I have been having left shoulder blade pain for 2 weeks.any ideas what it could be?

Question

I have had a colonoscopy,an upper gi scan,labs up the yazoo,chest x-ray,and a CT, which I haven't got the results from yet.I have been told that it may be my gall bladder,but that my gall bladder is still functioning, just "lazy."Whatever it is, I am miserable and would really like some answers, HELP!!!! i have also had an EKG that shows that my heart is normal for a person my age.

Answer 1

Outside of the obvious musculoskeletal causes of left-sided shoulder pain, referred pain in the left shoulder can often originate from organs or lesions impinging on the left side of the diaphragm, such as an abscess

Answer 2

As the first two answerers suggested, the pain could be musculoskeletal, including bursitis, rotator cuff injury, tendons/ligaments, arthropathy, etc.

Was a neurological inspection done to see if there's any nerve involvement?

Pains that occur under the shoulder blade may signal a warning that the pain is not in the shoulder itself, but can be related to a pain from one of the organs in the body. E.g. stomach or other abdominal structures (ulcers, pancreatitis, ectopic pregnancy) or in the chest (myocardial infarction [heart attack], pericarditis, pleuritis, pneumonia, pulmonary embolus, aortic dissection). Or it can relate to liver disease, or a problem with the duodenum. Pain under the right shoulder blade, not the left, can be a signal of a gall-bladder inflammation or gallstones.

Breast cancer can metastasize to the left scapula, but I'm sure that this would have been detected.

None of what I suggested should be interpreted as a diagnosis, they are only broad possible suggestions. Please let your physician do the diagnosis.

Answer 3

Shoulder pain could be caused by strain in front of a computer, by prolonged handwriting, or by some type of physical labor. Could this be the cause for you?

Answer 4

Supraspinatus tendinitis.