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Gluteal tendinopathy - endless pain - losing my mind
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Just wondering if you've found anything to relieve the pain yet. I'm seeing my physio on Tuesday and she's going to show me how to use a TENS machine. Have you tried one? The pain is really making me depressed and tearful and not being able to sit or lie without intense pain is so difficult. I'm starting to feel this is never going to go away. How are you getting on?
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@lynmen
Hi. Have not tried a TENS machine. Please let me know if it helps. Besides tylenol, some advil, gabapentin...I'm now on duloxetine. Also trying some oral CBG/CBD and some CBD salve. Pain a little less today, but hard to tell what's helping, and it never completely goes away. Totally get the depressed and tearful thing. I'm so sorry you're going through that. The duloxetine is supposed to help with depression as well as the pain. I hope so. And yes, feels like it will never go away. Totally ruins one's life, right? Waking up every day to another day of pain. It's pretty miserable.
Good luck, and let's stay in touch.
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@lynmen
Hi there, and I'm so sorry you've having such pain. I got relief by carefully doing specific isometric exercises as well as SLOWLY doing reps, in addition to Shock Therapy (i.e., EPAT: Extracorporeal Pulse Activation Technology), which turned the corner for me, allowing me to walk with no or minimal pain. And, you've got to be patient; my gluteal tendinopathy started 13 months ago after my first and only COVID episode, of which I feel it's a sequela.