Celiac Disease & Weaked Tendons?

[Dlapham celiac & DH]

I Have had both shoulders repaired in the past 2 years. Right side was the superaspinatus tendon, and the left side had that plus the bicepts tendon. I had the left one done on 4/5/06 and the right one in Feburary 2004. Has anyone seen or have any information about the effect of celiac disease on tendons? As my personal information shows, I have had symptoms almost all my life and I am almost 60 years old.

Thanks for any response.

[Moongirl]

I have rotator cuff tendonitis.....i went to physical therapy for almost 2 months, but the pain never seemed to go away. It felt really weak and sore even if i carried my purse.

After going gluten-free believe it or not about a month later....no more pain. i had it for over 3 years, then boom, gluten-free and no pain....

[Mango04]

I had tendonitis constantly when I was eating gluten. I was also doing lots of ballet, so it's hard to tell what actually caused it. Hmmm...interesting...

[ravenwoodglass]

I Have had both shoulders repaired in the past 2 years. Right side was the superaspinatus tendon, and the left side had that plus the bicepts tendon. I had the left one done on 4/5/06 and the right one in Feburary 2004. Has anyone seen or have any information about the effect of celiac disease on tendons? As my personal information shows, I have had symptoms almost all my life and I am almost 60 years old.

Thanks for any response.

I haven't seen anything written on it but I do know that I get a lot less dislocations now that I am gluten free. I have hypermobile joints and dislocate easily and have had a couple ligament and tendon repairs myself. In my case I think this comes from excess fluid in the joints, this fluid also caused arthritis damage mostly to my hands but all movement caused pain pre gluten-free. A lot of us are diagnosed with fibro also so I think this stuff just wrecks havoc with all the fluids coursing through our bodies.

[Fiddle-Faddle]

Wow, this is fascinating--I had a dislocated shoulder, with torn supraspinatus and infraspinatus tendons, plus torn glenoid labrum. This was in January, and it is healing so s-l-o-w-ly, it's extremely frustrating.

I'm writing a blog about the recovery process--if anybody is interested, my latest post is at Open Original Shared Link. It's not very well set-up, though--you have to kind of hunt for the previous posts instead of their automatically coming up with the latest post.

Anyway, if any of you who have experience with shoulder recovery have any suggestions or comments about what I've written, PLEASE post them!!! (There's a comment space on the blog--I'd love to have more comments!)

I've been trying to think of a way to work the celiac thing into the blog, anyway, especially if I can present it in a way that nobody thinks I'm a total hypochondriac (sound familiar?). My colleagues are already giving me grief about the dislocated shoulder; they seem to think I'm just taking a vacation!

We just can't win, can we?

[Nancym]

I have tendon, muscle and joint issues and was recently diagnosed with Ankylosing Spondylitis. My rheumatologist said a lot of his AS patients also have gluten sensitivity. I'm doing really well with the drug he put me on, sulfasalazine. It has helped my gut and my tendons.

[Guinevere]

I have terrible tendon problems. In shoulder, elbows, wrists and ankles. I believe it is due to malnutrition. I have been taking free form amino acids so that my digestive system does not have to break down protein to rebuild - it gets it in a "ready to go" form. I have also heard that it is important to take a balanced form of minerals as an adjunct to amino acids - to help in the healing process. I tend to take this stuff on and off. I believe it cannot hurt in the face of malnutrition.

[debmidge]

My celiac hubby has bursitis in both knees (doesn't do physical labor) and anyway he needs to have the bursa sacks removed now.