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If you get any sort problems from the shoulders down it'll be from your wrists taking more stress than they want to. There are a few options for the discomfort:
There is always the chance that you're not as flexible as you were when you had the bike fitted.
Ii is possible that they fitted you to the wrong bike, fitting a person to a bike depends on what you're using the bike for, type of riding, prefered riding style, flexibility, etc. Some frames are built for comfort some for speed.
You may find that there is a lot of shock and vibrations being transfered through the handlbars and that causes the pain. It's quite common to get wrist, forearm and/or shoulder pain from vibrations, becasue the muscles and nerves tend to work harder with an increase in vibrations. New bar tape and/or better gloves could be an option, or a better quality fork.
You could try moving the Bars back and/or up and get new bar tape/gloves. and make sure your saddle is horizontal so you don't keep sliding onto the handlebars (just to reiterate what the others said).