Re: Another question about knee pain

[Guest guest]

Shriley,

First of all, I must point out that I am not in the medical field.

However, those symptoms seem extremely familiar to me. I had a

ratcheting feeling in my knee, and sometimes it would just lock up in

any particular position.

I was told that it was because I had no cartilege, meniscus on one

side, and I was rubbing bone on bone. I did gedt 3 injections of

synvisc which really helped the situation a lot. (Note: cortisone

injections may numb you for a bit, but will eventually make the knee

worse by breaking down the meniscus.) Unfortunately, I let my knee

go too long in bad shape and just had total knee replacement.

Try to keep your knees permanently. Building up your quads will do

wonders in terms of knee stability. Also, my doc said glucosamine

chondriton could possibly help.

Best to you,

Theresa

Pre Op

Oct 30?

>

> I also have severe knee pain when I stand or walk, and I know I

> have arthritis and bone spurs. I also have a strange thing that

> happens to the muscle above my knee. Sometimes if I move my leg

when

> I am sleeping or when I get up and start to walk the whole muscle

> above my knee just seems to lock up. It is not like a charlie

> horse. It is hard to explain it just seems to get hard and freezes

> up. Any ideas on what this could be would be appreciated.

>

> Shirley

[Guest guest]

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Judy, yes I guess it does feel like that and it is scarey when it

happens because sometimes it feels like it might stay that way one of

these times. Did yours get any better after your weightloss?

My bone spurs are in my knees too.

Shirley

- In duodenalswitch@y..., " Judie Hensel " <jhensel@c...> wrote:

> Shirley,

> does it feel kinda like a tendon gets caught on the bone? I have

that too

> and it makes me very cautious in how I move my legs. It hasnt

happened

> while sleeping but it has happened while walking and oh

boy......once it

> locks like that I can not move for a long time! And such pain!

> Are the bone spurs on your feet? If so they will go away after

surgery!

>

> Hugs, Judie