Hi! This isn't a permanent fix, but it may help your pain in a matter of weeks AND improve your returns from physiotherapy.
Please chat with your primary care physician about adding creatine to your daily diet.
Creatine helps both with muscle strength AND with muscle fatigue. So much of hypermobile pain is due to muscles being massively overworked and not strong, but creatine can help both.
Creatine is very well researched. Please read this article. You'll see incredible results -- this woman was so helped by the creatine that she was able to go back to work!!!
Anecdotally, I have been struggling with so much pain and muscle soreness the last 3 years. I added creatine to my diet in December (5g / day) and my pain went from a daily 7/10 to a 3/10. I work out every day now. My physio has FINALLY started working (after 3 years!!!) and I'm more active than ever.
Please chat with your doctor first and read up on the side effects (water weight / bloating for 4-6 weeks, after which it goes away) and increased thirst, but otherwise, I think it may help!!! Good luck ❤️
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u/Jealous-Ant-6197
Same but I don't have any access to physio. Since you do, make sure the right muscles are being trained. Strength and stabilisation not stretching. Sauna, acupuncture and massages. Assistive tech like braces if you can afford them. If you have access to the resources, im sure you'll be okay, just takes mindfulness and consistency. If you dont have all the access you can ask get better, just takes a lot more effort.
Im also 20 and it got bad enough to affect my studies and I had a bunch of emergency situations that got extremely bad. I wish I'd had more support coz i didn't know it could get this bad. It really sucks tbh, feels like a setback that could've been avoided but i had no control over
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u/star5stunnah
Hi! I am exactly the same. Even sleeping has been really uncomfortable for me. I cant stand for an hour or i already feel a lot of pain. Some days i feel like giving up but i just try to do the most in life.
Things that keep me going are my loved ones, my passions, pets, hobbies. Its important you have a support system. Without that i wouldve been gone.
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u/busterbluth21
So glad I found this sub. 39 yrs old and have osteoarthritis in almost all my joints bc of hypermobility. In constant pain. It sucks. And I feel like people don’t “believe” me
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u/caranean
We shouldnt train a single muscle, it creates misalighment. We should train the who train of a muscle. Like squats, thats when u use the whole body. Also somatic movement helped me a lot, and smaller form of hanging, helped my neck and shoulders. I just grab my upper kitchen cabinet handle to stretch, i dont put weight on it. And i lay on the floor, move one arm up and move legs sideways, and then switch, and keep switching, it helps the chain of muscles
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u/IronDominion
If you are doing physio, you shouldn’t be getting weaker unless something else is going on, or you aren’t doing your exercises at home. Are you sure what you are experiencing doesn’t have another cause?
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u/star5stunnah
Also i smoke a lot lol that helps with the stress/pain
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u/Humble_Drag_6727
Prolotherapy and PRP are great regenerative medicines for restrengthening ligaments, tendons, and muscle fibers.