# What's been your experience with tendonitis? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 27, 2006, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-been-your-experience-with-tendonitis/362385 "2006-06-27T20:23:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Runs\_With\_Scissors](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/278dde/32.png) [@Runs\_With\_Scissors](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Runs_With_Scissors)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2006, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-been-your-experience-with-tendonitis/362385/1 "2006-06-27T20:23:27Z")
Aaaargh, I’m so mad. I’ve been lifting weights and swimming for about seven months now. This is because I can’t run or bike…because of my F-ing knees and ankles. So…I go slowly. I increase gradually. Then BAM. F-ing tendonitis in my right elbow. I don’t think swimming and lifting caused it per se. A week and a half ago, I rented a huge hedge trimmer. I could barely hold the thing at the height necessary. But, a week later…bam. And, of course, I use my right arm for…everything. Naturally, everything exacerbates (hee hee…right arm…exacerbate) it, especially using a mouse. A mouse! I also play guitar, do tons of yard work, etc. Doctor says ice, advil, and rest for three weeks. If that works, awesome. It’s only three weeks. But every other F-ing joint in my body is chronically injured with no end in sight, gee, wtf not my elbow? How 'bout you? I need some hope here. ---
**Author:** ![Burrido](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@Burrido](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Burrido)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2006, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-been-your-experience-with-tendonitis/362385/2 "2006-06-28T12:06:09Z")
I’ve had it in my wrists for about 2 years now. Finally got a series of cortisone shots and they’re pretty much back to normal now. ---
**Author:** ![Seren](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e19adc/32.png) [@Seren](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seren)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2006, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-been-your-experience-with-tendonitis/362385/3 "2006-06-28T13:44:50Z")
Minor tendonitis in my big toe. I have no idea how it happened. It only acts up if I wear high heels a couple days in a row or if I fence or do some other activity that requires a lot of weight on my toes. Resting for a couple weeks does help. It goes back to feeling normal and then I’ll end up aggravating it again. ---
**Author:** ![Enright3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/enright3/32/2897_2.png) [@Enright3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enright3)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2006, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-been-your-experience-with-tendonitis/362385/4 "2006-06-28T17:03:52Z")
Had it in my elbow. It took a good 6 mos to a year to get rid of. Only after I began doing the exercises religiously did it go away. I still have occasional tenderness, so I guess it’s still not totally gone. I was lucky in that it was my right elbow, and I carried a dumbbell in my car and did my exercises while driving using my center console as an exercise platform. ---
**Author:** ![YaWanna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/bbce88/32.png) [@YaWanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YaWanna)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2006, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-been-your-experience-with-tendonitis/362385/5 "2006-06-28T17:42:45Z")
My experience: it sucks. Both my wrists, for the last, oh, 12 or 13 years. I have taken to wearing wrist braces to bed, to keep from curling my wrists when I sleep. I should go back to the doctor, but I have so much going on right now that I will wait until at least August when things settle down.