Shoulder is out. What to do now?

[Spidey]

I have had a reoccuring problem in my shoulders for the past 10 years or so. It flares up for a few weeks at a time and then seems to go away. I went to an orthopedist yesterday and he thinks I have a torn labrum. I have an MRI scheduled in a couple of weeks that will confirm the diagnosis. If I do indeed have a torn labrum, it will require surgery and four weeks in a sling. I think it likely that another few weeks will be needed before I can work out.

I have not been able to workout chest or shoulders for three weeks already because of this problem. I have been trying to workout legs and back once or twice a week and have kept up my diet. I haven't lost any weight yet but I'm getting worried.

I just finished a 11 week cycle on 11/4 so I can't start another one until January 20. I have enough HGH for a 4 month cycle at 4 IU's a day. Is HGH anticatabolic enough to stave off weight loss due to not being able to work out? I could start the HGH in a week and run it for the 4 months and start another 8 to 10 week tren/test prop cycle in late January.

What do you think I should do here to avoid losing my gains? Anybody have some ideas?

-Spidey

 

[Spidey]

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[Zyglamail]

First off MRI's will likely not confirm anything. There have been studies done in regards to the accuracy of an MRI. Of the patients those that expressed pain a good portion (roughly half) had no identifiable damage via an MRI. Of those in the study reporting no pain roughly half showed serious damage via the MRI.

Additionally, torn tendons.ligament, unless totally seperated more often than not do NOT require sugery.

If your serious about recovery and dont want to be in a sling goto prolonews.com and do some reading. You can also search for a doc in your area. You may be a perfect candidate for prolo and find that surgery is overkill and likely still will not fix the problem. Tears often accompany strains/sprains and simply attacheing torn section will do nothing for the joint laxity. As long as the laxity remains pain will persist. Fix the laxity you can go back about your biz and get back to lifting. SUrgery wont fix the laxity.

 

[Spidey]

Thanks Zyglamail. I bookmarked the prolo page to read more carefully later. I'm not so sure Prolo will help though. I believe this is an old injury and if this is a torn labrum that has been torn for ten years, injections of growth hormone in that area will not heal the tear. Surgery will be required. On the good side, it's not a complicated procedure and has a very high success rate.

From the webpage, it looks like they just inject HGH and/or other growth factors into the tendons and ligaments. I wonder what the potential sides are if one is already taking exogenous HGH.

-Spidey