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What Causes Shoulder Blade Pain After Food?
Hello I have pain on my left shoulderbladder after swallowing food or even drinking liquid. It is there for 4 months and did not go away. My heart and lungs are checked and i also had mr for my neck and back and i I have 2 hernias on the neck and says are pressure to certain neural elements on the left. I also saw a GI but when i saw the doctor i hade additional symptoms like the food stucking on the chest and throat feeling . But they went away 1 week later. All i have now is the pain on my left shoulder blade after swallowing . My left shoulder blade actually hurts in day time but aster swallowing the pain makes it self feel more intensive. Many thanks for your answer .
Fri, 15 May 2020
Hello,
There would be many causes for shoulder blade pain, but if it occurs specifically after eating it indicates more towards radiating pain rather then musculoskeletal pain.
Radiating pain may emanatesfrom visceral organs pathology like lung pathology including pleuritis,heart pathology like infarction or myocarditispancreatitis,pancreatic duct lithiasis ,GERD or involvement of diaphragm or spleen.
But since it occurs specifically after eating diagonosis goes more in favour of stomach or pancreatic pathology. You need to have a ultrasonography whole abdomen done along with a chest x ray pa view.
Hope I have answered your query. Let me know if I can assist you further.
Take care
Regards,
Dr. Rohan Shanker Tiwari
There would be many causes for shoulder blade pain, but if it occurs specifically after eating it indicates more towards radiating pain rather then musculoskeletal pain.
Radiating pain may emanatesfrom visceral organs pathology like lung pathology including pleuritis,heart pathology like infarction or myocarditispancreatitis,pancreatic duct lithiasis ,GERD or involvement of diaphragm or spleen.
But since it occurs specifically after eating diagonosis goes more in favour of stomach or pancreatic pathology. You need to have a ultrasonography whole abdomen done along with a chest x ray pa view.
Hope I have answered your query. Let me know if I can assist you further.
Take care
Regards,
Dr. Rohan Shanker Tiwari
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