Elbow braces for tendonitis

I've been doing the RR since August last year, missed a few weeks here and there for holidays and went from 140lbs to 162lbs. Gained some great strength and weight. I've put muscle on but also some fat and probably sitting just below 20%BF? I'm a bit of a hard gainer and had to increase my calories from 2.8k to 3.1k over time to continue to gain weight and strength.
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I'm quite happy where i'm at with most progressions apart from i'm struggling to hit CtB pull ups (I also had a minor set back with golfers elbow). Couldn't even do 1 proper push up to begin with and now slowly increasing my lean on PPUs. Went from 30 second support holds at 140lbs to weighted 10.5kg dips at 162lbs. Standing ring rows to horizontal weighed ring rows, etc, etc...
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I'm wondering if I should to continue to bulk to gain strength or try to lean out and cut some fat off myself so I'm lighter and leaner. I've noticed a lot of calisthenics guys are leaner than me even though I've always had a bit of a chubbier waste and stomach, even at 140lbs I never really had proper abs and I did a lot of running and swimming (I guess it's just genetics as my dad is a similar shape!).
Apologies on the pic quality my phone camera is a bit busted atm but the changes are visible.
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I bought OG2 in summer last year and have been using it to structure my workouts. Would be really grateful for any feedback on my current workout plan!
Goals

• No injuries
• 8 second hold of Straddle Planche (Level 8)
• 8 second hold of Front Lever (Level 8)
• 3 * freestanding HeSPU (Level 6)
• 3 * one arm chin ups on each arm (Level 9)
• 3 * Nordic curls (unofficial Level 6)
• 3 * natural leg extensions (unofficial Level 4)
• Also very long term goal of dunking a basketball

The workout - same workout done 3 times a week

• Warmup
  • Couple sets of easy exercises
• Mobility
  • Wrist circles on hands and knees
  • Wrist circles -> 15 reps
  • Shoulder circles -> 5 forwards, 5 backwards
• Skill work
  • 5 mins freestanding Handstand practice
• Strength work
  • Advanced tuck planche hold -> 8s, 6s, 6s, 6s, 6s
  • Half Lay FL with red band -> 10s, 8s, 8s, 8s, 8s (paired with adv tuck planche above - 90s rest between sets)
  • Bent arm bent body press to handstand -> 4, 4, 4, 4, 2
  • Pullups + 20kg -> 6, 6, 6, 5, 5 (paired with BA BB press above)
  • Squats + 5kg -> 12, 12, 12
  • Hip hinge with vertical thigh -> 13, 13, 12 (paired with squats above)
• Core work
  • Straddle L-sit -> 6s, 5s, 5s
  • Pike and straddle compression -> (30s stretch + 10s compression)*3 for both
• Prehab/flexibility circuit (3 rounds)
  • Reverse hyperextension -> 22
  • Straddle splits -> 30s
  • Maltese to planche to maltese with 3kg dumbbell in each hand -> 6s, 6s, 6s
  • Shin flexes -> 25
  • Calf raises -> 25
  • Patrick step -> 25 each leg
  • Hero stretch -> 30s

I normally do 4-5 weeks of the above routine and then take a deload week. Some questions I had:

• How can I work on other skills without my current skills deteriorating? If I replaced front lever progressions with back lever progressions, how could I prevent losing all front lever progress?
• I am working towards some level 8/9 movements. Is it better to get everything else to the same level before carrying on?
• Should I add a core exercise? I struggle to engage the core in straddle planche attempts, back lever, and even elbow lever - my feet always sag. What is the weakness here and how can I solve it?
• Progress is slow - is it time to move away from full-body workouts? I have been using this strength-focused routine for around 8 months. Should I switch to hypertrophy?

Thank you so much for any feedback in advance!

