I had a couple surgeries on my shoulder.
Freakin hell the pain was never ending and got worse every time I did something perfunctory like clean a bathroom, which could throw me in bed for 3 days at a time.....
3 operations and 4 years later....I can use my arm with mostly no problems, so Iong as I don’t attempt to open a bottle of ketchup, since I now have the grip of a newborn....
Many many years ago my BIL dislocated his shoulder in a dune buggy accident, he was young and healthy and was very afraid of doctors.
He was in terrible pain for three or so days before he finally went and it took months and months before he regained full use of it and that was just a dislocation.
I had rotator cuff surgery last July, then 7 months of healing. I recovered fine but hurt “something” a week ago. Very painful to reach to the Left. I thought all was well, but evidently not.