My experience using IGF to treat Achilles Tendentious

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....

Thats really interesting but not surprising. Ive read studies on IGF having to do with with it's regenerative properties including nerve damage, muscle wasting, treatments for cushings syndrome and various other benefits to injuries and illnesses. I read an article where IGF was used to treat bells palsy ( Nerve damage, to the 7th cranial nerve, that causes partial paralysis to one side of the face)
when it was in the late stages and considered permanent and IGF was administered and patients recovered fully. When administered to early stages of Bells palsy subjects recovered in 1-2 weeks.

IGF is most def a valuable tool for overall health, regeneration, healing and cosmetic as we know.

IGF/stacked with insulin or/and anabolics (Therapeutic doses) can make healing certain injuries even more effective.

nice

11/14 – Ok here is where my program goes bad (MY FAULT). I had my evening injection on the 13th right BEFORE my calf work out….bad bad bad, dumb dumb dumb. I read that you inject after you workout but in my inexperience I did before. When I woke up on the 14th (the next morning) I had incredible swelling and tightness in the calf that caused some pretty good amounts of pain. We all know that your calf gets a very good pump anyway and that if you work them hard enough the soreness can make you a little stiff….this experience was like that times 1000. The swelling extended all the way to my ankle, walking was nearly impossible (with a severe limp and grimacing). The muscles was to tight that I would spend the whole day stretching but if I sat for 5 minutes it would immediately tighten up again.

Here is an excerpt from a post on this subject about what is going on with my muscles. (Thanks Cyphon)

Figure it this way, you just injected fluid into a muscle at rest, you forced that amount of liquid into that muscle that was not normally present...Your muscle is tense and attempting to dissipate that liquid...

Not to mention it might have a reaction to BA, to the gear you are using etc, etc..It might form a lump or abscess...Now you are now exerting that muscle, with that additional fluid, and the muscle is now growing even larger from the blood and the muscle pump you are getting.

Now the pressure is even higher. Now you are possibly causing bruising inside, stressing the hell out of the muscle, and breaking blood vessels, etc, etc...

Now you go to rest...too late, it is swollen!! AND PAINFUL!! Ice it, heat it, take ibuprofen, and stay off it, you will be fine, give it a few days.

The lesson here – NEVER INJECT INTO A MUSCLE BEFORE A WORKOUT!!! Always after…whew if only I had know or paid more attention. I won’t make that mistake again.

11/17 – So here I am 4 days later. The leg is still swollen and tight although I am clearly on the downhill side of this issue. Today is the first day I can walk normally and the swelling is noticeably down. I figure by the end of the week I will be completely over this. I have not taken any injections of IGF since the 13th. I am going to wait until I get the swelling go down and wait to start back up until I can get back to my normal training schedule. Whew this has been a rough few days! I will post again when I am back on track. I hope this helps someone from repeating this mistake.

On a positive note my Achilles Tendentiousis doing MUCH better I am sure due to the IGF since that is the only change in my routine in the last 12 weeks of fighting it. Hopefully I can get back on track soon and get to workout out again.

Do you think spot injecting makes a big difference over say a sub-q shot in the stomach or intramuscular in the arm or something......I know its great for spot gains......I evened my arms out on it but for Healings sake do you think this works better than just a stomach sub-q shot? have you tried?

Great post BTW. Im always interested in IGF's healing powers.

I am not sure....I went for spot injecting for two reasons. 1) I wanted to get the IGF as close as possible to the injury site. 2) I am a big bicycle rider/racer and triathlete and I figured that the IGF would give me some good gains in power and endurance for my legs.

I am going to review my injection sites and maybe stick with quads and a sub-q shot. I will likely avoid the calf for a while and maybe all together.

Keep us updated this is a great post. Thanks man.