swiftfox, I have had very similar symptoms but have been unable to get a diagnosis of any sort. It started up about three years ago with a bad attack that left my lower arms and hands unusable and started down my lower left leg. The intensity subsided after about a week. over the last few years I've had similar attacks of less intensity but I don't think the affected tendons have ever healed properly from the initial attack. The tendonitis has progressively spread to different areas of my body. So far I have it in my wrists, forearms, elbows, shoulders, arches of feet, hips, and most recently knees. I also developed a strange visual issue and ringing in the ears about that same time but Im not sure if these symptoms were stress induced from worrying I had various diseases. Multitude of blood tests, MRIs and xrays came up negative. I gave up and have just been trying to ignore it for the last year or so. If you make any discoveries, please let me know.
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These sound like my symptoms - tendinitis/tendinosis in knees, elbows, hands, hips, and sometimes shoulders, and one of my ankles even got into the act at one point. Plus I dislocated both kneecaps within a three-month period, and also have some muscle cramps but I don't know if that's related. It all started about two years ago, and I'm 31 now.
I've also been to lots of doctors and had lots of tests but they keep coming back negative. Has anyone gotten a diagnosis for anything like this at all? It just seems like the connective tissue is weakened and/or not healing well, but no one seems to have any ideas why this might be the case. Meems, your ideas sound like possibilities for sure - but are there other conditions that could cause this as well?
Also, has anyone found any meds, exercises or other therapies that have helped treat this kind of pain? I am trying to keep in shape but my physical therapist keeps telling me to stop doing whatever it is I'm doing (biking, strengthening, swimming, etc.) as soon as I start getting substantial pain. I'm getting ultrasound therapy for my elbows right now and kinesiotaping the heck out of them but I don't think that's helping.
Also, meems, I might lay off the naproxen if I were you. I had about a 6-month period of really bad pain flareups, and in retrospect I think the severity might have been due to doping myself up with high doses of naproxen. When I found out that naproxen interferes with collagen deposition (and hence healing) I went off it, and though the pain continued the episodes after that were not as severe. Anyhow, it's just an idea.
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