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For the last 12 months i have been suffering with tendonitis in my elbow, which has been a nightmare trying to get any pressure on a ceiling, I had two cortisone injections both of which lasted about three days a piece, i was then prescribed some seriously strong pain killers which made it bearable, A chippy on site recommended a reverse polarity magnet in the form of a bracelet, looked pretty G** to me so i put it off, managed to find one that looks like a watch strap, and in three weeks of constant use it has gone completely.

AB

sounds good if it worked i used to get it a lot using sand +cement rendering and screeding or anything heavy to spread for that matter keep away from the injections if u can coz u can only have so many 3 or 4 i think... it does eventually ease off another good thing helps is throw the tools away and become plumber they only get it in their knee lol joke it is miserablke though i know where ur coming from ....painkillers ok for a while but the quack just getting u out of his hair if u know what i mean ...try the plastic trowel u can trowel it a bit softer dont need too much pressure polishing skimming the painters only moan coz got to give it more coats ...another thing to try is accupuncture worked for my sciatica and its the same sort of thing tendons and nerves only problem finding one good luck

Hello AB,

I fractured my wrist when I came through a ceiling a few years back... (dont ask) and I went to the docs 6 weeks later and they recommended a copper bracelet and that did he trick I bought one with the magnets in and it worked a treat...

I then got tennis elbow and was told to rest so I put the copper back on and that fixed it....

Now I am recovering from Dengue fever and I got tendonitus from teh drugs I was on and now I just were my copper full time now

Danny

Know where your coming from Micky, i had a maximum of three injections in my knee 8 years ago following a parachuting accident my knee is still numb now so god knows what it is they put in, didn't work on me elbow tho.

Horses for courses i think Danny, im wondering if its the old placebo effect !! still if it works. I was also told to rest mate, don't think they realize if your not out your not earning.

AB

I dont care whate effect as long as the pain goes or appears to go I am happy

unfortunatly doctors think we are as well off as them with big f**k off pensions and can sit on our arse recuperating they have never worked on piecework can just imagine the firing the patients through the clinic doors on £10 a patient turnaround ....might have a try of the copper bracelet my self next time i get tendonitis makes a change from 3 diethycodiene and 5 pints of cider (sleep ok though )guy i did my apprenticeship with many moons ago bullshitted an agent one friday with a sling on his arm told him he had to go for cortisone jab came back from pub about 8 beers later with sling on the other arm hehehe lol agent gave him the dont come monday had been playing pool with another spread and took sling off ....motto is i learnt from an old meastro classics the old school

i did my ankle 2 years ago playing footy, doc thought it was a bad sprain so i carried on working with it strapped up,everytime i knocked it slightly i would be in agony for weeks so i got a second opinion and found out i'd actually torn a ligament and the only way to solve it was get them to re tear it, stitch it back up and sit on my arse for 10 weeks, yeah right.

yeah another one is smart ass client oh u dont need a scaffold for that bit ill hold the ladder u put the hawk in ur mouth and do that bit at back of the chimney ....i always say yeah ok u sign this if i fall break anything u pay a grand a week untill everything hunky dory that normally gets scaffold put up ....too many people injure themselves fine when ur working in tescos and baked bean can falls on big toe and u got 6 months off but for us self employed just can get sick or injured ....back to the tendonitis i was at races and the stuff they rub on the horses muscles that would do the trick .....my mate reckons dont touch ur balls or eye after using it though....lol

Some Doctors will also give you a self adhesive bandaqe / Plaster there called pain patches.
They slowly relise anesthetic,very new to the market and very expensive so they most probably give you them unless you enquire and ask to try them,i have heard very very good results from these things by 2 pepole now.

micky77 said:

yeah another one is smart ass client oh u dont need a scaffold for that bit ill hold the ladder u put the hawk in ur mouth and do that bit at back of the chimney ....i always say yeah ok u sign this if i fall break anything u pay a grand a week untill everything hunky dory that normally gets scaffold put up ....too many people injure themselves fine when ur working in tescos and baked bean can falls on big toe and u got 6 months off but for us self employed just can get sick or injured ....back to the tendonitis i was at races and the stuff they rub on the horses muscles that would do the trick .....my mate reckons dont touch ur balls or eye after using it though....lol

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Your spot on micky,get the scaffold up

come on danny boy you have missed a trick here matey... start selling copper bands on here im sure you will sell a few

i'll buy one.

or use a trowel that does not need any water or much pressure to give a finish, and finish ceilings with a spat? i feel there will be less problems in the years to come.

copper works alright.. me right hand was broken 25 years ago was fine till bout 5 years ago then once a week swell up and throb like fook.missis works in chemists and give me a copper bracelet .after 2/3 weeks problem solved keep it on all the time...think shes gonna get one for me dick

an olive?

Just had another cortizone injection in the bottom of my heel (planter fashyitus)think thats what its called foooookin knacks

I had tennis elbow in my (skimming) right arm a few years back, I went to the doctors & after many pain killers & anti-inflammatorys he gave me acupuncture (western) (more on that later) well bugger me it worked!! Fast forward a few years.. 2 years ago my bloody left elbow (hawk arm) started to give me plenty of gip, went to the doctors & my old doc. has retired & no one else does acupuncture there. I had 2 cortisone injections & they didn't work at all, so I head off to find an acupuncturist. I ended up going to a Chinese place for a course of acupuncture. Well I had 3 sessions at £60 a throw but it never worked! The difference is Chinese acupuncture goes on meridians & lay lines & you end up looking like a pin cushion!! The western version use far fewer needles & then only around the affected area. What it does is, it actually damages the tissue around the effected painful area, then your body basically mends the newly damaged tissue stronger than it was before which obviously strengthens the original painful area!!
Well thats my medical lesson out the way!! Anyway to keep a short story long, I have been having physio on my elbow/arm for the past 9 or 10 weeks or so & have been told that its my 'ulnar nerve' either stiff or trapped!! I have since bought a 'TENS machine' which the physio's have been using about a week or so ago. I have only just started to feel any improvement so I think its going to be a long road to recovery for me at least!!
My physio told me that elbows are quite tricky to diagnose because what starts out as tennis elbow say can turn into something else ie; ulnar nerve pain which can turn into pain else where & then there can be so much what they call referred pain which can be else where!!!!!
Anyway I hope there is something that you can take from this very long winded account of my elbow woes?? :RpS_thumbup:

very good words thanx for that