Tendonitis

[rachelmanija]

Specifically, medial epycondylitis aka "golfer's elbow." Both elbows, worse in the left.

Yes, I am seeing a doctor and doing occupational therapy. However, it keeps flaring up, probably because it is not possible for me to not type for weeks on end (even if I cut out all non-work typing-- it's the work typing that's the big problem.) And when I do manage to cut down on typing, I still have to wash dishes and lift stuff and talk on the phone and otherwise use my elbows.*

Has anyone found any supplements or other forms of supplementary treatment that are helpful? I'm already taking glucosamine/chondroitin.

*I am considering getting a phone headset. Has anyone else found that this made anough of a difference to be worthwhile?

*I am very, very, very reluctant to try voice-activated software. For reasons that are too long to type out, it would also be impossible to use for at least sixty percent of everything I do, and would only cut out one of about forty steps of everything else I do.

Comments

[jonquil.livejournal.com]

Take paper cup. Fill with water. Stick popsicle stick in. Put in freezer.

Once a day, ice down your elbows along the tendon until they are cold to the touch.

Not fun, but it helps. (This was prescribed by my OT when I came down with my now-chronic tendinitis.)

[(Anonymous)]

Second the ice. Also you can just get those blue freeze things and take one out and wrap it in a dishcloth. Ice for 20 minutes at a stretch, no more--the blue things are no longer frozen by then.