Is there a doctor in the house?

[l3ills]

Yesterday on my way out of the DR.'s office ( I have an ear infection) I slipped and fell directly onto my left knee.....hurt like hell....but I found it funny (thats the way I am) I thought I should just run back inside yelling "lawsuit!" But I just got to my feet and drove home....On the way back it felt like my knee was on fire and it ached. I thought I would just walk it off but everytime my pants rubbed against my knee it burned badly. So I sucked it up walked into my house and went on with my daily routine with a bit of a limp.

This morning I woke up and my knee was completely numb...I mean I cant feel anything at all....unless I press on it....then it goes back to burning like hell. I can walk just fine.....no bruising at all....maybe some swelling but its too hard to tell.


So does anyone know what is wrong with my knee?

[Mouldsie]

rub some dirt on it

[Gibby]

I think its whispering something to you. Its saying "lawsuit"

[Jayhawk]

not enough sex in your life

[Ru]

Sounds an awful lot like syphilis to me.

[Julianna]

I'm in the medical field:

Although it is the following day after you had fallen in front of the doctors office, you do need to call that office this morning and tell them what happened on their property. Not that I'm telling you that you have a lawsuit, but what was the surroundings? Snow? Ice? Your fault? Either way that office needs to be notified. As far as your knee is concerned you can not feel your knee because of the swelling. The swelling from your fall is most likely pressing on the nerves in your knee in which you can only feel when you press on it. The good news? Your young and this will heal. What to do? You really have no choice but to see the best for a injury like this, a sports medicine doctor. I'm not kidding. I know your thinking $$$$ in medical visits if you have no insurance or maybe just in co-pays, but that ties into you letting the office that you did fall in front of know of what happened. That office just might pay your medical tabs. Let me know how this works for you.

[l3ills]

I'm in the medical field:

Although it is the following day after you had fallen in front of the doctors office, you do need to call that office this morning and tell them what happened on their property. Not that I'm telling you that you have a lawsuit, but what was the surroundings? Snow? Ice? Your fault? Either way that office needs to be notified. As far as your knee is concerned you can not feel your knee because of the swelling. The swelling from your fall is most likely pressing on the nerves in your knee in which you can only feel when you press on it. The good news? Your young and this will heal. What to do? You really have no choice but to see the best for a injury like this, a sports medicine doctor. I'm not kidding. I know your thinking $$$$ in medical visits if you have no insurance or maybe just in co-pays, but that ties into you letting the office that you did fall in front of know of what happened. That office just might pay your medical tabs. Let me know how this works for you.



Yeah the ramp outside of the door was all ice....lots of people were slipping....My knee is definitely swollen....and now when I bend it I can feel something stretching inside my knee.

Thanks for the advice!

[Julianna]

Please for your own health now and in the future, have that knee looked at.
Also make sure you place a call to that MD's office that you had fallen at. Good luck and keep me posted. :)

[Mouldsie]

Rice!

and drink some fish oil and eat protein with pineapple for the inflammation, yeaaaaaa digs

[35Pete]

I'm in the medical field:

Although it is the following day after you had fallen in front of the doctors office, you do need to call that office this morning and tell them what happened on their property. Not that I'm telling you that you have a lawsuit, but what was the surroundings? Snow? Ice? Your fault? Either way that office needs to be notified. As far as your knee is concerned you can not feel your knee because of the swelling. The swelling from your fall is most likely pressing on the nerves in your knee in which you can only feel when you press on it. The good news? Your young and this will heal. What to do? You really have no choice but to see the best for a injury like this, a sports medicine doctor. I'm not kidding. I know your thinking $$$$ in medical visits if you have no insurance or maybe just in co-pays, but that ties into you letting the office that you did fall in front of know of what happened. That office just might pay your medical tabs. Let me know how this works for you.


The perineal and tibial nerves are proximate in this area if memory serves me right. Seems that all the major innervation is buried in deep muscle (for a reason) so that this inflammation must be pretty damned serious.

If that's the case I'd see an orthopod to perhaps see if corticosteriods are a possible indication. What's your take?

Coastal would be a good one to weigh in on this. More than me.

[l3ills]

The perineal and tibial nerves are proximate in this area if memory serves me right. Seems that all the major innervation is buried in deep muscle (for a reason) so that this inflammation must be pretty damned serious.

If that's the case I'd see an orthopod to perhaps see if corticosteriods are a possible indication. What's your take?

