I have tendonitis too! Very long responce!
Hi Sharon,
Sorry to hear about your rupture. I hope it heals so surgery is not needed!!!
Here I thought I was all alone with tendonitis. I have tendonitis in both feet in all the major tendons and some of the minor ones along with achilles tendons. I also have it in both knees, the tendons that attach the knee cap. I can no longer stand on my tip toes, walking causes excruciating pain and I can’t rotate either foot side to side, going upstairs takes me forever because it hurts really bad (my toilet is upstairs, what a pain in the back side). Well, this list goes on and on and on! This has been going on since June 07 and I continue to hobble and shuffle to get around. Have you had difficulty getting to see an orthopedic doctor for your tendonitis prior to your rupture? With your tendonitis, what have your doctors done to help? I am at my wits end and I can’t understand why I can’t be referred or at least get an answer as to why they won’t refer me. Saying it won’t help is not an answer!! What evidence do they have that it won’t work? Can you enlighten me or someone else?
This is my story on the run around I get for what I consider to be basic treatment!
I have had cortisone injections in both feet, taking large doses of prednisone (60 mg a day) for 2 months and then decreased, anti-inflammatories, codeine and morphine. Still the pain continues. I can not get referred to orthopedics. My GP feels it is up to the rheumatologist and my rheumatologist thinks she can cure it. I saw her on Tuesday and she is insisting that orthopedics it not the way to go. I am on Methotrexate 25mg and she has just restarted the plaquenil. She has said there is too much tendonitis that has calcified and fibrosed to be surgically repaired and said casts won’t work. She wants me to re-start my prednisone but I said no because it made no difference to my feet or just slightly compared to the side effects. I am a nurse and I can no longer work. I loved my job and I find it really hard to get my head around all this and yes I am upset and discouraged. Anyway, she feels that I am angry and depressed and if I was less angry and not depressed then I would have a higher pain tolerance. I have done research papers on pain and yes, what she says is true, however, I am not depressed and my family and friends also agree that I am not depressed. I told the rheumatologist that a dog would not be allowed to continue on with this, they would be put down. I have even asked her to have both my feet amputated and she thinks I am being unrealistic and silly. I can’t work or walk, if my feet were gone then I would prosthetic feet and be rehabbed and then able to walk and work again. Is this really unrealistic when you consider that nothing will work to repair the feet and knees?