Tl dr - my partner yells at me when he's pissed off, and im not sure at what point it stops being normal and starts being an issue.
This probably sounds like a ridiculous question, sorry - I know I'm in my 30s and I shouldn't need to ask shit like this but I have very little experience of healthy relationships, romantic or otherwise, so sometimes it's hard to judge what is/isn't normal.
My partner and I are engaged and living together, it's a really great relationship overall but when we have an argument (or if he's just generally pissed off about something) he tends to yell and swear and stomp around and stuff. In general he's a pretty loud, animated person whereas I'm softly spoken and never really raise my voice, so the yelling is partly just what he's like. He's not swearing at me as such - it's more like "for fucks sake" or "why the fuck did you do that" kinda thing. We don't argue that often so it's not like it's happening all the time.
I have mental health issues due to a lot of past trauma and I'm extremely jumpy. I don't cope that well with people yelling. Typically I'll either dissociate or hide away somewhere and panic. In the moment, when someone yells at me it feels like I'm going to get hit (my current partner has never done that to be clear) and I guess I visibly brace myself which sometimes pisses him off more because he's like, why tf would you think I'm going to hurt you. Logically, I'm genuinely not concerned that he would hurt me, it's just an automatic response.
After he cools off he always feels guilty and is very apologetic and concerned but tbh I really don't find that helpful and I'd rather not deal with it which I've said. We had an argument last night and he's in that phase now, it's kinda stressing me out. To give an example of the kind of thing he typically gets pissed off about, the argument yesterday was about me pushing myself too hard physically when I've recently lost some weight (I'm in recovery from an eating disorder and I'm still underweight, it's hard for me to gain weight and the amount of exercise i did yesterday probably wasn't ideal). It came from a place of concern.
I'm definitely not saying he's not allowed to be annoyed with me or whatever. I'm just not sure what level of yelling at your partner is normal and expected, like do I just need to get better at tolerating it? Volume wise, he's loud enough to be heard by the neighbours. He does go to therapy and his tempecommunication skills is a big part of the reason for that. He's definitely made changes from how he used to be and part of me thinks this is just me struggling to deal with something that's actually completely normal.
Any advice anyone can give would be appreciated!

