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jackc
I sorry to hear, its a very annoying issue. I get tendonitis in my achilles, it flairs up very occasionally, but when it does its horrible. My right tendon gets hot and much much bigger than my left, can take days to cool down but stays oversize for a surprising amount of time.
Once it starts I can make it through a few extra weeks of hockey games by icing it immediately post game, raising it up and not doing anything on it for the rest of the week. but after 3 games of that and a few ibuprofen its untenable to keep going, in my experience anything less than 5/6 weeks complete rest means it flairs up again almost immediately.
After the many weeks rest I build up slowly with lots of ankle dips on a stair, then long walks, medium easy cycles before, then short runs, then 5 a side, and finally back up to proper activity. its a fair few weeks work, but it does avoid another trip to the doctors.