Bicep Tendonitis

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Hey guys, first I wanted to mention that I am a lifetime natural at 24 years old and I have been trying to find a way to make my bicep tendonitis go away faster. On march 10th 2023, I injured both of my bicep tendons doing heavy deadlifts. Kept training on it for about 2 weeks until the pain got really bad. At that point I stopped training upper body. Saw a doctor and he prescribed me some NSAIDs and it made my pain worse, so I stopped taking them after many tries. My pain was to the point that I could barely move my arms. I got sharp pain radiating from the front of my shoulders all the way down to the insides of my elbows. Fast-forward 2 months later which is the time of me writing this, I have done 4 sessions of PT and 2 sessions of sports massages. The massages had 0 effect on me. PT on the other hand, helps (basic acupuncture, series of tests on my upper body and nerve work). Each time I went, I had slight pain reductions but as soon as I did the exercises that she prescribed me, I lost all the progress I had. Normally, I could lift 50s on the preacher curl, but for recovery I'm doing 5lbs curls and this puts me in enormous amounts of pain along with tingling in my fingers. Now, I can move my arms freely and have pain sometimes during the day even when I'm doing doing nothing, so I do have a little progress.

Does anyone have or has had the same thing happen to them and what did you do to get rid of the pain and how long did it take? Also, I'm looking into peptides to get things to heal faster. Did peptides help you?
 

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Voltaren is a topical nsaid, and I alternated applying that with a lydocain treatment. At the start, I applied one of them every hour. I was working with tennis elbow.
Bpc does help. I used tb500 as well, and had good results.
Ice multiple times a day.
Hard part will be getting the pain and inflammation back under control. If it’s causing pain, then ditch the 5lb dumbbells, and use less weight, especially at the beginning.

Not a dr or PT, just my experience…
 

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Voltaren is a topical nsaid, and I alternated applying that with a lydocain treatment. At the start, I applied one of them every hour. I was working with tennis elbow.
Bpc does help. I used tb500 as well, and had good results.
Ice multiple times a day.
Hard part will be getting the pain and inflammation back under control. If it’s causing pain, then ditch the 5lb dumbbells, and use less weight, especially at the beginning.

Not a dr or PT, just my experience…
Ok I will give that a try, how long did it take you to get rid of your tendinits?
 

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I’m a horrible example, lol….
I tried to ‘work around’ the pain for 6 months, during which, it only got worse.
Just spent 2 months in physical therapy. They released me, as I’ve made great progress, but I’m not 100% yet.
I’m almost a year since first symptoms now.
Main reason it has taken this long? I fucked around…. Which always means, you’re gonna find out…

Get aggressive on treatment from the get go. Rest, ice, don’t aggravate it. Listen to the PT like they are preaching the gospel.

What I outlined above, is generally what I had to do in order to start making progress.
 

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How was your tendinitis diagnosed? May want to go to another Dr. for another opinion.
 

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I would take same time off and let the inflammation go down. I know it's hard to fathom but Imo your just making it worse by pressing on
Yeah I've been away from the gym for 9 weeks now asides from doing legs and doing preacher curls (eccentric) with 3lbs dumbells twice a week. Inflammation has seemed to calm down tis week. It only flares up a little the day after doing my exercises. So I am moving forwards but slowly.
 

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Glad to hear it’s improving. Other than preacher curls, are you using anything else that is helping?

I’ve seen reference to eccentrics before, never tried them specifically for tendonitis though?
 

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Glad to hear it’s improving. Other than preacher curls, are you using anything else that is helping?

I’ve seen reference to eccentrics before, never tried them specifically for tendonitis though?
No I don’t do anything else other than preacher eccentric curls and rest away from the gym
 
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