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Having sudden knee pain (25 years old)

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guy76832
guy76832

Hi, I'm currently on a backpacking travel, and I'm having constant knee pains.

Several things happened during my trip that make it hard to understand what exactly is the cause:

1. A week before my knee started hurting, I hit my knee in a wall.

I had pains for about 3 days, when they passed, I ran 5 kilometers and had to stop due to pains.

2. On the hike, at first, I didn't feel any pains, until at some point I overstepped a step, resulting in extending my knee over its limit, and again, I had pains but they were gone after a day.

3. A day later, after going up some serious amount of stairs, and then going them down, my knee started hurting, the pain became more serious, to the point that the day after i barely able to finish the hike.

Since then, pains come and go, pretty randomly.

I do rope skipping and don't have pains at all, when I run sometimes feel pains, and when I walk, I usually do feel pains after a few kilometers hiking uphill or downhill.

Before I backpacked, I used to run half marathons, train at the gym and so. Furthermore, it is not my first backpacking, and I have never had knee issues.

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  • Dadka
    Dadka guy76832

    Posted

    Go and have it checked ASAP. 

    Could be anything , minicracture of knee cup, torn ligaments, or cartilage- longer you leave it the worst damage can be done . Now apply Rice ( rest, ice, compression and evevation)

  • CHICO_MARX
    CHICO_MARX guy76832

    Posted

    Agreed. STOP all knee activity and see and orthopedist, NOT your GP.  Get some imaging and a diagnosis.
  • jenny61596
    jenny61596 guy76832

    Posted

    I would rest it and get it looked at when home as you could have done something for example torn your meniscus , keep going when it’s hurting is just going to make it worse . It doesn’t take much to tear it, and you don’t always feel when you do it till next days . 
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