Joined: 18 Jan 2007 Posts: 9 Location: portland Oregon
Joint Pain After Drinking Alcohol? Posted: 01-18-07 13:09pm
I am 25 y/o and have enjoyed my share of
alcohol over the years but within the last
year or so I have experienced a strange
symptom after a night of hard drinking.
This symptom only occurs once in a while
and only after I drink alot beer. After I
go to sleep that night I will be waken up
out of a dead sleep with very intense pain
in my left knee, and only my left knee.
While I have had minor injuries to this
knee in the past it has never been serious
and I never experience daily pain in it.
But after drinking heavily it gets very
painful that night and I get sporadic
sharp pains the next day but by the second
day I have no problems. The pain seems to
be inside the knee under the cap at the
joint, there is no swelling that I can see
and no clicking or popping. Just intense
pain. I don't know anybody else that gets
this so any input would be very valuable
to me. Thanks.
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ezatnova
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 18 Jan 2007 Posts: 2
Posted: 01-18-07 21:17pm
Does your knee "lock up", like it is
intense pain and it kills to move it, but
you have to move it to get the pain to go
away? I get this as well, although i've
never really associated it with drinking
(although, like you i'm in my 20s and
drink moderately). I get both knees
locking up in the night from time to time.
It seems to come in waves though, and for
some time i'd get it almost every night,
waking up yelling. I haven't injured mine
and don't have swelling either. They do
hurt if I jump off of something or use
them hard (skiing) for a while. That's a
duller uncomfortable pain though, not the
stabbing like when they lock in the night.
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Makoto
Experienced User , Rather EHEALTHy
Joined: 16 Jul 2006 Posts: 287 Location: Japan
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Posted: 01-21-07 17:54pm
Sounds like gout.
Go check the gout section on these forums.
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billygan
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 18 Jan 2007 Posts: 9 Location: portland Oregon
Posted: 01-23-07 13:59pm
My knee dosnt lock up but the pain is so
intense ( maybe an 8 on a scale of 1 - 10)
that I don't want to move it. I am pretty
active physically and I used to be in the
army where my knees and back took alot of
punishment but never hurt like this. The
pain comes only after times of inactivity
like sleeping but after moving around a
little it goes away after a few minute.
After taking makotos advice I looked into
gout ( wich I had never considered) and
that seems to cover what is happening to
me as far as the pain but the causes and
symptoms don't add up. Maybe I should
still get tested. Thanks for taking the
time to respond guys.
