[Brody Johnson]

Hello,

I've been a long time mitigator of tendonitis, but after an extremely stressful year (father dying of brain cancer) I believe something systemic has been triggered and the symptoms are ramping up. If anyone has some ideas on directions to travel or doctors to see I would love to start treating this ghost.

I'll try to keep it relatively short...

It started with insomnia, sinus issues and a dry cough as well as muscle tightness and the inability of muscle recovery after physical exercise: rock climbing, snow kiting, mountain biking, jogging, hiking long distances and play-boating. All of these activities have been diminished to the occasional light bike or walk as everything seems to trigger tendonitis in both arms, ITBS and bursitis in vastus lateralis and hips.

Recently, it seems that physical therapy helps the tendon and bursitis issues somewhat but because the muscle recovery is still a week long process, even from light exercise, I've realized treating tendonitis is treating the symptoms. I do have a few things under control. My insomnia has been under control thanks to magnesium and calcium (miracle supplements) and I've bumped up other supplements: B12/6 and Vit D3. My already healthy diet has been augmented, but the symptoms are increasing.

Recently, the last couple of months, I've been getting ill more often (fever, sinus, cough), neck aches, head aches, crashing for no reason (naps don't help), mental and physical fatigue, other muscle aches, tendonitis flare ups, sore hands, dry cough in the morning, depression that I cannot harness, and oddly itch skin.

I am a 35 year old male with low body fat and am generally very fit. My genes, physique and drive should allow me to do far more physically than I've been able to do, making this undiagnosable ghost ever the more frustrating.

I will be going headfirst into healthcare in September, but wanted to have a little direction as to what it might be for research purposes or whether I should see a rheumatologist, Lyme literate medical doctor, neurologist, nutritionist or a naturopathic doctor. I've seen many general physicians who cannot figure it out.

Any ideas you can contribute would be awesome.

Thank you kindly and I hope your health is great or improving,

Brody

[Jomar]

Where are the tendonitis symptoms located?
Arms , legs both equally?

Can you list what has been firmly ruled out so far?
I'm assuming they did a MRI or some kind of imaging to rule in/out anything that way.

If you have been in a Lyme area I would make sure to get the best testing to check that out.

If you already went to many MDs and got no help, I would tend to look for a very experienced, highly rated naturopathic doctor and give them a try.

[Brody Johnson]

Thank you for the reply. The tendonitis is bilateral in the arms, golfers elbow or medial epicondylitis. It is also bilateral in the quads or vastus laterals and in the ITB. However, I only have it in my right hip.

I suspected Lyme, but wanted to get some other points of view prior to mentioning it. I have been tested for Lyme numerous times and nothing popped on the tests. The tests were the quality tests. Also, I have been thinking of a naturopathic avenue; so, your insights have reinforced mine. I will be making an appointment with a naturopathic MD, who is also a LLMD. I will be getting in ASAP, I cannot wait until September when my new healthcare kicks in.

If anyone has any questions or curiosities about my situation or your situation please let me know.

Thank you,

Brody

[Jomar]

Do they have testing that proved tendinitis or are they just calling it that?
Do you have any neck pain or tightness in the upper back at all?
If so you might explore our thoracic outlet syndrome forum (TOS) for short.
http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/forum24.html


With all the activities you have done were there any falls, hits or injuries?
If that is a possibility--
You might consider seeing a few expert & skilled chiropractors??
If nothing else to get opinions?
We can easily get out of alignment and that will strain our muscles & tendons.

The chiro I found used many modalities as well as adjustments - low level laser, IF stim, ultrasound.. wasn't painful or scary at all.

He helped my issues much more than the many PT places I went to.
RSI/TOS with some chronic myofascial issues..

TOS is often not well known by most MDs, so could be cubital tunnel/golfers elbow etc - or might be TOS, or TOS like if the cause/compression is higher up in the neck/collarbone areas. If hyper mobile that can be a factor too.

And if the spine (also c1/c2 ) has been misaligned for quite awhile the body will try to rebalanced itself by tilting hips, shoulders etc and that can cause upper & lower body pains..

www.upcspine.com

But all the imaging & blood work is often needed to rule out those solid testable things first.
But it doesn't hurt to have the mechanical side of things checked into.
Most MDs won't mention that.. unless something is so obvious that it shows visually or on imaging..