What can be causing widespread tendon damage throughout my body

im 100% positive you took Levaquin or Cipro antibiotic. Check your health records. Thats the the only way that this sort of thing can happen. it it happened to me also and I'm really sorry.

here here are some things you need to do right now...

1. never take a corticosteroid again in your life.
2. never take a fluoroquinolone antibiotic again in your life.
3. You might need to find a doctor that will work with you using human growth hormone or deca. if you're still too young for a doctor to approve that because of your age then you might consider having platelet rich plasma treatment or stem cell injections. these things are very expensive I wish you the best of luck in finding the money to do it. youre looking at $2000 - $10,000 per treatment.
4. you could also try growth hormone secretagogue which cost less money. you might want to also look into bpc-157 and tb500. HGH shots cost about $1000 per month , secretagogues cost $200-$300 per month. Deca might be $100 per month. bpc 157 and tb 500 run about $200 per treatment.
5. look for hormone doctors that are in to regenerative medicine.
6. raising your intracellular magnesium levels can help some but it's not going to fix you. you will probably also need to take a good B-Complex like b supreme to ramp up your methylation to help you detox and feel better.
7. there's a non-drowsy muscle relaxer that you can get called skelaxin . you could get that from your primary care physician or from a rheumatologist. this medication will buy you time until you can work on healing some. I know it hurts really bad but you've got to try to stretch as much as you can stand it. this is going to help you a lot. you also need to be going to massage therapy once a month or more. if massage therapy is too expensive you might be able to find a gym that does a water massage (machine) as part of its subscription. you can also look into local massage schools that are trying to try a new massage therapists, they will be giving massages for much less money.

Are you also having stiff muscles? I have overstrained my forearms and hands this winter. Had to stop renovating totally mid April.

At night, especially my left forearm, hand and ringfinger and pinky finger get absolutely numb and ice cold!! And pale. The elbow hurts as well. All my tendons hurt and make sounds. Can't bend any fingers on both hands except the tumb for one hour in the morning!!

If I lift things like plates or milk with my left hand it gets all numb.

The Physio said it might be compartment. The doc haven't heard of it under those circumstances. Got no x-rays or anything. Just some ok blood tests.

Got an exercise program from the Physio, stretching and up and down movements without any weight. It gets worse.

QUESTION:

How would you know it's tendinitis / tendonitis or muscle compartment syndrome? Could it be both? They ask ME what I have.

/Ken

Not sure what the moderator deleted... Levaquin hurts people. Good talk.

Hi,

I know this thread is like 2 years old. But I have had similar severe widespread tendinitis after a round of Cipro antibiotics many years ago. I was almost bed bound initially. My wrist, hip, jaw, feet, and back were affected. My wrist blew up like a balloon and only an Enbrel/methotrexate combo reduced my symptoms. My wrist problems still come back to plague me at times and I've been experiencing some pain there lately as well as the jaw. It's never been as bad as the first blow up and I fortunately weaned off the heavy medications before this whole pandemic started.

I just wanted to connect with all of you, share stories, symptoms, what treatment works, etc. Every doctor I've seen has been baffled. It's great to know there are others like me!

Thanks.

-Becky

BTW, my rheumatologist suspected issues with the tendons/tendon insertion points and a recent MRI of my wrist confirmed chronic severe tenosynovitis after a couple years of this swelling.

It's totally manageable pain level now without medication. But it'd be nice to solve it/reduce flare ups. Chronic and increases with increased activity.

BTW, my rheumatologist suspected issues with the tendons/tendon insertion points and a recent MRI of my wrist confirmed chronic severe tenosynovitis after a couple years of this swelling.

It's totally manageable pain level now without medication. But it'd be nice to solve it/reduce flare ups. Chronic and increases with increased activity.

All your symptoms sound so familiar. I don't understand where this came from. I did go thru some antibiotic treatment for UTI's a while back. I don't remember if I can correlate the symptoms with the antibiotic treatment but it is possible.

i don't understand how i can hurt so bad all over my body. Did HGH help? I'm at the point i will try anything at just about any cost. It does give me some solice that I'm not going crazy. This is a real thing!

