Comments on: Shoulder pain ball lawsuits due to cartilage damage

By: david

david — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 21:44:42 +0000

yes, i have experience post surgical deterioratioin of the cartilage after using the pain pump. i would like more information. thank you.

By: Richard

Richard — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:45:17 +0000

I had Left shoulder rotater cuff and impingement syndrome along with bone spurs, I have not ever healed from this surgery. I live in pain from the weight of my arm hanging on the shoulder joint.
I recently had a total shoulder evaluation for a VA Claim. The Doctor that Read the MRI’s said My shoulder looked like I was 70 years of age. I am only 42? I had the Pain Ball with that surgery.I also had my right done in the early 90’s with a much more involved sugery on that side That healed much better.I did not have a pain ball on that side.

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 22:18:51 +0000

I have been told that even though I have had progressive problems after the pain pump in my shoulder, that I don’t fit the description for this lawsuit. The pain pump was not placed in the shoulder joint but the ac joint. This is so frustrating as my dr feels the medication leaked into the joint and caused my new cartilage breakdown problems

By: Ivana

Ivana — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 22:16:56 +0000

I had shoulder suregery to remove a bone spur and repair a rotator cuff tear in May of this year. A week and a half after my surgery my muscles in my arm and my upper left chest are swollen and as my physical therapist describes it are experiencing somehing called, “Distonia”. They are frozen. I also have numbness in my upper arm to my incision. I was given the pain ball and no one seem to be able to explain these symptoms I am having. Has anyone experienced this? I cant say about the popping but the pain is extreme if I use my arm at all and I am unable to raise my arm at all from the shoulder due to the muscles being froze. I’m just searching for an answer and thought maybe someone out there may be able to point me in the right direction. And yes I did have the pain ball.

By: Ronda

Ronda — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 17:06:01 +0000

I had shoulder surgery in February, 2007 to remove bone spurs. In early 2008, I started experiencing sharp shoulder pain and stiffness again, so I made another appointment with my orthopedic surgeon and he told me that I had “frozen shoulder” and scar tissue. I had orthroscopic surgery in April, 2008 to remove the scar tissue and for shoulder manipulation, but I have gotten no relief. Before I had the scope, I asked the surgeon about the cracking and popping and he said it was the scar tissue. Well, the cracking and popping are still there, and maybe even worse. I am still in constant pain. I had the pain pump with my initial surgery, so when I saw the ad on TV about people experiencing health problems after having the pain pump, I was shocked. However, I feel some relief, too, to realize that this isn’t in my head and maybe there is some valid reason for all the pain.

By: Lisa

Lisa — Sat, 24 May 2008 05:18:04 +0000

I also had my first shoulder surgery in 2004 for a bone spur, I had the pain pump used then. I still continued having pain so I had another shoulder surgery in 2005 and it was found I had a labral tear and I had loose shoulder so they took and moved my shoulder socket over and anchored all of that into my bone. Again, I had the pain pump. I still had all kinds of problems with pain, stiffness, and grinding so I had another surgery so they could remove some scar tissue and to try and clean it up, but guess what they foud. That I know have grade 4 arthritis in my shoulder I hardly have any cartiledge left , but 2 years ago my last surgery there was no sign of any type of arthritis and all this deteroation. I am in constant pain and have to take vicodin and muscle relaxers. I also have had to miss days of work because of the condition will flare up some days at its worse. I sure hope something comes out of this, I am only 41 years old and now I have all these problems. Not to mention I will have to have a shoulder replacement somwhere down the line.I’ve already proceeded with this with these lawyers here and I hope their working hard a helping all of us who are in this position. good luck to all of you I hope you get something out of this and I don’t mean just money I hope that something can happen to where they will be able to fix as much as they can with your shoudler. I thought I was the only dealing with this, and I kinda felt like people at my work thought I was over reacting but this is the stuff they need to read about so the know Im not being a big ole puss about this. Good luck everyone and keep us all updated on your condition. Thanks again, Lisa

By: MDL petition for shoulder pain pump “class action” has been filed | Legal News & Updates Blog - Saiontz, Kirk & Miles

Thu, 22 May 2008 12:13:14 +0000

[...] Shoulder pain pump lawsuits have been filed throughout the United States on behalf of individuals who have developed a condition known as post-arthroscopic glenohumeral chondrolysis or PAGCL. The use of intra-articular pain pumps to deliver medication to the shoulder after a shoulder arthroscopy has been linked to the painful and debilitating condition where the cartilage in the shoulder joint progessively deteriorates. [...]

By: Katherine

Katherine — Tue, 13 May 2008 17:29:36 +0000

I,also have arthroscopicc surgery in 2004 for a rotary cuff tear and I had the pain pump to.THEN LESS THAN A YEAR Ihad another on the same shoulder and my shoulder isn’t any better I also experience popping,hurting lack of moment.Right now I’AM a nervous wreck.I ALSO HAVE SEVERE PAIN IN MY RIBS LEGS AND SHOULDERS.

By: Lisa Clark

Lisa Clark — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 12:20:43 +0000

I had shoulder surgery in 2004 for impingement syndrome by arthroscopic surgery and I had a pain pump. Then 1 year later I had another surgery for a biceps tear and my rotator cuff, once again I had another pain pump. For most of my time I have had a lot of discomfort and pain. The popping that I have is really scary too. This has been all on the same shoulder.