Re:Knee Pain...

[Guest guest]

Hi...

In regards to knee pain....I may know as much about this subject...as even my

orthopedic doc listens to me...he says I may know as much as he does about

knees. He may be right...since I have had bad knees since 1977. Plus...I have

had 9...yes 9...operations on my left knee alone. I have torn and ruptured

everything that can be torn or ruptured in a knee. I also have fractured my

knee cap, and lost a significant amount of muscle from some of the supporting

muscles in the leg. I have also read most every article that comes out on the

subject of knees, and knee pain relief...and have probably tried every known

injection around. Luckily...as I see it...I had severe nerve damage done to my

left leg in 1978, and feel next to nothing down the outside half of my left leg.

So I don't feel anything when I am given a steroid injection, or even when they

have to drain the fluid from my knee. For the nurses in here...you know what

size of needle is used to drain a knee...and I

don't even feel it when it is inserted. I do feel pain though...usually along

the inside of the leg...and it is usually enough to stop me from doing much at

all.

When I am offered a steroid injection...I do not turn it down!! The relief is

almost intoxicating...I feel so good after one. So...if your doctor offers a

steroid injection..please take it! They do numb the area of the injection for

you, and if you look away...you won't feel much at all.

I personally cannot have an MRI as I have a steel screw in my left patella

tendon keeping it in place....I told you I have ruptured everything!!! It was

ruptured from the tibia during a football game in which I also tore the ACL,

MCL, LCL, PCL, tore my Quad, & broke my femur and tibia...all at the same

time...on the same play. I was rolled up from behind by a linebacker, who rolled

up against the back of my leg, and then I was bend sideways over my left

leg...towards the ground...when I was hit by 3 other players from the right side

of my body. My left leg ended up near my left ear in the pile...from what I was

told, as I passed out. It is very hard to talk about...since I spent the next 9

months in and out of the hospital, and had 6 operations to put my leg back

together. Oh...and please remember..in 1978...they still use plaster casts!!! I

never took anything more than Extra Strength Tylenol after the first few days of

an operation, as I didn't want to get hooked on

the codeine. I still do not take much more than Aleve most days now...and when

I do..it's only 1/2 a pain killer at a time.

So what am I saying....if you have a chance to get relief...take it. I have

lived with this now for nearly 30 years, and its never been easy. I know what

it's like to be in pain 24-7-365. I've done it now for nearly 30 years...and was

diagnosed for RA back in 1999. I wish the RA was in my left side...but no such

luck..it's in my right hip.. I would trade anything not to have the RA in my

right hip...the RA pain is so far beyond any pain I have ever experienced for it

tenacity and for the fact that it can stop me from doing most anything. On bad

RA days...walking is shear torture...and that's what I call it. I tell my

wife...I've had enough torture for one day...and I go lay down. My wife can

even tell when I am having a flare up...she'll be next to me in bed and she'll

get up and put our 6 foot long pillow in between us...she says I am so hot she

can't stand it. Even the dogs won't lay up against me then!!!

But...I get up each day...and during the school year...I go teach my

kids...and I don't let on that anything is wrong. I do what I have to do. Pain

or no Pain. Sometimes when I get out in my van after work...I want to just cry

because I am in so much pain. But...I figure I have survived another day, and

I'll get up tomorrow and do it all over again.

But...that's just me. For what it's worth.

Larry Holmack

KarLa Bichon Frise

Now in Houston Texas Bichondaddy1057@...

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