[quote]G.I. Joe Galway wrote:
What did u have surgury on? Because isn’t winny hard on joints?[/quote]
I had surgery on my left distal clavicle, where it had hypertrophied from absorbing it’s own calcium/minerals, and was pushing against my ac joint which caused a deep pain to shoot down my tricep, and caused an acute sharp pain right where my clavicle and acromium met. It’s an uncommon disease that a lot of weightlifters/Oly lifters get…
Usually it’s from heavier benching and overhead pressing and either hits you soon or after some years of time…Those movements in particular because of the physics involved in them, can cause microtrauma(fractures) in the distal end of the clavicle where the forces are concentrated, and that initiates the pathology and then it begins reabsorbing it’s own calcium/mineral/bone, and gets larger at the same time. It’s rather hard to diagnose, as was the case with myself, as it appears to be just another minor tear or pull at first…then you try to work through it, etc, and it just doesn’t go away, but gets worse.
It didn’t show on my initial MRI, but rather on the xray where my specialist observed the distal end of the clavicle to be bigger than it should be. The other radiologic “specialist” completely overlooked it and said it was fine…Go figure…lol.
On the winstrol, yeah it sure does…But my joint is now in good shape, and all the musculature is and always was actually solid as a rock. So I’m not too worried about it at the standard 50mg/day dose. Never say never though, and I’ll certainly watch things closely of course.
The only thing that took a hit was my acromioclavicular ligament, superior and/or inferior…One of which had to be cut in order to get in there and buzz down the end of said clavicle. The cool thing is that in the grand scheme of things, that particular ligament isn’t anywhere near the main stability enforcing component on the ac joint. Also, it was put back very expertly, and may well have reattached believe it or not. Especially in light of my initial rehab protocol, of gh and var which ran for about 2 months and a few days.
Anyway, long post there, but it’s hard to explain in a sentence or two, lol.
Thanks for the interest.
For the record, I was in the middle of a DC blast when the shit hit the fan fwtw. Go figure, heavy intense poundages, plus years of lifting, = distal clavicle osteolysis.
I’m sitting pretty good now though, and am quite happy with the surgeon and his skill set. Hope nobody else has to go through this shit though.
TB