Has anyone found anything that can help? My Achillies tendons have been constantly hurting for over a year now. I used to be so active. I'm having a very difficult time with all the pain. How do you all deal with it? COVID and this too? I've only been going thru this for almost 2 years but i don't know that i can tolerate this forever. The pain is awful. I can't ride my horse without horrible pain. How do you guys do it?

It's a few years since your original post. Have you found any relief?

I've been having problems on & off for years; in a flare up now.

Although I don't know the root cause, for me, it's aggravated by diet. Curious to know if anyone else has a diet connection?

I was eating super healthy for months feeling great. Past few months have not eaten so healthily and tendons flaring up badly, among other issues.

Oddly enough, tea is a major suspect. Last year I switched from coffee to matcha & black teas and my body has been out of whack in different ways. Took me months to suspect the teas as they are "anti-inflammatory". However, found a thread with people having reactions to earl grey, black and green teas. Also found some matcha warnings based on the region the matcha comes from.

"Sulfa" category drug caused a major acute episode some years back. Under known allergies I now list Sulfa.

The teas, dairy, gluten? ... Something in the diet is causing/aggravating my symptoms. I'll have to go back to healthy foods and find another alternative to caffeine altogether.

I am suffering from a similar problem, although I am over 50 and in my case it developed slowly.

It started with tennis elbow, which makes sense because I played tennis and I am a computer programmer; both are known to cause tendonitis

Then I got a golf elbow, then right shoulder tendonitis, then my legs and finally the left shoulder...

In my case my condition actually gets better when I play padel or ride a bicycle; it seems my tendons are shrinking automatically and I have to stretch these constantly.

Stretching indeed helps; if I don't stretch a week, the pain returns.

I was born with atopic dermatitis, and have been using cortisone cream all my life. I occasionally had to take cortisone pills as well. Some claim that in the long term, cortisone can weaken tendons.

My doctor just claims that I have a "stressful body", and that I have to do exercises to counteract against it.

Lately I have been using an O2 ring to measure oxygen in my blood. I am not sure, but it seems that some correlation exists between oxygen levels dropping and tendon pain.

I also tend to hyperventilate, and have mild sleep apnea.

And finally I also caught Lyme disease in my 30s, but that was treated quickly with a very high doses of antibiotics.

Not sure if this information helps you at all; I have no solution, and don't know what is really causing it.

Hi there. Is this discussion still continuing?

I'm curious, as I I think I have the same.

I, too, am having serious pain in various tendons. Mornings are the worst. If I am in bed for a couple hours, it becomes difficult to even pull the sheet over myself. It started with b/l adhesive capsulitis (went through rt shoulder surgery and 22 weeks of PT sessions w/little relief). It progressed to my inner elbows (cubitus area, especially laterally and upon supination and pronation); anterior hips; just inferior to the b/l glutes; just superior to the b/l popliteal area as well as anterior/superior part of the knees. Now, most recently, there is much pain when I flex my Lt wrist; there is no pain with wrist extension. Seen a Rheum, Neuro, and Pain specialist - the only one who can help is the pain doc with norco. I would like to know what's happing to my body. All started after contracting Covid in Nov. 2020. These symptoms began about2 months post covid and continue today. Any ideas out there. Very depressing to have such pain.

i found this by chance! i have been dealing with tendonitis everywhere for years. i am 44 female. i have been in physical therapy from my neck to my feet. when i think back to my 20's i had symptoms but nothing that would have tipped me off back then like it does now. my brother is 41 and deals with some of the same but not as much as i do. i have been tested for systemic issues, rheumatoid issues, blood test do not show inflammation markers. Xrays, MRIs all show everything is normal. i am not in the best shape. i use to walk 3 miles a day no issues, then achilles tendonitis kicked in bad and put a halt on all my exercise. this was about 2014. after a few years of dealing with that, miraculously i dont have any chronic tendonitis in my Achilles anymore. thank goodness but ive developed it everywhere else. right now i have been dealing with lateral epicondyle tendonitis in my left arm, almost a year now. its at its worst now. Im getting MRI on that next week, im sure it will be normal. i have had 2 cortisone injections as well. this is probably one of the worst i have dealt with in years because its so painful. im losing strength in my arm daily and its radiating to my wrist. i have tenderness in so many places as well. my dr suspects fibromyalgia, but hasnt officially diagnosed and thats fine with me because i dont want the diagnosis so its just something to blame everything for.i feel in a way my tendon issues are more from an undersuse standpoint-- to a certain extent. I dont normally mow my lawn, i did once this summer and my shoulder still hurts from pulling to start it... about 3 months ago. i figure its a tendon issue. but if i start up a new exercise regimen, ill develop tendonitis somewhere.

