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What Causes Pain In Shoulders And Left Hip While Lying Down?

I only have pain while lying down, in my shoulders and left hip. My Primary care has prescribed physical therapy because he feels it s muscular. Perhaps during the day I have some achiness in my shoulders and a bit of fatigue in the afternoon. I am retired and care for my 3 yr old granddaughter but no real physical overexertion while caring for her.
Wed, 30 Dec 2015
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Hello,
Welcome to HCM.

Shoulder pain and left hip pain are likely to be due to muscular (myalgia or muscle spasm) or musculo-skeletal origin since it is more related to posture while caring your granddaughter.

So,I will keep this possibility first and your primary care provider also suspected that and will advise you to use over the counter pain reliever medications (diclogenac or naproxen) with muscle relaxant like mebeverine 200 mg for symptomatic relief for 2 to 3 days.

However,I would like to ask some more information here in order to rule out other possibilities.

Do you have any history of any injury or fall down?
Since when you are feeling this pain?
Is there any other symptoms apart from shoulder and hip pain?
Is the pain is constant or intermittent?

Meanwhile,avoid heavy weight lifting and do hot fomentation frequently in a day.

Avoid the posture which aggravates pain and take rest on bed by sitting comfortably since you feel pain during lying down.

Consult ortho-pedician if your pain becomes severe or remain persistent even after symptomatic treatment.

Hope this will help you

Regards,
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What Causes Pain In Shoulders And Left Hip While Lying Down?

Hello, Welcome to HCM. Shoulder pain and left hip pain are likely to be due to muscular (myalgia or muscle spasm) or musculo-skeletal origin since it is more related to posture while caring your granddaughter. So,I will keep this possibility first and your primary care provider also suspected that and will advise you to use over the counter pain reliever medications (diclogenac or naproxen) with muscle relaxant like mebeverine 200 mg for symptomatic relief for 2 to 3 days. However,I would like to ask some more information here in order to rule out other possibilities. Do you have any history of any injury or fall down? Since when you are feeling this pain? Is there any other symptoms apart from shoulder and hip pain? Is the pain is constant or intermittent? Meanwhile,avoid heavy weight lifting and do hot fomentation frequently in a day. Avoid the posture which aggravates pain and take rest on bed by sitting comfortably since you feel pain during lying down. Consult ortho-pedician if your pain becomes severe or remain persistent even after symptomatic treatment. Hope this will help you Regards,