Never ending tendonitis very frustrating

[flood]

Was doing an anti-inflammatory diet program; The Abascal Way. It probably works great for people who need to get off McDonalds and pizza pockets, but I've eaten whole food for decades. Hasn't helped but honestly I didn't give it a full try... BECAUSE;

My TRT doc said to try eliminating food from the nightshade family. So I'm eliminating red peppers, tomato, potato, paprika, egg plant, hot peppers. Seems to be easing up after re-flaring finally. I did chest last night and it still a bit better. Been skipping these foods for 4 days but it takes a lot longer - I've read. So still not sure yet.

 

[robono]

I feel ur pain bro, I got burcitis in my shoulders...some days worse than others.but I agree, whith he streching helps theory

 

[NoviceAAS]

A huge help with tendonitis is Tuemeric !!!! Yes thats right the cooking spice, which is also available in pill/ capsule form . It takes a couple of weeks to help, and it can give some people heart burn, but I think you'll find it works great . 1200 - 1500 mg a day !

 

[Joey Zasa]

we all have gone through this especially new lifters or lifters who improve rapidly ........if you continue to pound away your injury can become chronic. inflammation is your body attempting to heal itself up. work around the injury.. also I hope you aren't using gloves and straps as those can cause an imbalance and weaken your tendons and ligaments

 

[rzrbak]

I've had the same thing for a while now and it's finally going away. Extra rest helped a lot but these types of injuries can last a long time, so I wasn't going to just wait untill it went away completely. I altered my training routine so that I had no isolation exercises for the biceps and did not go heavy on upper body pulling movements. It still aggravated it but not to the point where I needed anything for the pain. It was just enough pain/discomfort to let me know that it was still there and that I still needed to take it easy. It's almost completely gone now, but it's also been a good 4-5 months since it started. So be patient, because it's doubtful it will be gone anytime soon.

Have the same problem on my bicep right now for the last two+ months. Great advice above. I stopped doing isolation exercises on my biceps and have just let my back exercises (which work your biceps as a side) keep me up. Pain has gotten much better. Only feel a little after back day and it continues to be less and less. Before I couldn't flex or straighten my arm without a sting of pain.

 

[johnnovelty]

I had the after barbell curls. I moved to doing ez bar curls and it resolved. The immense forearm pain was due to the rotation.

Now if the skullcrushers didn't kill my elbows...


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[chocolatemalt]

I've tried icing and ibuprofen (800mg 4x/day) with limited improvement on elbow tendonitis. What helped the most was tennis ball therapy -- 5 mins with a ball against a wall, push the painful part of your elbow (or whatever) into the ball, roll it around, grimace at the pain but keep at it every day for several weeks. This seems to break up scar tissue and establish new blood flow for help with healing and reducing inflammation. That's the theory anyway.

A friend (doc) had access to a "cold laser" to treat her own tendonitis and it seems to work nicely as well, same tissue break-up theory as with the tennis ball. I haven't had the luck to try it myself though.

 

[flood]

Update on my experience so far. Eliminating nightshades has helped but not eliminated the pain. I've also refrained from going to the gym, so there's the rest angle too. I read a study that found Turmeric does help and that it helps a LOT more with pepper - ground black pepper. Turmeric, Like NoviceAAS recommended.

 

[NoviceAAS]

Hey glad to help bud !!!!

 

[flood]

Update: Back to lifting, pain still almost gone. Lifting lighter but much slower. Good pump and DOMS finally!

　

Still eliminating Nightshades and Wheat.

Still eating Tumeric & Black Pepper, MSM, Chondroitin, Olive & Fish Oils, Pineapple.

Ordered new supps after reading Pubmed.org studies etc...;

Lesser Galangal

Quesrcetin & Bromelain

Hyaluronic Acid -reordered more

 

[irish1987]

I get it in my right forearm. Ive had it come up before and go away. Did arms last night and decided to lay off any bar curls and do strictly db's for a while at lighter weights. It didnt seem to be too bad last night.

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[sneedham]

I believe someone mentioned this in the thread. I have been focusing on stretching it as much as possible and it is feeling the best it has in 6 month's......

This Message Was Sent By ME!!!!!

 

[vassille]

Update: Back to lifting, pain still almost gone. Lifting lighter but much slower. Good pump and DOMS finally!

　

Still eliminating Nightshades and Wheat.

Still eating Tumeric & Black Pepper, MSM, Chondroitin, Olive & Fish Oils, Pineapple.

Ordered new supps after reading Pubmed.org studies etc...;

Lesser Galangal

Quesrcetin & Bromelain

Hyaluronic Acid -reordered more

I can vouch for the wheat, been wheat free for almost 2 years and what a difference. Dont get me wrong I still have the normal aches and pains but inflamation is gone.

 

[kfiggy]

I actually just had to deal with this, I had tendonitis in both elbows and got in the way of a lot of my lifting. I tried all the supplements, glucosamine, msm, etc.. I even stopped doing biceps for a month and it still hurt. At that point I used tennis elbow straps which did provide some relief but the pain still nagged on. One day my friend and his girl came over and I was bitching about the pain, his girl said she could fix it and gave an extremely deep massage to my forearms. This is not the type of massage that relaxes or makes you feel good, it is down right painful and you need to hang in and take it for as long as you could. After the massage I was able to move my arms without feeling any discomfort. She recommended a massage therapist and I went to check it out. The massage I received this time was even more painful, my forearms were actually swollen after but 2 days later they felt great. He even showed me how to do it on my own and now I have my wife do the massage for me and my tendonitis is now gone. My recommendation is to find a good massage therapist and have them work out all of the knots, it was the only thing that actually worked for me.

 

[AlphaStrength50]

damn hopeu feel better bro

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[flood]

Check this;http://tendinosis.org/injury.shtml

 

[flood]

UPDATE; After realizing I didn't have arthritis or tendonitis I started to study tendinosis. The site tendinosis.org made me think... I need to get collagen and all the supps I take to push into tendons and ligaments' collagen matrix etc. Then I came across Blood Flow Restricted training, or Occlusion Training which was supposed to allow hypertrophy with less weight. First I figured the lower weight would let my elbows heal while still giving them the resistance work they needed as they healed - AND hypertrophy too. After a pull day my elbows flared up. The next day they were still sore so I said screw it and tried BFR after I had read many studies on pubmed and plosone etc... MY JOINTS FELT BETTER WHEN DONE --- NOT WORSE LIKE THEY USUALLY DO ON BICEPS DAY! Pump was great too btw. They flared up again after the going to the gym 1 day later, so I put the straps on my biceps and did forearms. 80% pain free right away. I have no idea if this is psychosomatic or what, just passing on my experience. And did I mention great forearm pump too? ***search; Blood Flow Restricted training, or Occlusion Training