am a new member here

[Guest guest]

hello all i am new here and i just wanted to say a lil about me so we can get to

know each other. well first i will say i joined this group cause i have Patella

femnal pain syndrome. in the summer of 2011 i got it in my left well so i

thought doctor never said just told me to go and do therapy for it and i was all

better after 4 weeks of therapy. and then this march my right knee went out and

at first i just left it go cause i realized that the pain was just like it was

last year when i had it. i was in constant pain, and i also had a lot of stingy

pain. so in april i got my reg doctor to sign off on me to go and see an

orthopedist and i saw one and my first visit was less then impressed cause i saw

a physican assistant. he said to do therapy for my knee and if not better in 2

months to come back. well i did therapy for 6 weeks and was still in pain, and

some days after therapy i was so sore that i tried to stay still and not get up

so much. and also the stingyness went away but then it came back again. and

sometimes i will be sitting down resting then all of a sudden my knee will start

hurting good bit. one night was resting and pain shot to a 4 then a 6 all

within 5 minutes. i find that the more i walk or longer i walk or the more i

get up and do things the more it hurts. people keep telling me that i still

hurt a lot because all i do is rest my knee and that i need to get up and move

move move, and i said the more i move the more i hurt, and some of my chat

friends are telling me that i need to rest my knee as much as i can. i do have

it wrappped up in an ace bandage. well anyway i got tired of the pain so i went

back to the physican assistant last friday, and when he got in the room i said

the pain never went away and he lifted my legs together and looked at them and

said there is a spot in ur leg near ur knee cap that is called a tear drop point

cause it looks like a tear drop and he said that part of my leg is very very

weak, and that i need to strengthen it big time. so idk if that means i need to

do more therapy of not for it. so he was like i am sending u for an MRI to see

what is wrong and all, so i go for the MRI 2morrow night and then i go back to

ortho on friday to see what the prob is and what treatment he wants for me. he

said something about giving me a shot in my knee and i said no that is ok i do

not want that and he was lil hesitant anyway to do that cause i am still young.

he was also like i do not want to do surgery or shots or anythign drastic yet

cause u still in ur 20's and that is young and i want to wait and only do that

stuff as a last resort. and he mentioned about me wearing a brace cause i showed

him my ace bandage and he said that will not help. so i said well i am goign out

tonight i can get a brace then and he was like no it has to be a special brace i

guess one that insurance will have to pay for. so that is where i stand for now.

and the stupid thing is i can't take any anti-inflamatories cause it messes with

my inhaler so all i can take for the pain is tylenol, and during my visit the

physican assistant was like oh take some of those then he was like oh wait u

can't take them so he left it at that and never told me what meds to take for

my knee pain so if it gets really bad then i will take tylenol for it.