Help: Knee Pain

[TheGirlNextDoor]

Thanks for all the replies.

Meniscus tear is the same conclusion I came too. I guess it's just going to be slow healing, unless it gets worse then I'll consider an arthroscopic surgery. I just don't have any floor level accommodations and can't afford a hotel for 2 months of rehab. I think I may actually have a tear and patellar tendonitis from the symptomatology. I have a doctors appt in a couple months and will get a referral to a specialist if it's still really bad.

The hell of it is I didn't hardly feel anything and besides the night time, frozen pain when it's bent it doesn't hurt that much. Old crummy body sucks.

I tore my meniscus a couple of years ago. Haven't had surgery yet, but I'm sure it's coming, according to the orthopedic surgeon I saw. I had almost the same symptoms you have, but my pain was at it's worst going up stairs (and I have two flights in my house) . I didn't experience the pain at night.. Rest, rest, rest is all I can say. It's hard not to over do it once it starts feeling a bit better.

I've been putting off a rotator cuff surgery for years now, also. Lol. I hate doctors... my shoulder pops and grinds if I lift my arm over my head or roll my arm from front to back. I blame an auto accident that nearly offed me years ago , but I suspect I didn't do my knee, shoulder or my back any favors by doing stupid **** when I was younger.

I hope you get some relief soon. It sucks when sleep is interrupted because of pain. Kind of hinders the healing process. Glad to hear you're seeing a doc.

And I agree....getting old sucks.

 

[grip]

I tore my meniscus a couple of years ago. Haven't had surgery yet, but I'm sure it's coming, according to the orthopedic surgeon I saw. I had almost the same symptoms you have, but my pain was at it's worst going up stairs (and I have two flights in my house) . I didn't experience the pain at night.. Rest, rest, rest is all I can say. It's hard not to over do it once it starts feeling a bit better.

I've been putting off a rotator cuff surgery for years now, also. Lol. I hate doctors... my shoulder pops and grinds if I lift my arm over my head or roll my arm from front to back. I blame an auto accident that nearly offed me years ago , but I suspect I didn't do my knee, shoulder or my back any favors by doing stupid **** when I was younger.

I hope you get some relief soon. It sucks when sleep is interrupted because of pain. Kind of hinders the healing process. Glad to hear you're seeing a doc.

And I agree....getting old sucks.

You sound as bad as me. I have a herniated disk in my back that surgery made worse. But the knee thing really shocked me. Don't know what I did except go up some steps about 20 times for two days? I can feel the knee under my hand when I bend it make this gruesome crunching and clicking. I think it's finally mending but like you say I need to resist the urge to not baby it. I wear a brace sleeping which helps.

Thanks for the thoughts.

 

[VanceMack]

I tore my meniscus a couple of years ago. Haven't had surgery yet, but I'm sure it's coming, according to the orthopedic surgeon I saw. I had almost the same symptoms you have, but my pain was at it's worst going up stairs (and I have two flights in my house) . I didn't experience the pain at night.. Rest, rest, rest is all I can say. It's hard not to over do it once it starts feeling a bit better.

I've been putting off a rotator cuff surgery for years now, also. Lol. I hate doctors... my shoulder pops and grinds if I lift my arm over my head or roll my arm from front to back. I blame an auto accident that nearly offed me years ago , but I suspect I didn't do my knee, shoulder or my back any favors by doing stupid **** when I was younger.

I hope you get some relief soon. It sucks when sleep is interrupted because of pain. Kind of hinders the healing process. Glad to hear you're seeing a doc.

And I agree....getting old sucks.

With the one knee replaced and the plates in the other leg, I'm determined that when (not if) the right knee has finally had it, I'm going for bionics!

 

[Muhammed]

^^

Ouch! That looks painful.

 

[grip]

With the one knee replaced and the plates in the other leg, I'm determined that when (not if) the right knee has finally had it, I'm going for bionics!View attachment 67144455

I feel ashamed for complaining. Hang in there Vance.

 

[Muhammed]

Looks like he broke his ankle.

That sucks!

 

[VanceMack]

I feel ashamed for complaining. Hang in there Vance.

Thanks. Tibia in 2 places, 2 ligaments torn...but it's doing much better! Plate and screws. Really...as long as I didn't bang it, there wasnt all that much pain after the 1st day.

 

[grip]

Thanks. Tibia in 2 places, 2 ligaments torn...but it's doing much better! Plate and screws. Really...as long as I didn't bang it, there wasnt all that much pain after the 1st day.

You had a good surgeon.

 

[VanceMack]

You had a good surgeon.

I really did. They have been pretty stern with me about staying off of it and I'm really trying to be a good patient. They spent almost twice as long as it should have taken but so far it looks really good.

 

[winston53660]

I really did. They have been pretty stern with me about staying off of it and I'm really trying to be a good patient. They spent almost twice as long as it should have taken but so far it looks really good.

I broke my femur once and the tibula and the heel and the right ankle oh and my wrist and my metacarpals and my pinky knuckle all at the same time! I wasn't allowed to walk for three months because the femur required a bone graft.

 

[VanceMack]

I broke my femur once and the tibula and the heel and the right ankle oh and my wrist and my metacarpals and my pinky knuckle all at the same time! I wasn't allowed to walk for three months because the femur required a bone graft.

That's horrible. I've heard the femur is the pinnacle of pain for bone breaks. Glad you are doing better. Any residual pain?

 

[winston53660]

That's horrible. I've heard the femur is the pinnacle of pain for bone breaks. Glad you are doing better. Any residual pain?

I can tell ya when it is going to rain!

 

[longknife]

Go see a doctor! :roll:

 

[grip]

I really did. They have been pretty stern with me about staying off of it and I'm really trying to be a good patient. They spent almost twice as long as it should have taken but so far it looks really good.

I'm hearing a lot of rest the knee and don't over work it. Though I know eventually a little rehab will be in order, slowly though.


Everyone keeps saying see a doctor. I ask my back surgeon after the bad results why surgery was pushed. And he said to a hammer everything looks like a nail. It's what we do besides medications and therapy. Sometimes a conservative approach is better, until it's more obvious you need intervention.

 

[longknife]

I fell and went 12 days ignoring my wife's urging to see a doctor.

I finally did and the x-rays showed I fractured the tip of the Radius and am now in a cast. [HATE IT!!!]