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Oh holy carp ow
Sep. 4th, 2012 09:55 pmSo I've been having problems with my left knee for about a month and a half -- not really anything easy to describe, but general achiness. Went to my doctor about a week into August, just to make sure there wasn't anything weird beyond the usual levels of weird for my body. He said that based on where the pain was and how it behaved, it was in the muscles rather than the joint, and it would go away.
And it did slowly start getting better.
And them within the last week or so, it's gotten worse.
Different sort of worse, too. It's really more in the shin than the knee; it also doesn't hurt all the time, just when I bend the knee or when I stand. Which is at minimum done twice each time I go to the bathroom. All the leg muscles around it start locking up when it's hurting, the sort of thing where it takes me a while to get stuff to relax, and the transition between locked-up and relaxed hurts like hell, almost as much as trying to stand on it does.
And. Um.
I have enough chronic pain issues that my personal pain scale -- the "on a scale of one to ten" thing that they ask you at the doctor -- is skewed. It isn't that I don't feel pain, because I do, but I have a wacky high tolerance for it. One of my PAs and I have a sort of running not-quite-joke along the lines of, if my arm got chopped off I wouldn't notice until someone said something, and even then wouldn't think to take a painkiller.
By tonight, standing resulted in pain strong enough that I was shaking.
That ... is really not a good sign.
(and I hate that I have no alternatives to it; there is really no other way at all of getting me onto the toilet, or getting my pants pulled up in the morning, or whatever. Okay, so I could get by with a towel as a pseudo skirt if I didn't plan on leaving the house, but toilet stuff is kind of unavoidable)
And it did slowly start getting better.
And them within the last week or so, it's gotten worse.
Different sort of worse, too. It's really more in the shin than the knee; it also doesn't hurt all the time, just when I bend the knee or when I stand. Which is at minimum done twice each time I go to the bathroom. All the leg muscles around it start locking up when it's hurting, the sort of thing where it takes me a while to get stuff to relax, and the transition between locked-up and relaxed hurts like hell, almost as much as trying to stand on it does.
And. Um.
I have enough chronic pain issues that my personal pain scale -- the "on a scale of one to ten" thing that they ask you at the doctor -- is skewed. It isn't that I don't feel pain, because I do, but I have a wacky high tolerance for it. One of my PAs and I have a sort of running not-quite-joke along the lines of, if my arm got chopped off I wouldn't notice until someone said something, and even then wouldn't think to take a painkiller.
By tonight, standing resulted in pain strong enough that I was shaking.
That ... is really not a good sign.
(and I hate that I have no alternatives to it; there is really no other way at all of getting me onto the toilet, or getting my pants pulled up in the morning, or whatever. Okay, so I could get by with a towel as a pseudo skirt if I didn't plan on leaving the house, but toilet stuff is kind of unavoidable)