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GHK-Cu alongside BPC for a slow-healing Achilles tendinopathy, redundant or smart?

Posted by tracker_jade in Healing & Recovery - 1 points, 2 comments.

I've been dealing with insertional Achilles tendinopathy for about 8 months now. Eccentric loading, heavy slow resistance, the whole boring rehab grind. Progress is real but painfully slow, anecdotally feels like I'm only getting maybe 70% back to baseline before the tendon starts complaining again with any kind of sprint or hill work.

I ran injectable BPC for 6 weeks earlier this year and it helped, I think, but I'm wondering if adding GHK-Cu subQ would be redundant or actually stack well. My thinking is BPC for the tendon repair signaling and GHK-Cu for collagen synthesis and inflammation, basically covering two different angles.

For anyone who's layered them, did you notice a real difference vs BPC solo? Also curious about timing, would you run GHK-Cu daily and BPC around the same window, or separate them by a few hours? And how long before you'd reassess whether the combo is even doing anything.

Comments

  • raj_p: Tbh 8 months of insertional Achilles is the worst, I've been there. Your logic makes sense on paper. Different mechanisms, different angles. But for me, the bigger win came from finally getting an ultrasound with a proper sports doc and confirming I didn't have a partial tear driving the lingering pain. Cost me months of just grinding rehab blind. Re timing, I'd separate them by a few hours just to make tracking easier if something feels off. GHK-Cu daily, BPC around the loading sessions maybe
  • tracker_jade: Yeah getting the ultrasound was on my list, I actually had one at month 3 and it showed thickening but no tear, so I kinda wrote it off after that. Maybe it's worth repeating since the picture could be different now. Separating them by a few hours makes sense, hadn't thought of it from a tracking angle but that's a if something goes sideways I want to know what to blame. On the sprint and hill piece, that's exactly the bottleneck. Tendon feels solid on the Alfredson protocol and slow resistanc

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