Originally Posted by
SWR-52
Hello. Here's my situation:
I'm a 25 year old male. I've been experiencing some persistent shoulder pain for the last 5 months or so that has steadily increased to the point where I have a difficult time falling asleep at night, and I can no longer press/bench without lots of pain.
There is a visible protrusion on top of my shoulder (my acromion, I think) that I've been told by an orthopedic surgeon is an arthritic bone spur (he also says I have a "minor" tear in my labrum).
After a steroid shot in my shoulder did nothing to help, the options he gave me were, a) "Take it easy and see if the pain subsides"; i.e. stop pressing/benching for an indefinite period (not an option), or b) have him arthroscopically shave down 5-7mm of the bone spur, and if he thinks the tear is bad enough when he's in there, he'll repair that too.
I'm hoping someone here who has dealt with something similar can red pill me. What should I expect recovery to be like? Doc said it would 3 to 5 months before he'd "let me" lift weights, which immediately made me question whether I should let him operate on me. I guess I'd just like to know what I should expect in terms of results and recovery with a surgery like this.
I believe I'm leaning toward getting the surgery, because as far as surgery goes, it seems relatively low-risk and minimally invasive. But I'm a 25 year old who's never had surgery, so I don't know anything.