And it goes on and on. This is the traumatology hospital at Virgen del Rocío, part of their massive university hospital complex (the one that saved my life back in 2008). I didn’t really expect to end up here today (last visit was – I think – when Peter almost put his eye out on Christmas Day). BUT the right knee that had been giving me problems since a few days before the MRI on the left knee last week suddenly went GAAAAH and the pain was just awful. Scary awful. And checking possible reasons on google was not helping.
So a couple of hours and two taxi rides later I was back home again after a jab of anti-inflammatory, a bandage around my knee and a prescription for paracetamol and metamizole. Treatment – stay off my leg and put ice on it. Cause of pain – I overburdened my knee (by being fat). Almost a waste of time (I’m not taking either of the drugs prescribed or wearing that shitty bandage) other than Dr Grumpy said I don’t have any fluid build up around the knee so if there is a Baker’s Cyst there it’s very small, plus he ruled out a DVT.
I also found out that I have osteoarthritis in both knees, not just the left one that had been MRI’d. When I expressed surprise/concern Dr Grumpy snapped (while looking at my xray taken in July) “Well of course you do, if you have it in one you have it in both, but the left one is worse”. Yet it’s my right knee that hurts like fuckity. Apparently because I’m “overloading” it. So fine. I am at home with an ice pack and without the shitty bandage that bunches up and cuts off my circulation. How was your day?
sledpress said:
Well, he was a fuck of a lot of help, wasn’t he? And what a charmer.
Okay, for starters, bodywork can’t get rid of arthritis, but it CAN reduce the excess tone in muscles that is both a cause (by aggravating the tension on the inflamed joint surfaces) and a result of arthritis related pain. The sudden OW sounds especially like a reactive spasm pulling your knee out of line. So you want to get something like a Knobble (a prosthetic wooden or acrylic thumb) and hit the trigger points shown here in the vastus lateralis and lower vastus medialis:
— Then, you need to put up your feet tomorrow night and watch the next season of Hot Taika! — For some reason my spacebar and return key aren’t working on WordPress right now, sorry to run this on. — Here’s a link to knobbles (the first three products pictured; children’s fiction is diverting but unhelpful in this instance.)
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sledpress said:
https://www.amazon.es/s?k=Knobble&__mk_es_ES=%C3%85M%C3%85%C5%BD%C3%95%C3%91&crid=1WH4UJU3WI6NA&sprefix=knobble%2Caps%2C153&ref=nb_sb_noss
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azahar said:
This oughtta work, no? Lovely friend sent it to me ages ago. 🙂
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