Hi im new!

gbenz1

Hi,

I'm new as the title says. 31yo female.

Ive had pain in my shoulder for 6+ years and people have just kept telling me I had bad posture. I have a 3 month old son and ive been carrying him around a lot and things have recently become worse. I do believe it is possibly a compressed nerve. I have severe shoulder pain but mostly under my arm to my elbow and into my ribcage. I also periodically experience numbess in my right thigh.

After years of asking, I finally have an MRI scheduled for Friday. Which is all fine, however I saw my doctor write on his computer fibroblastic disorder, and upon looking that up on dr google, ive come to find out that this may be a tumor? How can he know that without an MRI?

While googling away, I found this website. Im wondering what the different symptoms between a herniated disk/compressed nerve and a spinal tumor are. I am really terrified it might be much more serious than I thought. Anyone with any knowledge of this, please comment!

L4_L5

... I saw my doctor write on his computer fibroblastic disorder, and upon looking that up on dr google, ive come to find out that this may be a tumor?

I would not read too much into that.

He might suspect Fibroblastic Disorder.

Suspect does not mean that’s your issue.

He probably needs a justification for ordering the MRI.

That’s all.

Don’t sweat it.

Please keep your chin up and keep us posted.

memerainbolt

Hello gbenz1
Welcome to Spine-Health

I had to research fibroblastic disorder as I had never heard of it. I'm glad you have a MRI scheduled. I would want to ask your doctor how he came to that conclusion without a MRI. If it is this, they are mostly benign.
Since you have researched this, you should be able to list of questions for your doctor.

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gbenz1

Thank you L4_L5, that is really reassuring to hear. I really do hope thats the case. As i've been told it was just bad posture I really was no expecting to see something like that! And he didnt even mention it!

Thank you memerainbolt. I know he doesnt know that I know, but youre right, it does give me a chance to do some further research and come up with some questions. Most of the tumors are benign, but some can be malignant and that isnt a great rabbit hole to go down. Just need some people to talk me back from the edge lol

Thanks for your comments. I will be on here for a while either way I imagine, so there will be lots of updates.