I see the guy on Mon. It’s strange that I have almost zero complications yet the first diagnosis after the MRI is a full tear of one tendon.
Hey man, any updates? That’s exactly what I was dealing with – zero complications with a full tear. It made it hard to commit to six months of bullshit so I could curl 70-pound dumbbells again … for no reason at all. Hope you made a decision and are good with it. Keep us posted either way.
Surgery is March 5. Gonna do BPC 157, a lot of collagen, fish oils, vasodialator, Vit C, D, Magnesium. Hoping for a 10 to 12 week lay off before back to full duty.
Good deal. Glad you’re getting it taken care of. I’ve heard it ain’t that bad at all.
Recovery is supposed to be 16 weeks… fuck that. My acl was supposed to be 9 months and I ended deadlifting 500 at around 6 months… trap bar, of course
I’m sure you’ll feel it out, but not worth fucking it up and having to go again. Gut says a load-bearing tendon like this hasta, hasta, hasta heal fully and reattach before you step away from the computer and start wrestling bad guys.
Had surgery on the 5th. In a brace for 10 fucking weeks.
I’m using 40 g collagen peptides, 3 g Vit C, Magnesium, B complex, Glucosamine / Chondroitin, D3, BPC 157 and TB 500. I’m fucking determined to heal ahead of schedule.
How long was your recovery ?
that’s what happened to me back in march. I had a torn supra full thickness tear and slightly torn long head - when I slipped and fell into myself from a 2 foot rock while hiking, it tore everything in my should including my bicep.
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there is a study going on since 2018 with anavar. Anavar actually helps heal the tendons and promotes blood flow to the tendons. IF someone is suffering from chronic alcohol liver damage, they would give them anavar to heal the liver! : )I really hope that they find the positives with anavar and legalize it again. It truly is a wonder hormone that I hope sees the light of day again for medical usage. I have used bpc myself and I will say it does work. I had a helluva time trying to get the area where your abs end at your pubic bone on the right side. Felt like it was herniated even thought it wasn’t, it was just painful. I wasn’t properly working out neglecting my legs. I hiked a lot and my legs are cut and strong, so I wouldn’t train legs. This led to a weakness in my abs on the opposite side. Once I learned this, I started training harder with legs and used bpc. I was about on my fifth week and thought this crap isn’t working, wonder if it’s bunk or maybe i have a severe problem and then going into the 5th week POOF. I woke up one day and it was gone. I finished out the 6 week cycle and have been a believer ever since. but when it comes to injury with your arms, I was in the same boat with the therapist. I had to take it slow, but the doctor miscalculated and I should have stayed in passive mode for a few more weeks. Science shows that holding off longer than 6 weeks or stepping into it 2-3 weeks doesn’t matter, but it does if you have a massive rotator cuff issue. Distols are the toughest I think versus the proximal, but I will say if this happens again, I definitely won’t do surgery. It’s tough - it’s affected every portion of my life and I would only say do it if you’re tough emotionally and mentally and understand that you will basically be crippled for 6 weeks with an arm in a sling, but each day it does get a little better. Once you learn that and realize that, it becomes easy. You’re just walking through life a little slower but it doesn’t mean it has to be any less fun,.
I feel ya both. I have been going through a deep depression at first with this injury. Everyday I wake up expecting to go work out like I used to and it hits me every time. Wow. I can’t. I have chosen the surgery option, but I chose poorly because I was in a panic and thought I needed it done right away. I may be going through it for a third time because I ate some bad food and threw up 2 weeks after and I may have pulled the sutures. But one thing that I have learned going through this is that our bodies will always find a way to compensate. There are guys who chose not to with awesome success stories just as there are guys with just as many success stories with surgery. I really do give you guys a big kudos for doing so. I was already getting back to fixing things up around the house etc and then dealing with this surgery has put me back to zero with the depression and hopelessness. I am usually an optimistic guy and hardly ever depressed, but this is a decision that I know I’ll live with the rest of my life no matter what happens this time. If it fails again, I’m done with it. I’ll do what everyone else here who opted not to have surgery and push through it.
my doctor said mine was hanging on by a thread, but post surgery i had a popeye deformity because somewhere in surgery it failed and he glossed over it 2 weeks post op, but 4 months down the road he looked at it and said, “oh that’s not good, it failed…” I have read also that scar tissue will build up and it will almost look normal but it will never be as strong and you’ll only get weaker in the supine position with age. there’s a guy who blogged is story and his arms look pretty good, but like he says, there’s some waits like hammer curls he can do, but preacher curls are out of the question.
That’s exactly how I tore mine!
Hello, I have had a similar situation. I had a traumatic fall 6 years ago, shattered my radius and in the process somehow partially tore the distal biceps tendon. Because my fracture was so bad everything else with tendons was put on hold. Frankly after a long time getting the fracture stabilized and my ability to even move my wrist at back, I didn’t notice that I couldn’t supinate my hand in a biceps curl until almost 6 months later. It was very strange it was like the forearm would just not supinate without shaking from the point of the elbow. Because of the impaction of my radius my EPL doesn’t work all that well either because the grove in the radius that keep s the tendon in place was smashed, cominuted or whatever. For a long time we thought that was what was the cause of my inability to fully supinate my wrist. It wasn’t though it didn’t help the situation. It is six years later and I did not have surgery to repair the distal biceps tendon but have been doing PT aggressively. I now can supinate my hand a bit better but not as much as before the accident. When I go heavier in weight I can do the curl but I feel that other muscles are compensating for me to be able to supinate my hand. There is a little asymmetry in my arms in the muscles near the elbow and I am constantly getting brachialis and brachioradialis tendinitis, upper triceps dominance and forearm extensor weakness, biceps weakness. So yes I can pretty much do everything I used to do not having had the surgery but I really have to focus on mind body connection when I work that arm so I keep the muscles in enough balance so I don’t get pain or another injury.
Hey dispatch - I’m 38 years old, and got a full distal tear this past weekend. I am trying to decide whether or not to get surgery. This thread makes for a compelling argument not to, especially since it’s my non-dominant arm. But I noticed you mentioned you have some regrets about not doing it. Would you mind sharing what those are? Thanks!!