recovery is not going as welll as I had hoped. I have spoken with my employer about it, but since it is out of scope for him, the best he can do is help me form questions to ask my surgeon.

I wouldn’t want the asker to have or not have surgery based on asking an unqualified person on the internet, hence the suggestion to ask a specialist.

I agree completely. I wondered if the question was really a joke since not even a doctor would give an answer over the internet other than to see a specialist.

Well maybe not. He or she could be asking for opinions from someone who may have had a similar injury. I’ve done that while considering my surgery to see what the pros and cons might be. But I ultimately went with what my doctor advised, which is what I feel the asker should do. It is helpful to ask other people for their opinions because if nothing else, it will help the asker know what kind of questions to ask their doctor.