My experience using IGF to treat Achilles Tendentious
First a little background. I ruptured my left Achilles 3 years ago playing basketball and had surgery. NOT FUN and about 14-16 months to fully recover. Now I have a partial tear and severe Tendentious in my right Achilles…SUCK. No surgery is required this time but I am very limited because of it. I went to my original Orthopedic Surgeon for treatment and went through a walking boot, Anti-Inflammatories the whole thing with little to no improvement over 8 weeks.
In my online research I came across many discussions and success stories of using IGF for recovery and healing, not being a stranger to injectables and wanting to solve this for good I decided to give IGF a try.
I am posting and will continue to post my results for others to review and hopefully benefit from as well as get any feedback from those reading.
My plan after some research is to take 40mcg per day on Monday, Wednesday and Friday alternating between calf and quad. So Monday take 20mcg in right calf in the morning and 20mcg in the left calf in the evening, same on Wednesday but in right and left quad, then Friday back to calf. The next week start with quad on Monday and repeat. I want to get the injections as close to the Achilles as possible without risking hitting anything to painful.
I am using Insulin needles for the injections. I received my shipment of IGF on 11/4 but since I did not have my Insulin needles yet and only had some 25x1” needles on hand I decided to start with a glut injection because I did not want to risk a large needle in my calf.
11/4 – 20mcg in the right glut in the morning, 20mcg in the left glut in the evening.
11/5 – Same as the day before
11/7 – Finally I have some Insulin needles so I went 20mcg in the left calf in the am and 20mcg in the right in the evening. Note: Despite the tendentious in my Achilles I am still cleared to ride my bike. This is the first day I have ridden since I started the IGF and I feel AWESOME. I am not sure if it is in my head or not but no pain in the Achilles and I got a good pump.
I decided to go 40mcg total every day for while to accelerate the healing of my Achilles.
11/8 - 20mcg in the left quad in the am and 20mcg in the right in the evening.
11/9 - 20mcg in the left calf in the am and 20mcg in the right in the evening.
11/10 - 20mcg in the left quad in the am and 20mcg in the right in the evening.
11/11 - 20mcg in the left calf in the am and 20mcg in the right in the evening.
11/12 - 20mcg in the left quad in the am and 20mcg in the right in the evening. Note: Using Insulin needles makes the direct muscle injecting very easy….virtually painless even in the calf and not a mark.
I still am having some pain in the tendon but it is primarily when I get up in the morning or after sitting at my desk for a while...it clearly gets tight and once it is stretched it is much better. I will say that the pain is SIGNIFICANTLY less already though.
I will keep posting every day or two as I go along....
First a little background. I ruptured my left Achilles 3 years ago playing basketball and had surgery. NOT FUN and about 14-16 months to fully recover. Now I have a partial tear and severe Tendentious in my right Achilles…SUCK. No surgery is required this time but I am very limited because of it. I went to my original Orthopedic Surgeon for treatment and went through a walking boot, Anti-Inflammatories the whole thing with little to no improvement over 8 weeks.
In my online research I came across many discussions and success stories of using IGF for recovery and healing, not being a stranger to injectables and wanting to solve this for good I decided to give IGF a try.
I am posting and will continue to post my results for others to review and hopefully benefit from as well as get any feedback from those reading.
My plan after some research is to take 40mcg per day on Monday, Wednesday and Friday alternating between calf and quad. So Monday take 20mcg in right calf in the morning and 20mcg in the left calf in the evening, same on Wednesday but in right and left quad, then Friday back to calf. The next week start with quad on Monday and repeat. I want to get the injections as close to the Achilles as possible without risking hitting anything to painful.
I am using Insulin needles for the injections. I received my shipment of IGF on 11/4 but since I did not have my Insulin needles yet and only had some 25x1” needles on hand I decided to start with a glut injection because I did not want to risk a large needle in my calf.
11/4 – 20mcg in the right glut in the morning, 20mcg in the left glut in the evening.
11/5 – Same as the day before
11/7 – Finally I have some Insulin needles so I went 20mcg in the left calf in the am and 20mcg in the right in the evening. Note: Despite the tendentious in my Achilles I am still cleared to ride my bike. This is the first day I have ridden since I started the IGF and I feel AWESOME. I am not sure if it is in my head or not but no pain in the Achilles and I got a good pump.
I decided to go 40mcg total every day for while to accelerate the healing of my Achilles.
11/8 - 20mcg in the left quad in the am and 20mcg in the right in the evening.
11/9 - 20mcg in the left calf in the am and 20mcg in the right in the evening.
11/10 - 20mcg in the left quad in the am and 20mcg in the right in the evening.
11/11 - 20mcg in the left calf in the am and 20mcg in the right in the evening.
11/12 - 20mcg in the left quad in the am and 20mcg in the right in the evening. Note: Using Insulin needles makes the direct muscle injecting very easy….virtually painless even in the calf and not a mark.
I still am having some pain in the tendon but it is primarily when I get up in the morning or after sitting at my desk for a while...it clearly gets tight and once it is stretched it is much better. I will say that the pain is SIGNIFICANTLY less already though.
I will keep posting every day or two as I go along....