i just happened across this forum googling something different. i have never read anything that i could completely relate to, but this i could so i had to join in 😃

i also have taken bactrim / fluoroquinolones medicine in the past and wondered if there was a link there.

Taking a fluoroquinolone antibiotic can cause tendon damage.

Oh my goodness, I could almost cry happy tears just reading that others are also experiencing this! Not that I wish anybody to have to deal with day to day pain of this condition, I am just over joyed to read I'm not mad, I'm not being a over-dramatic female (which is how some people and drs at times have made me feel). Just loved relating and reading all your comments and journeys with this. I am a 35year old mum of 3. always been a tad overweight but always been active. i don't drive and walk absolutely everywhere. my job also involves being on my feet constantly and walking and well being a mum when I get home it just doesn't stop. There is not much time for rest. I started getting tendon pain in the rotator cuff, pain so bad, you couldn't lift your arm, even pull your trousers up without getting that sharp nasty pain. It would linger for a few days then get better then come back. so many days off work. called drs. Bloods done, low vitamin D is the only thing that flags up. Fair enough, Definitely something I've always over-looked, vitamins. so I start taking the recommended dose of them. I hear they take a few weeks even months to start working. In the meantime, the tendon pain is now in my wrist, joint swells up like a ball, then goes to my fingers. I do thank the lord it seemed to have skipped my elbow but I've had niggles. I think at the time this surely just can't be vitamin D. at this point with shoulder, wrist and fingers, its pretty much taken my quality of living away. And mums cant break! i need to function! I spend my days, crying because i cant do things and the kids just don't understand why I can't be as efficient for them or angry that i cant squeeze a shampoo bottle!!!. So I go back to Dr. I have to push them alot because they insist I'm to young for arthritis etc. But they do rheumatology bloods and give me x-rays. Great! please please show something!. But no. All fine. Nothing comes up. After this point I get the tendons go in my knees and the balls of my feet! Balls of your feet!!!!! Well, now I get out of bed in the mornings and can barely walk, and have even fallen over more then twice. Back to the Drs! "Please, please help me!" they put me on NSAID's. Don't really help with the pain but least my joints don't swell. They also referred me for physio therapy, the waiting list is long, I've been waiting 8 weeks so far. In the last 2 weeks, new tendons keep popping up to ruin my life lol. I read someone else had it in the jaw (me too!) Newest one came up today, can't move my head left and right or up and down because the shoulder blade kills!!!! I just feel so down, I feel like I'm not the same person I was. like I said I was always a tad overweight. This has been going on for 7months now. And I feel the lack of Mobility and the stress has just added pounds to me. I've still continued to work but lighter duties, I hear it is still important to move. I just can't seem to rest enough. I've currently had 7weeks off work this year, signed off by drs, here n there. I can't lose the money with Christmas coming. Lastly I just wanted to express how good it was for me to get this all out and write it down, equally reading all of your situations too. i think friends and family and anyone I've moaned to think I'm laying it on thick. And are sick of hearing about it, especially my partner, who hasn't been as supportive as he could have been. If he could just feel what I feel daily. So is tendonitis really a wide spread thing? They ruled out infection and everything. I thought tendonitis was regional, and people my just get it in one or 2 places? I Google the most crazy things, is inflammation contagious to other parts of the body? like how the hell did I get this everywhere!!? it's like my whole body broke all at once.