Patience is a virtue. Just not one of MINE.

[commodorified]

The more I do towards making my hip better, the worse my knee gets. There's an impressive temperature difference between my two legs atm, too.

I mean, I know precisely what's wrong: I do any exercise at all and the swelling of the bursae starts causing restricted circulation and nerve impingement and also displacing the tops of several things which terminate at the knee just enough to cause trouble at the bottom.

Not exercising, however, makes me crazy, does nothing to fix the various imbalances that are causing this whole problem, and leaves me unfit and therefore both unhappy and more vulnerable to additional trouble.

The cortisone shots appointment can't happen soon enough. And I have just been persuaded to buy the GOOD (read: $75) kneepads for skating in.

Because 1) That's ouchy but also less than the cost of two physio appointments.

And 2) I had managed to forget between my high school days and now just how badly I cope with knee pain.

Comments

[sara]

I hear you -- since the car accident last fall, doing anything like my usual level of exercise messes up my back and gives me headaches. But without, the rest of me feels flabby and cruddy.

[lasergirl]

Honey, you shouldn't be doing ANY falling drills if you are doing any right now, regardless of knee pads@ (I have Smith Scabs, they're wonderful!)

But we will talk. (Looks like I am driving after all: bus with stuff = irritation of a million burning suns)

[kalmn]

Knee pain sucks rocks.

[ranunculus]

I have chronic bursa swelling in both knees. It is 100% tied with other inflammitory processes in my body. If I have bad allergic/asthmatic reactions for more than a couple of days my knees swell. The more effective I am at controlling system wide inflammation the less my knees swell.

My doctor didn't believe me at first, but use of my steroid inhaler to control asthma also 100% controls my knee swelling. Also taking sufficient medication to control allergy symptoms, none of which are steroids, will control swelling. Just goes to prove there is a lot about the human body that they DON'T know.

I'll bet the cortisone helps a good deal.

[black_hound]

I spent this past winter in physical therapy for my trochanteric bursitis, complicated with ileal band dysfunction and an SI joint that is nothing but cranky (and hypermobile).

The hip is a tricky balance in terms of rehabilitation, yes. I have found that even now, with it 95% under control, I can experience blinding pain around the top of my knee. That is a huge signal for me that my SI joint is in the wrong place and needs to be put back where it belongs.

I'll raise a toast to the cortisone shot. It put the fire out in my hip right quick so that I could get on with the rehab.