Thoughts on HGH for injuries

[Jskylark]

I'm a 34 year old retired professional kickboxer who has being dealing with cronic injuries for many years. I've had 2 hip resurfacing surgeries due to severe hip impingements, leading to total cartilage loss, and thus new metal hips.

The hips are doing just fine overall but my elbow and shoulder just never seem to heal. Small tears in the rotator cuff along with bicep and tricep tendonitis that hasn't gotten better. I've tried resting, I've tried PT, and I've done several rounds of bpc 157 and tb500. Nothing has changed. I've seen different opinions but alot of times people just recommend skipping peptides and going to hgh.

Has anyone had success in dealing with chronic injuries with hgh? If so what was your protocol and timeline? My main focus is healing and getting rid of pain without having to look into surgical options again, any other benefits from hgh are a bonus not a priority

 

[Astro95]

HGH isn’t going to be magic for said injuries unfortunately. I’ve been on growth for months at substantial dose and my injuries hurt just the same when I aggravate them. I find training smart and around said injuries avoiding aggravating them to be the most effective solution for relief.

 

[Jskylark]

HGH isn’t going to be magic for said injuries unfortunately. I’ve been on growth for months at substantial dose and my injuries hurt just the same when I aggravate them. I find training smart and around said injuries avoiding aggravating them to be the most effective solution for relief.

That was what I figured.
I've definitely found ways around aggravating them but its hard to push myself like I used to. Im wondering of the recovery aspect would be helpful or at least make it possible to make some actual gains. Do you feel like its been worth while even with the injuries for that reason? What is a substantial dose?

 

[Wardamn]

I recover from training much faster while on HGH. But I have the same aches, pains and strains running it or not.

 

[Wardamn]

That was what I figured.
I've definitely found ways around aggravating them but its hard to push myself like I used to. Im wondering of the recovery aspect would be helpful or at least make it possible to make some actual gains. Do you feel like its been worth while even with the injuries for that reason? What is a substantial dose?

It's definitely worth it for enhanced recovery.

 

[Astro95]

That was what I figured.
I've definitely found ways around aggravating them but its hard to push myself like I used to. Im wondering of the recovery aspect would be helpful or at least make it possible to make some actual gains. Do you feel like its been worth while even with the injuries for that reason? What is a substantial dose?

Definitely worth using it, it’s a non negotiable for me. Substantial dose was 8iu daily for months now 10iu.

 

[MkInfiniteTesseract]

I'm a 34 year old retired professional kickboxer who has being dealing with cronic injuries for many years. I've had 2 hip resurfacing surgeries due to severe hip impingements, leading to total cartilage loss, and thus new metal hips.

The hips are doing just fine overall but my elbow and shoulder just never seem to heal. Small tears in the rotator cuff along with bicep and tricep tendonitis that hasn't gotten better. I've tried resting, I've tried PT, and I've done several rounds of bpc 157 and tb500. Nothing has changed. I've seen different opinions but alot of times people just recommend skipping peptides and going to hgh.

Has anyone had success in dealing with chronic injuries with hgh? If so what was your protocol and timeline? My main focus is healing and getting rid of pain without having to look into surgical options again, any other benefits from hgh are a bonus not a priority

