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  • Kysol
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    Torn meniscus (as the specialist had described it... "extreme tear"). Now I saw the specialist in say 2012, this wasn't the first time that I had seen a doctor about my knee pain. I had seen one around 2005 where he basically said "lose some weight and your knee pains will go away". See the thing is... with this sort of pain, the last thing you want to do is exercise since walking is painful enough. You don't expect knee pain to be such an issue. I walked around on that for 7 years before seeing a specialist after injuring it further while playing Squash. I was meant to have surgery on it, but I'm stubborn (more hate operations), so I'm living out the pain. I feel fine now that I've stopped playing Squash and take care of my knees.

    • ColonBowel
      +3

      Let me relate!

      I was on the last stretch of a 3 mile jog. I had competed in half-marathons and many triathlons (Olympic and Half-Ironman distances), so 3 miles was nothing. I'm running normally when I hear a loud pop and my knee started hurting and feeling wobbly. Five minutes later, I could barely walk.

      I go to the hospital which is where primary care clinic is at. Also, I had a terrible health care team at the time. I waited 3 hours before seeing the nurse. She asked me what happened and glanced at my knee. She told me to go wait in the waiting area until the doctors calls me back. I waited another 4 hours to see the doctor...except I didn't see the doc. Instead, the same nurse came out to tell me to go to the prosthetics service and pick up a cloth knee brace. Keep in mind that I could barely walk. It took me 15 mins to walk down the hall, something that would take a healthy able-bodied person a minute at most. I come back to the clinic and check in to wait for the nurse again. She calls me back and "teaches" me how to slip it on. Then, tells me to pick up a prescription at the hospital pharmacy. It was 1 of 3 refills of 100 x 325mg of acetaminophen. WTF?! I went home pissed out of my mind, thinking that it would go away eventually. A month later and I'm still in bad shape. I go back and luckily actually see a doctor on another team since mine wasn't in that day. He orders an x-ray and then an MRI. They show a torn meniscus. Get surgery and it turned out I had a complex tear with swollen plica. They took out half of the meniscus and now I can't run much anymore :(

      tl;dr: knee pain, shit health care, turns out it was a complex torn meniscus

      • Kysol
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        aaaaaw crap. Yeah the pop is what happened to me. The complete loss of stability is horrible when you work up on the top floor of a place with only steps. Takes you 2 minutes to get up a flight, and even longer on the way down because you don't want to fall.