Achilles Tendonitis

[Russ H]

I have been plagued by insertional Achilles tendonitis for 20 years. A used to run and assumed it was an overuse injury and that was it. Curiously it came on not long after my coeliac symptoms become more severe. This year when I went strictly gluten free, the tendonitis began to spontaneously disappear and returned when I went back on gluten for several weeks. Now it is starting to go again. Has anyone else experienced this? I found this study from Italy where half the newly diagnosed patients where found to have at least one enthesopathy (where tendon attaches to the bone) on diagnosis by ultrasound but this halved after at least one year gluten free.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24567238/

[trents]

That's fascinating! Thanks for sharing this. As time goes on we are discovering more and more medical issues related to celiac disease that no one would ever have suspected. An unhealthy gut makes for an unhealthy body.

[Jackie Garrett]

18 hours ago, trents said:

That's fascinating! Thanks for sharing this. As time goes on we are discovering more and more medical issues related to celiac disease that no one would ever have suspected. An unhealthy gut makes for an unhealthy body.

I totally agree Trents, I think we will soon find that through making changes to our diet, shifting from a diet that contains a lot of acidic things and that very much includes drinks Milk, Tea, Coffee, Alcohol, (a lot of peoples favourite things sadly, it all adds to accumulation in the body,  occasionally is probably ok) to a more alkaline way of eating and drinking  we will definitely improve our gut microbiome and I believe a longer healthier life,  it’s what worked and is still working for me. I have cut these things out and made swaps and occasionally I have Alcohol, a low sugar beer/ lager but not very often, Our bodies don’t like too much acid !!!

[Russ H]

It seems that coeliac can affect any part of the body. I used to have painful MTP joints in my feet, and that has resolved on its own. I also used to get chilblains on my toes and haven't had any this year even though my feet have been very cold and wet several times. I have not had dermatitis herpetiformis but I used to get intensely itchy bumps around my hips, knees, shoulders and rear hairline which came up looking like small insect bites and would blister and crust over. These have disappeared too.

Yes a healthy gut biome is important. Tim Spector in the UK has done good work on this.

[Jackie Garrett]

1 hour ago, Russ314 said:

It seems that coeliac can affect any part of the body. I used to have painful MTP joints in my feet, and that has resolved on its own. I also used to get chilblains on my toes and haven't had any this year even though my feet have been very cold and wet several times. I have not had dermatitis herpetiformis but I used to get intensely itchy bumps around my hips, knees, shoulders and rear hairline which came up looking like small insect bites and would blister and crust over. These have disappeared too.

Yes a healthy gut biome is important. Tim Spector in the UK has done good work on this.

I will look him up and see what he has done.
Thankyou Russell

[Scott Adams]

This is very interesting because when I was ~12 I was diagnosed with Achilles Tendonitis and had to have special shoe inserts made to lift my heel up to decrease the pain so that I could play on a soccer team. The pain could be severe, and the inserts didn't really work that well. It wasn't until my mid-twenties when I finally got diagnosed with celiac disease, but I'd almost completely forgotten about this until I saw your post. Obviously looking back it could have been related, and I already knew that I had celiac symptoms when I was younger like strange rashes. 

[Russ H]

Yes, I tried everything to cure my Achilles trouble. Nothing worked. It was very debilitating. It could just be coincidence, but I suspect a connection.