Undiagnosed Knee Problem- Help Please!! Posted: 09-23-05 22:23pm
A bit of history:
i am now a 31 yr old female.
In 94 I injured the right knee. I was
stepping off a wooden pallet (right foot
on the pallet left foot in the air to take
the next step) when the pallet broke
sending my full weight and that of the
load I was carrying down 6-8 inches onto
my right leg, twisting my knee at the same
time. They first compression wrapped and
later casted the right leg despite no
fractures noted. A couple of months
later when the knee started giving out
without warning or pain I was given a
jointed knee brace (metal bilateral joint
built into the brace). Two years later
the military sent me to pt for a few
months to strengthen the muscles of the
knee when the xrays and mri (i think) came
back clear.
Jump ahead to present time. I am out of
the military.
I have continued to have the same
problems. However in the past couple of
years pain has reared it's ugly head. I
endure a few days of achyness throughout
the knee, some instability, then a few
days of pain on the bilateral sides of the
right knee before the pain goes away until
the next time it occurs. My left knee in
the past six months has gone through the
achyness while the full cycle described
above occurs in the right knee.
Last weekend I could barely walk in the
am. By the afternoon I still had an achy
feeling in both knees and the instability
in the right knee despite a variety of otc
nsaid's. After a visit to the current
family physician I was sent for an mri to
the right knee. Guess what, it came back
clear! Nothing wrong, all is "normal"
with my knee!
I have been internet searching and
googling ever since. I have come back
with a wide variety of possibilities and
impossibilities. Some have said
arthritis until the mri showing clear.
Others have linked my achy hands.
Another wanted to link my hysterectomy
(completed while in the military because
they could not find the cause of the 28
days/month bleeding) and of course plenty
say they can cure it with their herbs,
potions, seminars or books.
I am not going out of my mind but I will
if the doctors keep telling me nothing's
wrong.
Any advice, recommendations or ideas of
what it could be without selling me herbs,
potions, seminars etc is most welcome.
Thank you!
~hoping for relieving help
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Darkat
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 25 Nov 2005 Posts: 2 Location: Australia
Have Similar Problems With Scans Posted: 11-25-05 18:35pm
I have similar problems with all these
negative reports. My catscan shows a 3cm
lucency in my left heel, where I get pain!
But yes even the specialists say its of
no concequence! Then why the pain? I
also have severe pain on the ankle (same
foot) and for 6 months now really severe
pain in right knee. Had small pains in
knee for over 10 yrs but now its really
bad!
All the doctors i've seen are incompetent,
your in and out in minutes send you off
for scans (which show nothing major)they
dont want to know your problems, they just
want your money.
So after some research I am begining to
think maybe its something to do with the
bursitis. All the reading, symptoms
almost match my problems.
If not already done so do a little reading
on bursitis and see if that may be your
issue.
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dandylion
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 15 Nov 2005 Posts: 48 Location: Canada
Pain In Knee Posted: 04-13-06 15:23pm
I had similar problems too!
When I was about 19/20, I fell twisting my
knee really bad. It made such a loud
cracking noise I thought I broke my leg!
But when I got up, I was totally fine and
continued doing what I was doing. That
night, I went to sleep, woke up, stood up
and fell right down! My knee was in so
much pain! I went to the doctor and he
said I probably bruised the cartilage in
my knee and to take it easy which I did
and it went away.
About a year later, my knee gave out on me
and when it gave out, it sent huge waves
of pain! But it only lasted a second.
The next year, the same thing, only it
happened maybe 3 or 4 times that year.
Year after that, it happened maybe 4 or 5
times a year but it wasn't just for a
second, it would last all day. The pain
was so severe that I couldn't bend or
straighten out my knee.
This kept getting worse until about 5
years after the 'accident' it was
happening like every month and it would
last for weeks! I finally went to a knee
specialist and he said he couldn't really
tell what was wrong unless he did
arthoscopic surgury and I agreed.
So, I had the surgury and when it was
done, he said to me that there wasn't
anything wrong! He did scrape a bit of
rough edges but the only thing he noticed
was that I had a fully formed "plica" or
"plika" in my left knee. Apparantly
everyone's born with them but they
basically disintegrate as we get
older--only mine didn't. So, he said he
cut it off.
It took me a long time to get over the
surgury and get my strength back and still
to this day it's not as good as my right
knee, but ever since the surgury (2003) my
knee has not given out on me once.
So, I dont know if that helps or not, but
try looking up the 'plica' on the internet
and see what you can find! Sorry this was
so long...
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pytljc
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 15 Sep 2007 Posts: 1
Mee Tooo Posted: 09-15-07 10:37am
I'm in the exact same boat and in the same
spot ... exactly ... can't find anything
about the risks of undiagnosed knee
injuries either.
