Knee Issues

General
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Man if it’s not one thing it’s another!

So, when I was in my teenage years I had a lot of problems with my right knee. I would just normally walking down the street and BAM! I’d be on the ground because my knee would buckle. Well it happened for along time. Till I had Haley in 2000. Then every once in a great while it would happen. Intact

Anyways, I was told around 1997 or there about I was told that I may need surgery…I went through physical therapy to strengthen my thigh muscles and such and it still happened. Well maybe I don’t remember it happening from about 2001 on. It could have but I don’t remember.

Anyways, the last two weeks I’ve been doing okay. I’ve been feeling pretty good since just about all my stress is gone. The chronic and acute pain is still there but very mAnaged by my meds. However, my right knee is at it again. It keeps popping and buckling. So I can be waking along and one second later I’m on the ground.

I know that I have problem with the patella cartilage but it’s really chopped up on the backside and where the tendon connects to the tibia there is a pronounced lump probably twice if not 3 times the size of my left knee. And after it starts acting up like this I get this constant dull screaming numbness behind my knee.

I used to wear a neoprene brace when this would happen and I would make the doctor happy by going to physical therapy but I haven’t until now had any memorable issues while seeing Dr. B. with the knee. I know I’m going to go into the docs tomorrow and tell him about the problem and he’s gonna look at it and shoot it up with B12- lidocaine and tell me I need PT on It again. But my worry is if I don’t get a ortho to look at it and definitely rule out a serious problem then it’s just gonna get worse. Oh and the reason we didn’t send me to a ortho from the other docs I was seeing was because of my weight. He wanted me to take off about 40#'s and I tried but it just wouldn’t come off.

Anyways how would you handle it?

Lol and a cute little Tid bit. A girlfriend I reconnected with on fb commented on a post I made about my knee. I walked her if she remembered me just falling down when we were in Jr. And Sr. High and she said “Yes! Don’t you remember me saying we needed to get you walking lessons lol.”

Anyways, good night or morning.

Punkin

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Sorry about a lot the anyways, I’m 3/4’s asleep bwahahshshahahahaha

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I agree with Caren, Punkin. I'd insist on seeing the ortho so you can get immediate treatment. Bad knees can keep you from walking. You can't just ignore them and hope they improve. Or get short-term treatment. Yeah, weight makes things worse but having fibro pretty much means carrying around extra weight.

I hope you get a solution for this. I've got my own knee crisis going on and know how problematic things can become when your knees are mucked up.

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Hi Punkin', what did the Doc tell you?

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Okay little more positive than I was thinking. I went in and explained that in the last 8 years or so I haven’t been having problems with it but as of recently it’s been buckling more than I’m comfortable with. I told him that I’ve had problems with it since I was a teen. He got his needles ready to do my trigger point injections and once he got to my knee he pushed on my it in the front and trigger pointed the front then he had me lay on my stomach and I pressed on my pcl and I almost kicked him with my left leg. He says…whelp yeah your having problems. First if the tp injections don’t help don’t wait to come in. Come in and we will figure out an ortho.

So I’m on my way finally after 25 years I may be getting my one taken care of!!!

Happy thanksgiving everyone!!!

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I know how you feel. I have torn apart both of my ACL's again. My right knee is starting to kill me. I know I need to have it cut on, but keep putting it off. With the fb and my bad back I am always in pain, the thought of a knee surgery about makes me sick to my stomach. I would need much stronger pain pills and afraid I would get used to them. Don't really know what to do. I have started icing it when it hurt bad, pain pills don't seem to help. Anyone have surgery while having fb? How did you handle the new and extra pain?

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Glad he is willing to get to this and get you taken care of! Sounds like you have a good Doc there! Hope you can get it taken care of!

Sending good thoughts your way,

SK