it takes a long time but if you stick with it, it works.
Tendon stretches 2x a day with resistance bands. First thing in the morning and night before bed.
3 sets of ~30 - start light and move up. I just got a set of rubber bands off amazon for ~$25
Vitamin C - take at night
Collagen supplement - I just got the powder and I mix it in water - take at night with the vitamin C
Peptides
TB-500
BCP-157
GHK-Cu
Ask chatgpt about how much sterile water to mix with the peptides and for a dosing chart
Peptides can be injected subq in belly fat or closer to the injury in the calf - don't inject into the tendon. GHK-Cu is also going to help your skin look good so a little bonus.
Recommend doing the band workouts, vitamin c and collagen for a month to gauge progress. You can move on to the peptides after that, lots of people don't like shots so would recommend starting with the less invasive parts of the plan and scale accordingly.
took 3 months but I went from getting out of bed and having to hop around for 2 hours until the tendon warmed up to getting out of bed and no pain. Its still not 100% but I can jog lightly now and do heavy calf raises without issue. Alternative was surgery.
Note: my tendon did not rupture, that's a whole other ball game where surgery is pretty much a must.
Do say more. Nursing some achilles tendonitis on one leg right now.