Olecranon bursitis

shaunharris

Hi guys,

I've just been diagnosed with bursitis of the elbow; it's pretty much painless and just looks weird that I currently have one enormous elbow, but obviously I need to rest, ice it and apparently ibuprofen will help too. Bit annoying that I have to give the swimming and strength training sessions a miss as well.

Basically I was wondering if anyone else has had this, and roughly long it took to clear up? My first ever tri is a week on Saturday...

Cheers,

Shaun

Trisurfer

I had this wrongly diagnosed on my knee a few years back and was scheduled to have a surgeon do something to it with a needle.
Not sure what he was going to do, but he was going to fix it. (Turned out it was miniscus cartlage tear)

Has the doctor who diagnosed not prescribed a course of action apart from rest?

shaunharris

Ibuprofen, periodic ice and rest. If it's not noticeably gone down within a week I have to go back again, but it's a bit smaller today already. But that still didn't tell me how long until it's completely resolved, so I don't restart swim training too early and make it come back.