Thread: bicep tear

just had my knee scoped and yesterday had mri on my left elbow. doc calls today around 9am and tells me my bicep is being help on by a small piece of scar tissue. fuck me i don't have time for this shit! scheduled for surgery tomorrow around 12 to get repaired. he said 6-8 weeks with no lifting. wanted to hear some real world experience from others who've had this done.

thanks

i know right, i'm a fucking hard head. lol luckily the doc that's doing mine is a childhood class mate and knows everything i do.... he said jokingly to lay off the tren! i guess i'll clean up my diet and maybe do some treadmill time until i'm released. fuck this is going to be a long gotdamn summer

Tore my right Bicep completely Off down @ elbow (did not have Ins @ the time so had to wait 30days to see Doc).

Anyhow surgery was not bad, released next day, removed my soft-cast myself wk2 and started squeezing soft stuff like nerf balls + slowly moving/getting range of motion back (don't forget bicep supinates forearm). I know forearm muscles squeeze but it helped me.- slowly + carefully working my way to squeezing more challenging stuff and doing bicep curls with 3-5lb. (about 4-6wks)

One point I did not use any of the pain killers or anti-inflammatory med's (after Hosp) - so I could feel it + not do too much or re-injure.

(They remove soft-cast + put u in a metal cast/brace where u can dial in dif range's of motion. - I never really wore the brace)

By the time they removed the cast + stitches + sent me to physical therapy they where amazed that I had 100% range of motion + some strength.

In physical Therapy they only let me use 3-5lb for curls but by then I was slowly increasing weight - nothing amazing just slow + safe.

U will bounce back quick + I feel no concern's about my right bicep tendon just as strong if not stronger (I would have had the left detached + reattached @ the same time if I knew that)
Except my scar looks like someone tried to cut my arm off (my fault forgot to tell Doc I was allergic to latex + they used latex stitches? - see ladies I was not lying

Good Luck + feel free to ask me any quest

damn lol not exactly the news i wanted to hear! jk

i wasn't really expecting to have physical therapy, is that the norm? he never mentioned it in any of our conversations, soft cast either? oh well i really have no options now. i appreciate your input bro

Hope for a speedy recovery. Oh ask ur doctor for a script of gh to " speed up the healing process " lol

Actually got off gh about a month ago, but thinking about getting back on soon


thank you

Surgery done. Feeling no pain at the moment. Doc said things went good