Health note - knee getting better
Aug. 9th, 2009 02:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dreamsharkThis note is mostly for my own benefit. I have a little trouble with my knees now and then but never can remember the details later on. I couldn't even tell you if it's always the same knee every time. So this time I'm making notes. No particular reason to make this entry private, but unless you have a great interest in middle-aged knees you probably don't much care about what follows.
I strained my right knee exactly 3 weeks ago, apparently by biking a little farther than I was used to (18 miles on flat terrain, which really shouldn't have been a problem). I didn't even notice the injury, but the day after biking it was hurting. It hasn't been intensely painful, but it just hasn't been getting any better. It hurts when I bend my knee at a particular angle with weight or pressure on the knee. Biking aggravates it slightly, but the thing that hurts the most is something that is very difficult to avoid: standing up from a sitting position. Going up stairs causes some pain. Walking is fine, and even skating doesn't hurt except when my leg gets really tired. I've been wearing a knee brace or Ace bandage most days, which seems to help while I'm wearing it but has no residual effect. I've also developed some very odd and unflattering methods of getting out of a chair, which may have actually made some difference. Basically I lever myself up with my arms, keeping most of my weight on my left foot with my right leg as straight as possible. If I do it right I don't get the little "pop" of pain that I get when I stand up normally.
Anyway, yesterday I wore the knee brace all day despite the miserable hot weather and hardly noticed any pain all day. This morning the knee didn't pop the first couple of times I stood up, even without the brace. I iced it (as I usually do in the morning) and slapped on the knee brace. At this point it feels almost normal. It may not be all well, but I think it is finally getting better.
I strained my right knee exactly 3 weeks ago, apparently by biking a little farther than I was used to (18 miles on flat terrain, which really shouldn't have been a problem). I didn't even notice the injury, but the day after biking it was hurting. It hasn't been intensely painful, but it just hasn't been getting any better. It hurts when I bend my knee at a particular angle with weight or pressure on the knee. Biking aggravates it slightly, but the thing that hurts the most is something that is very difficult to avoid: standing up from a sitting position. Going up stairs causes some pain. Walking is fine, and even skating doesn't hurt except when my leg gets really tired. I've been wearing a knee brace or Ace bandage most days, which seems to help while I'm wearing it but has no residual effect. I've also developed some very odd and unflattering methods of getting out of a chair, which may have actually made some difference. Basically I lever myself up with my arms, keeping most of my weight on my left foot with my right leg as straight as possible. If I do it right I don't get the little "pop" of pain that I get when I stand up normally.
Anyway, yesterday I wore the knee brace all day despite the miserable hot weather and hardly noticed any pain all day. This morning the knee didn't pop the first couple of times I stood up, even without the brace. I iced it (as I usually do in the morning) and slapped on the knee brace. At this point it feels almost normal. It may not be all well, but I think it is finally getting better.
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Date: 2009-08-10 12:56 am (UTC)I'm happy to hear that yours sounds well on the way to recovery.