I hurt my knee

[Airhog]

I have no idea what I did to it either. I got up from my computer desk last night and it felt really wierd. It felt like it was really fatigued and it wouldnt hold my weight. This morning, my mobility is limited with it. It hurts to put weight on it, or fully extend it. The knee is quite warm, warmer then my other knee, and the kneecap is making a wierd sound. It also hurts quite a bit if I touch it and apply even a little bit of pressure.

I guess I am going to run to the urgent care clinic, and hopefully, since I don't have insurance, it won't be too expensive.

[Raiders Army]

Try putting some WD-40 on it.

[wbatl1]

Where does it hurt? Soes it hurt when you go through the range of motion or just feel like it cant do it?

[Airhog]

FYI: I went to the quickcare clinic. They told me that I just had a simple sprain. Told me to take some ibuprofen, and rest it.

[st.cronin]

Knees are pretty simple joints. Even a fairly serious knee injury will often heal itself with rest. The exceptions are acl tears and certain types of meniscal tears.

[FrogMan]

rest it and ice it too...

Not much more I could add, a weird ailment...

FM

[Airhog]

The doctor said the same thing FM. He told me that since I didnt suffer any trauma, and there wasnt any pain or much swelling, that it probably wasnt serious. Since I didnt have insurance, he didnt want to charge me for x-rays or anything. Said I should come back if it doesnt getter better by the end of the week.

[CHEMICAL SOLDIER]

Hope you feel better.

[fjvieane]

Hehe, I have had 3 knee surgeries on my right knee. I never had any swelling, just locking up and clicking. So the docs go in and find I tore my meniscus the first time, so they took out the damaged part and said I was good to go. So I start therapy and the idiot told me to do the stair master and I said nope not ready, he said to try. Well, LOL, I try and sure enough I hurt my knee again. I end up tearing all but 1 piece of cartliage in my knee and then the 3rd surgery I tore the rest of my meniscus and they took it out.

So, the moral is, treat your knees right, LOL.

[BigJohn&TheLions]

My kness go out all the time. I can just be standing there and you hear POP! and I have to catch myself from falling.

I was told by a doctor the last time I sprained my left playing football that my acl's are both weak... like stretched out rubber bands. He said that it was the most severe sprain he had ever seen (before the MRI came back he thought I tore the acl.) He said that if my acl's were normal, it would have torn. I get to look forward to my knees continuing a downward spiral until I need surgery. Yay.

[Huckleberry]

Stories like these are why I have always felt blessed to have crappy ankles instead of bad knees.

After 7 or so sprains to the left ankle, including one extremely bad one that the doctor said should have torn something, and about 5 to the right ankle at least they're getting stronger now. Every once in a while they'll start to give if I try to accelerate laterally, even turning over sometimes. That used to sprain them, but now they just ache for a second and are back to normal.

[bryce]

My body is falling apart:

I tore my right ACL playing indoor soccer a few years ago. It didn't pop, though, and didn't swell much. It hurt, but not excruciating pain when it happened. The next day, though, I could barely bend it to even get into my car to go to work. This got better over a few days, too, so I still never went to a dr. But I noticed that it would just give out on me every so often - I would just be walking around normally, and then it'd feel like I stepped in a hole or something and I lost all support. Finally I went to the dr and he confirmed it was a torn ACL. After the surgery and the rehab, I have a whole new respect for athletes to come back from that injury, if for nothing else than the confidence side of it.

I also dislocated the kneecap in my other knee, the right knee, just walking around the side of my desk at work. This time it did pop, and hurt even worse than lying on the indoor soccer turf with a torn ACL, and I was convinced I did it again to this knee. (The stats bear out that if you tear an ACL, you have a 50% chance of either tearing it again or tearing your other one at some point.) But, no, alas, 'just' a dislocated kneecap, and it healed after a few weeks. (I later learned my sister has the same problem with her kneecap popping out every so often, so I think a lot of joint problems are hereditary.)

I also separated my left shoulder in a hotel room, falling down in the middle of the night, and bracing myself against the wall. I got up to look in the mirror, and it was bent like a cartoon character, just jutted across my chest and dangling lifelessly. i couldn't even put on a shirt when i went to the ER, where they strapped me down and yanked it back into place - it popped twice before nestling back in its socket, so it was very far from home. I think this hurt more than the ACL or kneecap, but definitely had the shortest recovery time. I also have a whole new respect for Emmitt running for 200 yards vs. the Giants in week 17 back in the 90s, all the while with a separated shoulder. I couldn't even open a car door, let alone take the pounding of hundreds of pounds of people falling on me every single play. I now hope this doesn't happen to me again, as the stats again bear out a 50% chance of re-occurring, and then if it happens twice, there's an 80% chance it'll keep happening, even in your sleep - it's at this point that the surgery is necessary to strengthen it

I've also lost my two front teeth playing basketball - I was fouled - aka pushed - into the metal pole teeth-first in a driveway hoop. Two months in and out of an dentist's chair to get back to normal on that one, and now I hope to avoid the risk of a root canal.

The odd part is - all of this has happened in my 20's. I played all sorts of sports in HS, basketball, baseball, soccer as a younger child, etc, and the worst I got was a sprained finger. My knees often hyper-extended, though, and I now know that was a warning sign for weak knees.

Long story not-so-short, I am 28 going on 58, and I now keep my orthopedic surgeon's number in my cell phone. That's never a good sign...

[duckman]

About six weeks ago, I was helping out my aunt with her yard because her lawnmower was broken. While I was lifting the mower into the trunk of my car, I felt something popped in the base of my neck. It didn't hurt, so I thought it was just a simple "popping" of my back.

A few days later, I was backing my car out of the driveway when my neck popped again. This time, I began to lose sensation in my right hand. I went in to see the doctor and he said it was just a compressed nerve.

Two days later, I was in the emergency room because my right arm would go "asleep" and I would lose fine motor functions. They scheduled a MRI for my neck. It's been a month now and I will finally get my MRI tomorrow night during the evening radiology clinic at the veterans hospital.

So for the past 5 weeks, I have lost function my right arm several times in a day. I've been forced to bring a tape recorder to class because I have lost the ability to even write during class.

So, bryce, I feel ya. I'm 28 and got more joint problems than a man my age should have. Oh, to be 18 again.

[st.cronin]

I had a really awful knee injury about 18 months ago, and I would rather have another really awful knee injury than a minor back injury.