Tendon injury update

[dabigcheese]

Well here's what happened:

http://forums.steroid.com/showthread.php?t=289470

Ive been on 3 IU a day of Jintropin. Into week 12 now. The injury is close to healed. I saw a sports injury specialist this week. The guy looked at the ultrasound images and the X-ray but thought that the injury had healed further in the twenty days between the ultrasound and my appointment with him. He reckoned the injury is about 95 percent healed.

This is an injury that had not healed natty for about 6 months before I started with GH.

So here are a few trips for the bros with a tendon injury:

Don't make the mistake I made in waiting for 6 months before using your own means of fixing the injury. As soon as you realise you have a tendon injury, get GH or IGF-1 right away (assuming you are not diabetic and do not have other problems which would disqualify usage). And here's the interesting bit: the doc I spoke to said that if the injury hadn't healed he would have tried soundwave therapy, cortisone shots and a lot of other pointless treatment which in reality does nothing to speed recovery.

Here's the astonishing fact: my own method (of simply injecting 3 IU a day of GH) was a superior method of healing a tendon injury than anything that would have been applied and used by a Sports Injury specialist with 10 years' experience. This raises the question: Why is the medical profession not using GH for healing joint and tendon injuries when GH has been around for more than twenty years and is well known for speeding up recovery? It is quite astonishing.

I do think that the injury could have been healed in 4 weeks flat if instead of using GH I had used IGF-1. This was a mistake in hindsight. But GH wasn't a waste - my bodyfat levels have dropped incredibly, skintone has improved and the bloat on my face (a remnant of the last deca cycle) is gone. So it wasn't a waste. But I guess the point is, if you only want to use GH for healing tendons, use IGF-1 instead. It would be cheaper and would work a lot faster.

Comments invited.

[dabigcheese]

A few other points to add:

IGF-1 would not work if the tendon was torn completely obviously. That would require surgery first but after surgery, the "stuff" should do its work.

The injury I had was an inflammation of the tendon. This was a form of TENDONOSIS.

The GH I injected subQ. Didnt spot inject but it seems to have worked.

[j4ever41]

I have been having nagging tendon problems with both elbows for a long time, would you pin the igf im as close to the pain as possible?

[dabigcheese]

I would inject intramuscular into the muscle that is closest to the injury. I'd also take time off from the gym for about a month.

With IGF, I'd go with 30 micrograms a day. You can bump it up if sides aren't too bad. But I wouldn't go beyond 50.

Having said all that, Ive never used IGF-1 myself. There is a school of thought that you should always inject IGF-1 IM because subQ shots are more likely to end up in the gut and cause gut growth which is always something to be avoided.

How long have you had the injury and what are the symptoms?

[j4ever41]

I have this for about 2 years, when it first started like a dumbazz I kept lifting and made it worse, since then it will get better for awhile and then come back but it never completly leaves even when it is at its least. When it first started it was inner elbow,when that got better it moved to outer elbow, then it kinda bounced back and forth for awhile and then moved in the middle of elbow. So I thought I would try cissus,igf lr3,pmgf and a gh booster and layoff workingout for a few weeks. Most of my pain comes from bicep workouts 2nd to that would be back movements other bodyparts not so bad.

[Timm1704]

i have a tendon problem, believed to be tendonosis or tendonitis of the supraspinatus and the pec major. I havent trained in 2 months and it doesnt seem much better. Had an MRI recently and have not had the results yet. I am very interested in using IGF-1, thanks greatly for your information, how long would you suggest running it? until the pain subsides?

[dabigcheese]

IGF-1 should usually not be run for more than a month. ***ending upon the dosage, the injury should heal quickly if you do it right. The important thing is to take time off from the gym or not work on the injured tendon while on IGF-1. Give it some time to heal and see what happens.

There are no guarantees in life but this is your best option. It is infinitely better than anything the sports injury specialists will try - their methods rarely ever produce the results we want (which is to heal the injury completely).

[dabigcheese]

i have a tendon problem, believed to be tendonosis or tendonitis of the supraspinatus and the pec major. I havent trained in 2 months and it doesnt seem much better. Had an MRI recently and have not had the results yet. I am very interested in using IGF-1, thanks greatly for your information, how long would you suggest running it? until the pain subsides?

Here I'd go subQ if an "injectable muscle" was not be conveniently located.

[Timm1704]

well i was thinking either inject in the anterior deltoid or the pectoral muscle. rotate between the two. the supraspinatus is a rotator cuff tendon and runs very near the front delt, and the pec major is the the insertion of the pectoral under the armpit