Coastal would be a good one to weigh in on this. More than me.



Thanks for the advice Pete....I'll keep you guys posted.

[Jayhawk]

The perineal and tibial nerves are proximate in this area if memory serves me right. Seems that all the major innervation is buried in deep muscle (for a reason) so that this inflammation must be pretty damned serious.

If that's the case I'd see an orthopod to perhaps see if corticosteriods are a possible indication. What's your take?

Coastal would be a good one to weigh in on this. More than me.
DUDE, is there something you don't know about ? :D

[35Pete]

DUDE, is there something you don't know about ? :D

Bro. I have 337 college credit hours or something like that. Three degrees and enough for almost 4. I LOVE seeking knowledge.

Almost went to med school. Bitch ex-fiance talked me out of it. :(

[Mouldsie]

i just bruised my left knee today.... i realy hope it heals fast -idk if i could go for 1-2 weeks without running or playing some sport

[Julianna]

Bro. I have 337 college credit hours or something like that. Three degrees and enough for almost 4. I LOVE seeking knowledge.

Almost went to med school. Bitch ex-fiance talked me out of it. :(



Good for you Pete! Nothing wrong with knowledge. :)

[Julianna]

i just bruised my left knee today.... i realy hope it heals fast -idk if i could go for 1-2 weeks without running or playing some sport



Don't screw with that! You should see a MD too.

[nehemiah]

doctors are idiots.

just RICE it. you'll be alright.

[JLB]

i just bruised my left knee today.... i realy hope it heals fast -idk if i could go for 1-2 weeks without running or playing some sport

Where's the chicken I miss the chicken.

Oh the knee just rub some dirt on it.

[Julianna]

doctors are idiots.

just RICE it. you'll be alright.



I'm sorry Nehe, I didn't get what medical school you earned your degree from.

[WhiteRabbit]

I'm sorry Nehe, I didn't get what medical school you earned your degree from.

I take it that you're a doctor?

This is a great thread, fun to read :D

[35Pete]

There are many natural nutritional approaches to take to MAINTAIN good health.

But I think the "hate western medicine" stuff is just utter ignorant crap. People that propagate alternative treatments for serious medical issues are going beyond arrogance. They are propagating harm to others. A form of layman's quackery.

I received some quack advice from some here when I was losing innervation in my lower arm and hand. Had I waiting and tried the nutrtional/herbal/holistic horse shit that some suggested I would have never had any recovery from the injury as the surgery would have been useless at that point.

Anyone advocating non-traditional cures for anything more than a cold needs a big swig of :stfu: 'edness pronto.

[nehemiah]

it's a knee bruise.

don't be a wuss.

give it some time to heal before you pay some quack to poke/prod and then tell you: "let it rest for 2 weeks, you will be fine".

[nehemiah]

I'm sorry Nehe, I didn't get what medical school you earned your degree from.i'm too smart for medical school.

i have no desire to be a professional memorizer.

[35Pete]

it's a knee bruise.

don't be a wuss.

give it some time to heal before you pay some quack to poke/prod and then tell you: "let it rest for 2 weeks, you will be fine".

No, actually I'd give it a few days. Then I'd get it checked to see if he has a chip fracture or something like that. If it starts to get better than leave it be. If not then be safe about it and get it checked out.

[Julianna]

I take it that you're a doctor?

This is a great thread, fun to read :D


No, but I'm the next best thing to one

[Julianna]

it's a knee bruise.

don't be a wuss.

give it some time to heal before you pay some quack to poke/prod and then tell you: "let it rest for 2 weeks, you will be fine".



Hey Nehe-why don't you just tell him to spray Windex on it?

[Julianna]

No, actually I'd give it a few days. Then I'd get it checked to see if he has a chip fracture or something like that. If it starts to get better than leave it be. If not then be safe about it and get it checked out.


Good advise

[nehemiah]

Hey Nehe-why don't you just tell him to spray Windex on it?windex? that's crazy talk.

rub some dirt on it and walk it off.

[Julianna]

windex? that's crazy talk.

rub some dirt on it and walk it off.



Just a joke from that movie "My Big Fat Greek Wedding"
The father thought Windex was a cure-all. Have you seen the movie?

[WhiteRabbit]

No, but I'm the next best thing to one

Oh, okay. I thought with you wanting to verify if some one has been to medical school to make their advice credible -- you would have attended medical school yourself.

