Confusion about Shoulder Issues and what to do?

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i guess i am wanting stories from different ones who have experienced different shoulder issues and what you have done about them or to work around them? I don't think its wrong to hear your advice either because i have been given every diagnosis (lol, not every, but all different needs ).
I know there is shoulder impingement, rotator coff issues, bursitis, bicep tendonitis, and neck issues causing shoulder pain. Plus probably other things. I don't know if frozen shoulder is something else or another name for one of these.
Anyway, my story: Around 6 years ago (close to that), i had a cervical fusion of 4-6.Put that aside for the moment. i have been dealing with pain in 1 arm for over a year, realizing after several different diagnoses of what is happening now, it was probably bicep tendonitis, which I have in both now. First Xrays, I just went by that and went to PT and they just made me hurt worse all thru arms. (This was after I'd helped lift piupes off a high truck over my head that I had the xrays. There was a lot of inflammation thru whole body, as i also have a lot of autoimmune issues and any muscle or bone stress just flares me up all over). After that first 6 weeks of PT, I went back to Dr for more xrays and This Dr (she was a PA for the Spine and shoulder Drs there), she said I seemed to have a lot of shoulder inflammation and impingement- in both. So had another round of PT and ended up in even more pain. So they sent me for an MRI of both arms and to see how neck was doing because i'd had the fusion, and hubby's arms were what led them to know his neck was messed up. They confirmed the impingement, inflammation was not coming down, and bursitis (thats an old people word!!), She offered a block, and I mistakenly thought that would injure my kidneys further so I asked, just in case to see my old spine Dr. He got even more Xrays to go with my MRI based on my symptoms and found I had degenerated more above and below fusion and into my spine, the above and below disks were also bulged and it looked like my fusion never healed and had broken/loosened (think of it being there, but broken screws), he thinks because of my diabetes and high inflammation rate. I try to keep good control of blood sugar, I just have a body that likes to collect autoimmune diseases and cancer (I know I keep mentioning inflammation but that seems to be part of the big root in all this)
i am supposed to get a block Friday, in neck/ upper spine area. I don't know if this will help me use my arms at all. I have barely been able to lift them this year. I have used bands some, lifted very light weights a few times, when I can lift arms enough, I do some kettlebell swings because it seems to stretch me in the right places without hurting others. I have been kind of afraid a block would just make me injure myself worse if I don't know I am hurting myself.
because of the health issues and because my family's bones are basically powder and they have no muscle tone, its been the one thing I have been able to obsess about doing right for myself. I have a strong need to build strong muscle and bone. just not sure what to do anymore (I can't stretch enough to do yoga right now which I miss greatly, but down dog and deep stretches leave me in a lot of pain and that is not the world I know).

Just wondering what others that need to move (FEEL the need) to care for themselves(not athletic, its just important to me). What different issues you have and what you do to work around them? I was not trying to say all that to compare, I just don't believe I have all those things they have said and trying to narrow it down to what the problem actually is so I can work on it properly. I want my husband to get his other hip done before i have surgery, but I know its inevitable, and since i have to wait anyway, I want to do all I can to improve before then so I will heal easier when the time comes. (Its hard to look for this on youtube because each of the issues seem to have healing methods or work thru methods that would work against if I had another issue)

I thought a lot to write this because so many threads I have seen lately have people speaking of upper body issues of different sorts. maybe pussitng some of them together and seeing what you all do can help us? I don't know. Just hoping. Bless you all!!