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This happened about 6 years ago during my first year as a CNA. Names obviously changed for privacy. I've recently gone back to school for writing and thought it'd be fun to convert some journal entries into stories. Primarily some of my favorites/creepiest. Hope you enjoy and I'd love to hear some feedback to improve my writing!
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"Aug-26-2017
I was always pretty comfortable working at night. Staying up late playing video games was all I did on my days off anyway. I didn't think much of how different it would be somewhere else.
I had picked up at the job as CNA at a nursing home. I had done this kind of work before but in this case the home I worked at needed night shift aides. I was pretty familiar with how easy going the night shift usually is. A few patients will hit their call lights every now and then. And the patients who couldn't move I turned and changed every couple hours. The hardest part of the job was staying awake. If you've never worked in a nursing home, don't. The companies that run these places always gut the staffing ratios. The night shift got by okay because most of the patients were asleep, it did get overwhelming at times. There were two long hallways throughout the building. Housing about 60 patients or residents. The residents were there to stay long term. They had problems with memory, were on hospice, brain injuries, or whatever else. The dementia residents were my favorite. At least once a week I would get a fun story out of them. Anyways, on the night shift we had 3 CNA's and 2 Nurses. About 20 patient's a piece for the aides. The nurses were always elbow deep in charting and handing out medications. That left the aides to work amongst themselves. On the residents wing of the building, called long term, there was one nurses station. On the rehab side, which was a bit bigger, there was a station as well. I always got put on the long term wing of the building. Being a larger guy made moving and turning residents around in their beds a lot easier. The job wasn't half bad and always felt pretty rewarding. There wasn't much to complain about.
It was a hot August night that I came in for my shift. I knew I was going to be assigned to long term and headed down the hall. I met with the night nurse, Holly, at the nurses station. There, the two swing shift aides were eagerly waiting to give me their report and go on their ways. I won't bother with their names, it's not important. They had told me the usual rundown of the residents and I had been familiar with them for almost 6 months now. However, they had told me that David in 312 had been acting weird. They said he didn't really eat his dinner and he refused to be put in bed. David was this sweet, old, mostly blind man in his 90's. He had dementia, which made a lot of what he said hard to believe. They said that David doesn't like sharing his room and that's why he won't go to sleep. They had explained to David that he did in fact have a private room but he insisted and refused to go to bed. The aides told me that night shift has just been waiting for David to fall asleep in his wheelchair and then taking him to bed then. I figured that would be my case that night.
I parked David next to Holly at the nurse's station and started my first round. I usually worked down the left half of the hallway and back up the right. The hallway is quite long with a big emergency fire door at the end. An alarm would sound if anyone were to open it. I had worked my way down to the end of the hall. David's room was at the very end. Room 312, with a terrible construction paper name plate taped to the door. There was some clothes on the ground in David's room that I'd picked up. I made his bed in the event he was asleep when I finished my first round. I noticed the bathroom was open and the light was on. I checked and nothing was in there so I closed it. All the bathrooms in this hall were shared between two adjacent rooms. I know David was incontinent and wouldn't have used the bathroom. I figured it was either the neighboring room or one of the aides washed their hands in there. I carried on and finished my round.
By the time I had finished my first round it was already 12:30 at night. I sat at the nurse's station next to David and Holly to start charting what I had just done. David was telling Holly all about his job as a photographer for the newspaper. He said he was getting photos for a story on the Black Panther Party in Oakland. I thought that was really incredible. Both that he thought it was the 60s and that he had actually photographed the events down there. You really got a lot of neat stories from the old people we kept down here.
At about 02:30 David finally fell asleep in his chair. I wheeled him down to his room and started to change his brief. I went to close the blinds when I felt a warm breeze under my shirt. David's window had been slid open a crack. I hadn't noticed it earlier, but I didn't really go near the window. I closed it up and finished putting David into bed. He was fast asleep when I was pulling his blankets over him. I headed back down to the nurses station and had a pretty calm second half of my shift.
The next night I came back to work. Same place, same time. The evening aides gave me their report, told me again about David not wanting to go to his room. I figured the night was going to be the same as last. I parked David next to Holly and started working. I was getting sheets out of the linen closet when I heard a toilet flush towards the end of the hall. I headed down towards the sound until I reached the end of the hallway. The faint sound of game shows on Room 311's TV was all I could hear. I looked into David's dark room, the bathroom light was on. I stepped over toward the handle and quickly flung the door open. There was nothing in there. Then I realized that it smelled. Someone had used the toilet. I walked through the joining room door. The resident's name was Patrick. He was an old war vet that had a stroke. His left side was weakened and he needed a lot of help to get around. I asked Patrick if he'd gotten himself up to the bathroom. He said no. I said okay and started walking back. He then told me that he was tired of the neighbor forgetting to unlock the bathroom door on his side. I froze and my heart sank as he told me that. I didn't want to freak Patrick out so I carried on with my round and got back to Holly. I told her what Patrick had said and that I heard the toilet flush down there. She decided to call the cops and have them search the backyard of the building. One of the officers said that the screen was missing from room 312, but that was it. I told the officer that that was the room I heard someone using the bathroom in. He said he'd look around again but there's nothing out there. They still found nothing and suggested we put a stick in the window to block it from opening but that's all that came of it that night.
The next night I had a sense of dread coming into work. The evening aides talked to me about how creepy it was and how they're afraid to go to David's room now. I did my best to ignore it but I was terrified to put David to bed that night. I was making my rounds again when I heard some shuffling down the hall. The hallway seemed to get longer and longer as I stared down toward room 312. A lump in my throat formed as I stood frozen. I was jump scared by my coworker Mindy. She was the aide for the center wing. She asked me about what happened and I told her. I also told her that I had just heard something from that room. She invited herself to investigate with me. We walked slowly towards the room. We approached the doorway and I reached for the light switch. I flicked the light on and the room seemed normal. No bathroom light on. Nothing. I asked Mindy to help me make the bed and we started. I kicked something on the ground and realized it was the stick that held the window shut. I looked up at Mindy and held up the stick. Her face turned pale white as she looked at it and me. She let out a scream and pointed at the window. A set of eyes over a dark silhouette stood on the outside of the window. It was a crazy looking guy. His hot breath was making fog on the window as he stared at us. Mindy had run out of the room already and I was left staring at him. I stood frozen as he leaned toward the window. "Thanks for making my bed again." he said with a smile that made my heart drop. Grabbed the window and tried sliding it open. I quickly put my hands on top to hold it shut. He started yelling at me and banging on the window with his hand. Telling me all of his things were in here and cursing at me. Holly and Mindy had come back into the room screaming. The man picked up a rock and started breaking in the window. I held up the stick ready to beat the man. Holly and Mindy pulled me back from the window as the man climbed through the broken glass. I then could see Mindy was on the phone with the police. The man's hands were all cut up from the glass. We eventually managed to fend the guy off and he climbed back out of the window and ran. The cops caught him later and said he was pretty deranged. They had me help them go through David's cabinet, they said the man insisted his things were in the room and that he lived there. Going through David's closet I slowly came to realize that a lot of this stuff wasn't his. Two bags of clothes and a dirty backpack were stuffed in the bottom of the closet. It made me realize that this guy had been living in David's room for at least a little while. David wasn't able to tell us what was going on. He really did think he just had a new roommate. We moved David closer to a room closer to the nurse's station while his window was being repaired. I never heard anything else about the guy that broke in. I figured he was admitted to a mental hospital somewhere. Hopefully he got the help he needed.
All this wasn't enough to make me quit the night shift. I do take noises I hear a lot more seriously now. I started working at the hospital a couple months later and security is a lot tighter there. Dark hallways still make me uneasy to this day and I always find myself checking for open windows."

