Can Dialysis Cause Shoulder Pain

Some people on dialysis complain that they have severe shoulder pain, but they don’t know whether their shoulder pain is due to their dialysis treatment. Therefore, can dialysis cause shoulder pain? Is there any remedy to help people on dialysis get rid of shoulder pain?

If you are suffering from bad shoulder pain, you are not alone because many other people are also faced with this problem. Here is a real story come from one dialysis patient: I have been suffering with a pain in my should and it is hurting like hell. I can’t lay down, sit up, laugh, cough, or even breathe deeply. I have shoulder pain all the time, and it seams that the more years I on dialysis, the worser the pain just gets.

This type of pain after sometime on dialysis is quite common, because the balance of substances that are responsible to keep bone and muscle healthy is disturbed, while the shoulder joint is just made up of bones and muscles. If your shoulder pain isn’t caused by the weather, air or external force, it must have an intimate link with low calcium level, PHD, high phosphorus level or vitamin D.

Fortunately, a healthy diet and right medicines are able to correct this abnormal healthy problems. Make a scientific diet plan and choose healthy foods according to your specific condition.

High-calcium foods: milk products, beans, fish, grains, animal bones, laminaria japonica, lily flower, carrots, mushrooms, black fungus, broccoli, broccoli, amaranth and spinach, etc.

High-phosphorus: Condiment, mushroom, seed, cheese, fish, cocoa, some meat, wheat, some bean products, etc.

People with shoulder pain have different causes, so you had better make a correct diet plan with the help of kidney experts. In some cases, only depending diet can’t work very well, so you may need to take some medicines that can correct these abnormal minerals content in the body.

The above methods are helpful to ease your shoulder pain, but it can’t help repair damaged kidney function. If you want to get rid of shoulder pain completely, a treatment that can help you improve your kidney function should also be sought.