My knees have hurt since I jumped off a low wall at the Chicago Botanic Garden on July 1st, 2005. Anytime they are bent and weight bearing they hurt. This means going up and down stairs (I live in a two story house), sitting down in a chair or getting up or anything similar.
I went to see Dr. Hughes who took x-rays, determined I had arthritis, and gave me a prescription for an NSAID with horrific side effects and a sheet of exercises that he had never really looked at. The prescription worked but he didn't want to renew it because "Medicine is poison". I didn't want to do the exercises because they were all easy for me so what was the point?
In the end, I just suffered until Hughes was arrested last year and I had to get a new doctor.
Dr. G took x-rays and determined that I had bone-spurs in my knees, prescribed Naproxen (which has horrific side effects) and PT. Both the naproxen and the PT helped. With the PT, I was able to get down to go from two to one 500mg pill each day. I'm trying to maintain the PT with mixed success but I still need the Naproxen.
Yesterday, I saw Dr. A, an orthopedic surgeon (poshest doctor's waiting room evah!), who took a set of weight bearing x-rays, and determined that I had no arthritis or bone spurs. Next step is an MRI.
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My Knees, the Ongoing Saga
the exercises may be simple, but it's a matter of keeping those limbs moving to help the progression of the arthritis. I have arthritis as well, and I'm supposed to be doing exercises... Dr. H handed me a sheet of paper that he clearly had never looked at before. I know this because it had blanks to fill in for the number of reps and sets and when I asked him to fill them in he was surprised to see them.
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- Second opinions are always good. I certainly hope whatever is causing your knee pain is reasonably fixable. I'm sorry you're having so much trouble getting a decent diagnosis. Every doctor who saw me when I was sick had something different to say about what was wrong with me. It's frustrating. Unless the MRI shows something, the surgeon is talking "lateral release". He thinks my kneecaps are having tracking problems because a tendon/ligament (I can never remember the difference) is pulling it askew. |