Pain In Left Shoulder Mono? Posted: 07-12-04 22:57pm
My son went to the doctor today to get
checked for a sinus infection . He is 16
yrs old. The doctors suspects mono.
His glands were swollen. His tonsillis
were covered with white spots. Eye lids
were swollen. He took a culture to be
sure of no strep infection. Later on
when we got home he had really bad
stabbing pains in his upper left shoulder
area. He took some 800 motrin and the
pain lessened. We are supposed to go get
blood work for mono. The spleen was not
enlarged when the doctor felt it this
morning but later this nite he does have
pain on his left side now. Not bad he
can feel something different now. What
is going on?
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Forum Girl
Experienced User , Rather EHEALTHy
Joined: 15 Oct 2003 Posts: 207 Location: Orlando, Florida
Posted: 07-13-04 18:00pm
My mom told me when I was a child one
night I got rapidly sick out of nowhere
and had a high fever but my only complaint
was that my shoulder hurt. She was
confused and called the doctor who said to
bring me straight to the hospital. It
turned out I had pnuemonia and that
depending on what part of the lung the
pnuemonia is where you will feel pain.
My pnuemonia was in the upper part of my
lung and the pain I felt seemed like it
was in my shoulder. I'm not saying that
is why your son has shoulder pain but it
sounds kinda familiar to me.
