Strange soreness in my achilles tendon

[Monolith]

Right foot. Im pretty sure its the achilles tendon, but its odd. It feels like its right to the left of the tendon. Hurts whenever i put weight on it. Havent done any calf work since last tuesday, and it just started hurting tonight.

I was planning on doing either deads or squats tomorrow, and was curious what anyone thought about this. Could it aggrivate whatever i did? Any idea what exactly i injured?

 

[Arnold]

kind of late responding...but I would have said no deads or squats tomorrow if it hurts when you put weight on it.

 

[bandaidwoman]

Originally posted by Monolith
Right foot. Im pretty sure its the achilles tendon, but its odd. It feels like its right to the left of the tendon. Hurts whenever i put weight on it. Havent done any calf work since last tuesday, and it just started hurting tonight.

I was planning on doing either deads or squats tomorrow, and was curious what anyone thought about this. Could it aggrivate whatever i did? Any idea what exactly i injured?

Sounds like an achilles bursitis rather than a tendonitiis. There is a small sack of fluid (bursa) that lies between the achilles tendon and the base of the tibial bone and upper posterior calcaneous, which is probably why the paiN is off- center.

Listin to Prince. Also, take some antiinflammatories and do heel stretches before embarking on future activity that may exacerbate it (like the squats).

 

[Dale Mabry]

What did you do to aggravate it? If it is indeed bursitis, you are not going to be a happy camper, that stuff doesn't go away too easily. I had it in my shoulder and the only thing that made it feel better was when I would use a TENS device on it. So then, I would just go thru periods when I would take a week off, start working out again, and then it would come back. Eventually I just gave up on it and worked thru the pain. I have no issues with it now.

 

[Monolith]

Strange... it felt fine the day after i posted this, so i did squats. Felt fine, but later that night and the next day it hurt again.

I ignored it, and it went away over the next couple days. Ive squatted twice since then and it hasnt come back.