Topical diclofenac while running BPC-157 for tendon repair, am I working against myself?

Posted by tracker_jade in Healing & Recovery - 1 points, 0 comments.

So I've been dealing with this nagging medial elbow thing, probably golfer's elbow-ish, and I started BPC-157 injectable about two weeks ago at 250 mcg twice a day. Anecdotally I feel like the dull ache is less but it could just be me backing off training volume at the same time.

Here's my question though. I've been using Voltaren gel on the elbow 3-4 times a day because it genuinely takes the edge off when I'm teaching all day and gripping stuff. But diclofenac is a COX inhibitor, and I keep second-guessing whether blunting local prostaglandins is gonna interfere with what BPC is trying to do upstream with VEGF and angiogenesis.

I've heard people say NSAIDs can slow soft tissue healing. Is that mostly an oral NSAID concern because of systemic levels, or does topical matter too since plasma absorption is so low? The diclofenac profile says tissue penetration lasts 12+ hours so it's definitely in the tissue where the peptide is working.

Anyone run both at the same time and still felt like BPC did its thing? Or did you hold off on the gel during a peptide cycle? Trying to figure out if I'm being smart or just sabotaging myself.

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