[anniess]

#1018562

I have been plagued with both tendonitis and bursitis. Does Graves Disease cause you to be more susceptible to those? Thanks for your help.

[Ski]

#1065730

Not that I know of, but sometimes the muscle weakness can lead to those injuries, I think.

[mamabear]

#1065731

I have tendonitis and bersitis in my shoulder from falling down stairs with a child in my arms. I was protecting him (only 3 at the time) and I landed on my shoulder instead of injuring him. I hurt the rotator-cuff and I feel it every now and again.

I had an injury to my wrist due to a dog(long story), sprained it so bad, would have been better off breaking it. The bursa was injured badly and the tendons healed but not 100%. I can’t put too much pressure on it if I use my wrist to hold my self up.

Doing exercises does help. A trainer can help you get started with the right physical therapy exercises to do so please check with them first before doing something to further hurt the injury.

Both injuries were during euthyroid and I was very healthy. Although I know that active graves’ can cause muscle weakness/damage it some times is just due to bad luck and the type of injury you have regardless of how good or bad your health is.

[lwddgt]

#1065732

I have such bad tennis elbow and also asked if anyone else had this issue, I hope that something somes of a connection because nothing else makes any sense other than a connection to graves. Let me know if you find anything out please.

[ablasa]

#1065733

I can see this post started a while ago, but I was searching for bursitis today. I was diagnosed with Graves a few months ago. My shoulder started hurting 6 months ago around the same time I started having early signs of TED, but didn’t know it yet. I was diagnosed with shoulder bursitis yesterday. Although my primary care doctor does not think the bursitis is related to my graves a quick internet search found the cleveland clinic site: http://my.clevelandclinic.org/disorders … eases.aspx
"Bursitis in hyperthyroidism. Bursitis, particularly of the shoulder joint, commonly occurs with an overactive thyroid gland. It may also occur surrounding other joint areas. Joint areas show thickening and soft tissue swelling, and there is significant limitation of motion of joints. Symptoms often improve after treatment of the overactive thyroid."
For me, my thyroid blood levels are "under control" as are most of my symptoms, I think, but my bursitis is not. I don’t know if my bursitis is independent of my graves or graves-related. I will start taking NSAIDS as soon as I hear back from my endo that it is OK to do so.
Anyone else have any experience with or info about bursitis and graves?
Thanks to all who post and answer our questions and add to our knowledge.

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