Time for another question - my 10-month-old left knee hurts quite a bit more than my 2-month-old right knee. It hurts along the outside edge of the knee, and it hurts whether I've been sitting, standing or walking. At least the newer knee mostly only hurts when I first get up after sitting or when I've overdone things. But the older knee just hurts - pretty much all the time. Does anybody have any ideas of why? And is this common and will probably go away? Both knees are moderately swollen, btw, and I spend most of the day sitting at a desk.
As for an update, the 2-month-old knee is doing pretty well. I only took the Flexeril for 2 nights - it made me antsy and sleeping was even worse. But for whatever reason the leg spasms have pretty much stopped anyway. Thank goodness!!!!
I'm still taking Percocet 5/325 at night when I go to bed, usually another one when I wake up around 2 am, and maybe one more at mid-day if 2 extra-strength Tylenol doesn't do the trick. I'm slowly weaning off of them but I find that if I go too long without one the pain does build up - it takes longer for the pain to build up than it used to so I consider that to be progress.
Sleep is still hit-or-miss, but I'm getting hits a bit more often. Last night was pretty bad but the 2 nights before that weren't bad at all - I snuggled down in the bed and slept several hours at a time! I can sleep on my side now and that really helps. If I can get the stray pains settled down (refer back to my comment about going too long without taking a Percocet) and if I can get my cat to leave me alone, then I think I'll be doing great as far as sleep goes. I continue to thank the Lord that I work from home and have the ability to go lay down for 15 to 30 minutes when I get really sleepy. I don't know how I would have made it this far otherwise.
I had my last PT session last week and he seemed to think it was a good time to push harder than he had before. I'm wondering if that's why my older knee is still so sore, even tho the younger knee has recovered? Anyway, now I'm on my own for exercise. So far I only go for short walks down the sidewalk (about 3 houses) before I come back, and I do some light housework around the house (laundry, dishes, dusting, bed-making, etc.). I'd like to get to the point where I can walk to the mailbox (about 7 houses) but right now the heat index is about 102 and it's just too hot. I also need to start going to the gym and doing some work on the recumbant bikes and so forth.
That's it for now. If anybody has experience or knowledge about the pain along the outside of my 10-month-old knee I'd love to hear it!
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But then I remembered that knife-in-the-kneecap feeling I used to have and realized it was the right thing to do.
