![]() You will need to be examined by an orthopaedic surgeon regarding: However, it is difficult to predict this without examining you and looking for physical signs suggestive of nerve root irritation. Sideline might be irritating the nerves which supply the shoulder and the fingers causing you the typical symptoms. Your combination of symptoms does not fit in anything else. Worsening of pain with tilting of the head to one side as can happen when you lying on your side is often indicative of nerve root irritation in the neck due to either a cervical disc or a prominent cervical osteophyte (this is bone formation secondary to normal ageing commonly called as spondylosis). You have not mentioned any stiffness in your shoulder along with the pain. Your symptoms are a little unusual in that the pain is brought on only by lying on the side. You have not mentioned anything about any history of diabetes I presume you are not. ![]() You are young to have had a CABG at the age of 43 years. The onset, duration and location have no set pattern except that it starts if I sleep on my left side.Ī:From your history it is apparent that you are a patient of high blood pressure, dyslipidemia and coronary artery disease. ![]() The pain doesn't increase/decrease with my morning walk and stretching exercises. The moment I sleep on my left side, my left shoulder and scapula region starts panning and the pain also spreads to the arm, hand and the fingers. For the last one and a half year, I am unable to sleep on my left side. Q: I am a 51 years old male who underwent coronary artery bypass graft (CBAG) seven years back.
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