Knee issues

Creekland
Fri, 30 Nov 2018 11:11:54 +0000

if you are walking miles a day several times a week as you indicate (I’m not talking just walking to get around in daily life - at work, around the house, to get the mail) that that is another sign - because your legs should be fairly strong from all that walking

@abasket This is true (total adds up to 4-5 miles because I add to whatever I didn’t get from daily chores and activities), plus my whole life has been active from being a wee lass riding horses and running track in the winter (to stay in shape for riding) to the military to being a parent and raising our kids on the farm with oodles of trips hiking, scuba diving, and more. My mind wonders to having used the knee too much - coupled with poor genetics. (sigh) I’d like to think use helped it, but maybe not.

But thinking about it all in the shower this morning… (my mental “issues”) so far when I’ve gone to the doctor for issues I’ve found out what should have been a “needs glasses” vision problem was a brain tumor - radiation might have fixed it, but apparently has caused its own issues I need to deal with for the rest of my life. What should have been a progression of asthma (previously "diagnosed by the Navy ending my AF career in my young adult stage) ended up showing I never had asthma (whole life got messed up by a wrong diagnosis) and merely adds to the radiation issues. Live with limited activity as there’s no fix. What were lumps under my arm remain undiagnosed and still there - no solution - live with it.

Every “problem” is still there. The only one fixed was carpal tunnel (which didn’t seem to be carpal to my body since it affected the radial nerve, but tests showed it was carpal and surgery definitely fixed it). I suppose I can add that I have three terrific lads from what seemed to be (and was) pregnancy, but otherwise…

My mind plays out something to the effect of going to the doctor and finding out this knee problem is an unusual parasite I picked up from a meteorite somewhere - it might be deadly later, but there’s no fix, so deal with it. I can jump to the “deal with it” stage without needing to know the cause.

There are the athletic trainers at school or the Anatomy teacher (who was a PA before switching to teaching) I can check with for exercise ideas. Med school lad tells me they’ll be learning about joints soon. He’ll soon be an asset. I can still try google this weekend. If I could do the MRI (or whatever) on my own without needing to involve a doctor I’d add that info, but I can’t so I’ll work off symptoms.

Then… if (maybe when) I get another few days where it is causing problems like the past two, that could tip the scale mentally and I know where the walk in Orthopedics place is. They’re the ones who fixed carpal tunnel.