It all makes sense now ...

[JLB]

Oh the knee just rub some dirt on it.

Nehe is correct I have proof look at my own quote lol.

[Mouldsie]

Where's the chicken I miss the chicken.

Oh the knee just rub some dirt on it.

Good call on the dirt, I forgot my own advice then this morning i went to go get some dirt and the ground was frozen.... might run to wal-mart later today and buy a bag of soil

[Mouldsie]

There are many natural nutritional approaches to take to MAINTAIN good health.

But I think the "hate western medicine" stuff is just utter ignorant crap. People that propagate alternative treatments for serious medical issues are going beyond arrogance. They are propagating harm to others. A form of layman's quackery.

I received some quack advice from some here when I was losing innervation in my lower arm and hand. Had I waiting and tried the nutrtional/herbal/holistic horse shit that some suggested I would have never had any recovery from the injury as the surgery would have been useless at that point.

Anyone advocating non-traditional cures for anything more than a cold needs a big swig of :stfu: 'edness pronto.


link?

[Mouldsie]

Dont worry nehemiah, I'm not going to a doc, I dont have insurance yet anyway.


but this had to be the strangest injury I've ever experienced.... when I first got hit in the knee it stung a lot, then 5-10 seconds later after trying to walk/jog it off, my knee locked up and I couldnt walk or bend it (scariest worst feeling I've had in awhile physically). I had to lay down on the court for like 10 minutes (worrying about what happened) then I got up and hopped on one leg (still couldnt bend it) to the sideline and sat on a table for another 10 minutes and then I was able to walk. I didnt know what was up but I tried playing b-ball again and that wasn't happening so I limped to my car went to wegmans and got some food and ice and iced all night and figured out it was a bruise. I still couldnt put much pressure on it when i went to bed. I read that it can take up to 2 weeks for a knee bruise to heal too so I was worried about not being able to work out or whatnot but when I woke up this morning I could jog so I think I'll be 100% in a couple days.

Life is good.

[l3ills]

Update: Went to the Docs today....Damaged the tendon on the front of my knee....and some serious damage to the nerve ending in my knee....cant sit or stand for too long and have to ice it alot...Tendon will take a month to heal but the nerves wont heal for a while....also cant climb any steps....kind of sucks.

The checkup was free of charge.

[smashingt2312]

Update: Went to the Docs today....Damaged the tendon on the front of my knee....and some serious damage to the nerve ending in my knee....cant sit or stand for too long and have to ice it alot...Tendon will take a month to heal but the nerves wont heal for a while....also cant climb any steps....kind of sucks.

The checkup was free of charge.

Uggh, tore a tendon in my wrist one time, not nice at all. Hope it feels better soon.

[Mouldsie]

sorry to hear bro, life is not so good i guess

go to PT if it will help... i had shin splint problems for years and went to PT for it after a serious bout with them and therapists are sweet, havent had a problem since.

[l3ills]

I guess I was lucky though....if I had landed just a bit differently I would have shattered my knee cap.

[Julianna]

man honey I'm sorry! Hope you feel better soon, abd did ypu notify that doctors office in which you fell in front of?

[35Pete]

Update: Went to the Docs today....Damaged the tendon on the front of my knee....and some serious damage to the nerve ending in my knee....cant sit or stand for too long and have to ice it alot...Tendon will take a month to heal but the nerves wont heal for a while....also cant climb any steps....kind of sucks.

The checkup was free of charge.

Nerves, when they heal, heal at a rate of 1 mm a day. So it will take a while.

This is why you should not take the advice of the holistic crowd. They'd have told you to rub some dirt on it. :D

[Mouldsie]

Dirt seemed to work great for me, I'm healing pretty fast and haven't given my leg much rest in 2 days :D

[35Pete]

Dirt seemed to work great for me, I'm healing pretty fast and haven't given my leg much rest in 2 days :D

:rofl:

Actually I laughed pretty damned hard when you said that earlier. Gift coming up. :rofl:

[l3ills]

man honey I'm sorry! Hope you feel better soon, abd did ypu notify that doctors office in which you fell in front of?


I went back to the same place....was that a bad decision?

[35Pete]

I went back to the same place....was that a bad decision?

All I could do was advise you to see the MD. Ask the PTs around here for follow-up treatment. They're qualified, we're not.

[Julianna]

I went back to the same place....was that a bad decision?



You did great. :)