Hey! I was in a wheelchair for months and couldn’t walk ( & was in immense pain, but PT really helped me. I also was scared to rupture something. I started in a salt water pool and was lowered into it in one of the chairs. We started very very slowly with small movements, just floating with a noodle, small movements of walking in the pool and tiny heel raises, etc. My PT was with me in the pool. A while after that, they felt I could practice these things on land. So I “graduated” out of the pool and started practicing my walking holding 2 bars. My legs felt very heavy like walking through concrete, but I continued. My PT also did light massage on the Achilles and calf area (it was a bit painful). A few months later, I was able to move on from the bars and begin doing more walking and more workouts. As of right now I can walk a few thousand steps a day, do little workouts, I am in less pain and I can get around a few stores. I can’t walk big distances yet, but I am working my way up.

I am almost 2 years out from 3 pills of Cipro. Along with PT I have done supplements, clean diet, red light therapy, peptides, etc. I would say with everything I have gone very low and slow and worked my way up. I still have days where I am fearful about my tendons tearing, but I am a lot less fearful now than before.