Hey man, thanks for the post. First off good luck. Second, im in a similiar situation. Im 38 yrs old. I grew up ( say 9-16 yrs. Old )
Almost literally in my cities boxing gym, my step father was a trainer and I just became obsessed after sort being forced to go there after school. I did a couple years of wrestling in highschool then side note for story I took a sharp turn in my life's path and fucked things up. Crime, drugs, bank robbery...at 19 I was sentenced to 11 years for the bank robberies. I was released at 30 and changed my life around. I got invited to a buddies jiu jitsu school and just dove in head first. I had done some damage to my knee over the years in fights in prison. There's not much focus on ligament injuries while frequently being a SHU inmate. In 2022 I learbed the hard way about ego check and tapping early and fast. experienced a complete ACL tear and 2 major tears tears to my medial and posterior meniscus, partial mcl. Had it all reconstructed and full return to work and sport 12 months later.
4 months later into returning I did a random drop in at a school I had never trained at and even though I made it openly known my recent return and 12 month old acl reconstruction, the first roll the guy immediately pulled guard and went for that leg, i pulled out of it and proceeded to engaged pass guard, side control knee on belly, and scrambled into a dance getting the tap. Second roll, he eventually grabbed ahold of my leg and just pulled hard and fast. I heard it immediately, a loud snap, And I lost my fucking shit, lost my cool and the day ended in punches and my rolling partner bloody and yelling for help. Not a proud moment for me, but the class saw what happened heard my earlier explaining of my knee, and after 1st roll the coach even had asked him what he was doing in regards to knowing about my knee and him leg locking. I retore the hamstring graft and retore the medial horn. I had a patella BTB graft done with meniscus repair and added Lateral Extra-articular Tenodesis (LET). 7 weeks post op I was cleared of stabilizer locking rom brace. The very next day at the top of my stairs my knee hyper extended due to lack of quad strength and I slipped down 4 steps, landing right foot first firmly placed. The force was enough to fracture my patella, displacing the bottom 3rd, rupturing my quad tendon, completely tearing from the tibia, and retearing my meniscus. That was in January 2025, surgery was in Feb. Then I had a joint manipulation and meniscectomy done with scar tissue removal performed in June of 2025. Im now 2 months post op most recent surgery. Good ROM but absolutely no quad strength or control, my muscle has completely atrophied over these 2 years. I stayed with calisthetics throughout the time, and just the last 6-8 weeks returned to adding in bench, dumbells, some kettlebell training, along with my 3x wk. PT and push-ups pull ups, dips, core training.
Im driving myself forward with just pure will now, this is by far the most personally difficult and straining thing ive experienced. I was able to claim lst years knee injury as a work injury so I claim workers comp. But ive been unable to work for over a year now, and my wife has had to return to her field of work after being a stay at home mom since our 3 1/2 yr. Old son and 2 1/2 yr. Old daughter were born.
Im not looking for anything that will lessen pain and soreness, I dont care at all about that, im just looking for a compound that will assist me in rebuilding my quad and stabilizer muscles, while also assisting in strengthening all other tendons, ligaments, and muscles.

long ass story right there, shit I apologize. Felt good speaking on this. But yeah I really just need to get myself back into gear and back physically capable of working and training.
Ps. i run a residential construction contracting company that had been fully up and running for only 2 years prior to 1st tear.

Any advice would be really appreciated. Ive kept myself on a high cruisning of test throughout the entirety. Thanks.

 

[RandomLifter]

Helps with recovery, IMO. Don’t think there’s magic healing powers aside from that.

 

[Glycomann]

I'm a 34 year old retired professional kickboxer who has being dealing with cronic injuries for many years. I've had 2 hip resurfacing surgeries due to severe hip impingements, leading to total cartilage loss, and thus new metal hips.

The hips are doing just fine overall but my elbow and shoulder just never seem to heal. Small tears in the rotator cuff along with bicep and tricep tendonitis that hasn't gotten better. I've tried resting, I've tried PT, and I've done several rounds of bpc 157 and tb500. Nothing has changed. I've seen different opinions but alot of times people just recommend skipping peptides and going to hgh.

Has anyone had success in dealing with chronic injuries with hgh? If so what was your protocol and timeline? My main focus is healing and getting rid of pain without having to look into surgical options again, any other benefits from hgh are a bonus not a priority

I was a Judoka active for 45 years. I have similar wear and tear as you I would guess except from grappling. I had bone on bone in my right knee for past 10 years until 9 days ago when I had a knee replacement.

1. I assume you still stretch daily? That has been a big part of pain reduction for me. If I don't stretch I am a mess in a couple days.

2. At one point when my back and other issues were pretty bad I did yoga for 8 months and that gave a lot of relief. Eventually I got sick of granola farts from skinny zen women and dropped it but I still pulled some of the moves into my stretching.

3. Clean diet helps reduce inflammation. As long as I eat clean the pain is less. Wheat product are a big issue for me. Other than that pretty much all the additives they put in junk give me some issue. I track my diet daily using Cronometer.

4. I've used BPC157 and TB500 5-6 times over the years. Seems to work best on tendon strains. Not so much deeper joint inflammation issues. Some guys use massive amounts and claim big results. To much bank for me though.

5. I have been on low end dose GH 1-2 iu/d on average for a while. It helps partition nutrients and aid in recovery from training. If I go high it increases joint pain. Dialed in so my IGF-1 is at the top of normal range for my age makes all the low end magic happen. To much and it's a mess.

Hope this helps.