TB-500 alone vs stacked with BPC-157 for a stubborn patellar tendon, what worked for you?

Posted by runner_aaron in Healing & Recovery - 2 points, 0 comments.

Hey, so I've been nursing a cranky patellar tendon on my left knee for the better part of 4 months now. It's that classic "annoying on stairs and deep squats, fine at low loads" kind of thing. I've done the usual boring rehab, isometrics, heavy slow eccentrics, deloads, the whole boring list. Progress is there but slow, tbh.

I'm now weighing whether to add TB-500 on its own or just run it with BPC-157 from the start. I've used BPC before for an adductor strain and felt it moved the needle, but the tendon feels like a different beast, less blood flow, more stubborn.

For those who've actually run TB-500, did you notice anything specific on tendon tissue or was it more of a muscle thing for you? And if you stacked it with BPC, did you run both daily or spread them out? How long before you felt something real on the tendon, not just "I think it's better" placebo vibes? Keen to hear what actually worked, not theory.

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