Talk to me about knee problems

Well I tweaked my knee pretty bad and have barely been able to walk for a few days now.

My question is, the tendon that is right below your knee cap..is that the ACL? It feels different on my injured knee, like it is maybe not all there. Is it possible to partially tear that yet still be able to limp around?

It has been feeling better as time goes by, so maybe it was just a sprain? I have no health insurance so I am trying to avoid dr's if possible.

 

i don't know. occasionally (not nearly as often now as in high school) my knees will get painfully stiff to the point that i can't bend them, and can't put any weight on them unless they are perfectly straight. sometimes they even swell up from it.

i know i didn't answer your questions at all; but yeah, still talking about knee problems.

 

probably get better when it heals up just try not to do to much stuff on it

a couple weeks ago i got hit by the invisible hand

i was all drunk on whiskey i was talking to my cousin then all of a sudden i went all quiet then slowly fell over then banged my head on the concrete ground

still hurts a little today

 

Also now I am worried about putting too much strain on it, and I am very active

 

might help to wrap it up before physical activity. of course i don't know shit about medical things, just a guess.

 

Whoa! That is exactly what happened to me. I have to walk around keeping my leg completely straight or its severe pain. And it is swollen below my knee cap. Obviously there was trauma that caused it in my case, but it sounds similar.

I have had problems with it before though, sometimes it hurts when I am running, and I was already wearing a brace when I thrashed it

 

when i was 11 i fell down and landed on some jagged tin roofing...slit my left knee open almost to the kneecap...its never been the same since...it pops and cracks...gets sore with the weather changes...

 

Just last week I hurt my knee!
What are the chances? xD
Its when I sit crosslegged for too long, then my left knee goes stiff and hurts.
I took some vits (glucosamine to be precise) and that fixed it.
Then like a day or two later, it hurts again.
So i took another one, and its fine.

But i dont want to have to take them regularly.

 

stay unactive for the day and ingest a good amount of painkillers.

 

Hahaha been there man :cheers2:

 

well i've never been to a doctor or anything about it, so i'm really not sure what it is. but for me, it usually gets better on its own after a day or two. i don't think it has ever lasted more than a week at a time.

 

Ewww that sounds fucking gnar. I had a few bad slices growing up but not on my knee

Mine pops too, fuck I must be getting old already.

 

Glucosamine sounds really familiar. Thanks I will have to check that out

 

I snapped my patella in two about 4 years ago. That was fucking sore.

 

My buddy gave me some vic's, but they are gone already and the pain remains

 

sucks.

I was just kidding though. drugs are never the answer!

 

Wait....what??

Oh fuck I just looked at a knee diagram, and I know I must have torn or the tweaked one of those ligaments hard. My knee tried to bend sideways and it hurt bad.

If you tear one, do they regrow to full strength or will I be plagued now?

 

They took away my pain, temporarily

 

Yeah. I also didn't go to the doctor's for 2 days. I tried to limp it off. Big mistake.

I know my brother tore his cruciate ligament a few times playing basketball as a teen, but he hasn't had many problems since. He doesn't play basketball though.