So I went to see the traumatologist today about The Shoulder and, after a few questions, the doc went straight to giving me a cortisone injection, which was totally fine by me. I did tell her that when they gave me the same thing for my knee last year nothing happened and she looked at me calmly and said “that doesn’t mean that this won’t help you now”. And I guess so? I mean, the other one was for pretty much bone-on-bone knee pain (with a torn meniscus thrown in), and this is apparently a tendon problem.

Subscapularis tendinosis. Chronic enthesopathy of the subscapularis, subacromial-subdeltoid bursitis, degenerative changes in the acromioclavicular joint.

Anyhow, I was told it could take 2-3 days before I notice any difference and, meanwhile, to use the arm as little as possible. So no chair workouts involving weights for now. I was also given a print out of other exercises to do, which look pretty straightforward. I can just add them to my daily workout routine.

The (possible) good news is that if it does work then my shoulder pain should be greatly reduced for several months. And if it doesn’t? Then I’m supposed to make another appointment via my GP for a second shot. And since I’m seeing the GP again in three weeks to update my mounjaro prescription that’ll work out. So fingers crossed this helps! Meanwhile, four weeks in with mounjaro (and my tweaks) and this morning I was down by 4 kilos.👍Still the tip of the iceberg, but it’s actually more than the 2-3 kilos a month I was hoping for.