Hey,

I’ve had pain in my elbow for a week now, that’s been getting worse. Over the weekend especially – despite the fact I was completely rested. Also some swelling has started.

Today I went to a Dr who was very un-sympathetic and barely examined the elbow. He shrugged at it and said "it had only been a week", must be tennis elbow and didn’t seem to hurt that much. Despite me insitsting it hurt more at night than early morning (my appt. was 8.30am) and it had stopped me sleeping all night. He said to take ibruprofen for a week or two and more or less shoved me out the door.

Trouble is – looking online it states tennis elbow is very rarely accompanied by swelling. Also said it should be given complete rest from whatever hurt it. But I think mine is caused by typing and he told me to carry on as normal.

And I also don’t know if I can resume my gym activities that I paused over xmas and was about to start up.

Any help appreciated.

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Hey. I just noticed that my elbow hurt yesterday but i’m not sure if its tennis elbow… A couple of weeks ago, i went to the doctors and i checked up on my elbow that had a popping noise when i pull my arm back, and pulled it the opposite direction. He said my tendon thingy or something was loose and if it bothered me, i had to get surgery.

Here’s the problem, I’m not sure if its tennis elbow or the tendon thing but it hurts whenever i do easy stuff, like open my refrigerator door. I iced it but i’m not exactly sure where to ice my elbow… so i iced it near my tendon, then on the center of my elbow. can someone help me? …i dont want surgery on my tennis arm during the season…

Additional info… lets see… I’m a 14 asian boy, 5′ 2 and a half, like 92 lbs, i play tennis. I also write with my left hand but i am right handed in almost everything except for eating.

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