Does anybody else suffer from chronic tendinitis? I have tendinitis in most of my body and it is very painful and has been preventing me from doing a lot of things. I’ve been struggling with this for years now and it’s only gotten worse. I’ve tried resting for long periods of time (ie. Resting my arms for a few weeks when tennis elbow is bothering me the most), i have tried stretching and the other exercises showed to me by a physical therapist during the single visit covered by my insurance, NSAIDs, heat, ice, massage, and nothing helps even a bit. I’m not sure why or what is going on, I have not been able to get an answer regarding this (not the fault of any of the providers I’ve seen they have all been very sympathetic and tried their best to figure out why I am not experiencing relief from the symptoms). I have been very diligent with all of the above stated measures for weeks or months at a time and often multiple measures at once but nothing seems to help. It’s also just become increasingly difficult to try to treat using methods such as ice or heat because it is an issue in so much of my body.
I have fibromyalgia, I have been tested for a lot of other possible underlying causes such as MS and none of them came back with any results regarding that. I do have other issues with mobility like hyper mobility in some joints, maybe some of y’all have a similar problem and advice. I’m getting desperate.

Last year i fell off a motorbike and put my hands before to protect me. My left elbow hurted me for 2 days and i only put ice and didnt go to hospital. 14 days later it was still a bit swollen, but i could use it and move it with no hurt at all since some days. I took x rays, compound fracture of radium (idk if correct english name). They couldnt believe i went 2 weeks with no hurt and could move, and i also fell on it with nothing. They said i must had proved pain because it is one of the painful bone to break. Idk i took 20 days of plaster and was all done. Strange experience

I took omeprazole for about a year after being diagnosed with gastritis - 20mg for the first half and 40mg for the second. After about a month I started getting pain in my knees when running. I stuck with taking the omeprazole because of how bad my stomach was, but now I get pain just from walking and have similar problems with my elbows too.
I’ve spoken to a few GPs and a rheumatologist, had blood tests and scans done, but none of them know what’s causing it, and despite me asking none offered any alternatives to omeprazole.
After talking to a GP recently I decided to taper off omeprazole because I wasn’t sure it was even helping my stomach anymore, and the joint pain has become a bigger problem. I finished tapering almost two months ago now and while my stomach isn’t any worse, my joint pains are not any better.
Weirdly, each time I reduced the amount of omeprazole while tapering, I found that for a few days after my joints started cracking more, before returning to just being painful.
I’ve tried taking supplements including magnesium, vitamin D and multi vitamins, but so far nothing has helped.
So, has anyone else here had joint pains when on PPIs, and how long did they take to go away?

So my gorgeous 8 month old, who was doing pretty well with sleep and who I was thinking of gently night weaning, is now wearing a rhino brace for hip dysplasia.
Frankly, it sucks. She's been a side sleeper and tummy sleeper since as soon as she could get there herself. We were able to gently train her and she didn't cry very much at all. Sleep is her jam, she loves it. And now she's screaming because she can't roll over properly in a half asleep state. (Yes we are daytime practicing.)
I just picked her up, and brought her to our bed, because she was screaming, and I was crying, and this just is awful.
This is hard.
But please save the platitudes. I know she won't remember, that I'm doing the right thing by her health, and that it's amazing what babies can do while braced- she managed to climb to an out of bounds spot and pull herself to standing in it today.
I just want my good sleeper back.

A few days ago (Tuesday) I was walking on my treadmill and (I started to do Peloton tread). For exercise I alternate between Peloton bike, weights and now treadmill. This was only my second time trying their treadmill class. It went fine and I had a very normal day after that. No fall, no weird misstep that I even remember.
Around 2 am I woke up with an awful pain in my ankle. So bad I wanted to cry. I wanted to try to get up to get myself an ice pack but I couldn’t even move. I looked at my ankle that looked completely normal to the eye. No swelling, no bruising, maybe a little bit red but still very normal. I decided to go back to sleep and thought maybe I was having a spasm or something but that wasn’t the case.
I tried little by little and I could put weight on it, but it hurt to do so. I got so terrified it might be broken that I went to urgent care yesterday (Saturday.) Basically they took a scan and told me my foot is not broken, just sprained. She also used the term tendinitis, which I assume is the same thing? I’ll post a picture of how she told me to recover. She told me it will take a few weeks, probably around 2 in my case to feel better. She thinks because I didn’t feel it until later in the night it is not that bad of a sprain. She told me if it does not get better in a few weeks, to call a foot doctor she gave me the number for. I’ll post her directions and a picture of my ankle for reference.
I am going to try my best to take the time to recover. I luckily work from home but there are still errands I do for work that requires me to drive. I went out and got an ace ankle brace and a bunch of ice packs too.
I am a soon to be bride and my wedding is on July 1st. I am terrified thinking about walking on my wedding now. I am terrified weeks will go by, my ankle will not get better and this will still be a problem in the future. This is my first time with any major sprain (no sprains, no broken bones) so it’s just new for me. What if it’s not really a sprain, but something worse??!?! All I keep reading about is how I should get an MRI but I don’t really have the means to right now. I’m freaking out I guess. I don’t want to be able to not walk on my wedding day…
Do you think sprained ankles usually lead to something more?? Do you think I’ll be fine to walk in July?? Thanks for any input or comments.

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Hailey Bieber’s glowing skin
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Before a big red carpet, I will generally get a facial. That’s the biggest fix of all. Also, the products you use to fix your skin under the makeup are essential. I’ll do an excellent hydrating distance mask, eye masks, a hydrating mist, Rhode’s Peptide Glazing Fluid, and hedge Restore Cream. In creating Rhode, I wanted to ensure the products worked well under makeup and that the finish of the makeup and the effects go beautifully together. I always use Rhode products to fix my skin under makeup.

My partner and I have a 3 year old child and have been together for a few years. We have always existed in a partnership but I have noticed that diminishing in the last year or so. Our son was recently diagnosed with autism which I, as a professional in the field, had been bracing myself for. It has been a process to accept this fact but once he was diagnosed I sprung into action. My partner was always on the "he'll be fine" camp so the official diagnosis threw him. He has completely shut down on us and will not acknowledge that autism is a lifelong condition but rather something he will "grow out of." I keep telling him that this is who our son is and we need to accept and create an environment to support him. Throughout the entire process it has been me seeking out the developmental evals, assessments, therapies, etc but handling the entire early intervention process, hearing out everyone's concerns. It has taken its toll on me. I even started researching couples counselors for us to talk to but I stop myself--why am I the one to facilitate everything? Can anyone else relate? I'm in a lonely position and don't know what to do next. I'm even considering ending my relationship because this has placed such a strain on us. I have jumped into action for my son and I feel my partner is at a total stand still. I know everyone copes differently but I need him to be here with me through this challenging time.
TL;DR: OP's son was diagnosed with autism recently and is working on getting him services while OP's partner is in denial and at a standstill, not participating in any part of the process.

So; after 20or so years in retail; I’ve decided to take a career change and get into teaching. I’m currently on year 1 of 3 at getting my Ba in English language and lit; then I’ll start looking into QTS and whatnot once I’m a bit closer to clearing this first hurdle. (Being a 35yo student is a post in and of itself lol)
So the goal is to teach highschool English within 5 years. My question is; what advice; warnings or comments do you have? Anything I need to brace myself for? What’s the view from the trenches like?
Thanks in advance :)