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Wondering how knee pain started off for everybody. Currently mine only comes on during running, going up and down stairs and after sitting cross legged. It is a dull kind of pain and hurts when I press on it, it’s on the outside of my knee. Could it still be osteoarthritis?
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Anhaga millie98372
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Do you think it could be an injury? If you are a runner - or even if you aren't - you might have strained something which needs time, and probably rest. to heal. If there is doubt about an osteoarthritis diagnosis you can get confirmation from x-ray. I don't think there are any blood tests for OA, and even visual evaluation by a professional may be incorrect. If you have a soft tissue injury you do need to treat it correctly. I thought I had worsening OA (and yes I do have OA confirmed by x-ray) but it turned out to be some sort of soft tissue injury which needed support, rest and expert physio exercises to treat. It took far longer to get better than it should have because of the assumptions made by my medical people, including an otherwise brilliant physiotherapist and an orthopod who I saw to ask about knee replacement. They all assumed it was OA and in fact the OA was not the problem, even thought I do have quite serious OA. I took it on myself to research and after deciding I would assume it was soft tissue injury (I actually remembered the day I twisted my knee but everyone else dismissed that as not important) with help from the physiotherapist I gradually got better.
jayhutch82369 millie98372
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Well for me, it came sporadically over the course of three years. I initially thought is was a muscle pain, didn't take much notice of [ even when the back of my knee was swollen]. It lasted for a few hours, days sometimes. It started with the right knee and then the left never at the same time until five weeks ago. There was stiffness and pain when walking that gradually intensified until I had to be in bed for a week. Both legs were swollen from the thighs to the knees, the right being more affected. I had no body heat, couldn't not feel when heat was being applied to it to help with the swollen. About two and a half weeks ago, I was diagnosed with mild tricompartmental OA in both knees. Nothing makes sense to me right now, every doctors appointment leaves me more confused than the last. I've been to the GP once every week for the five weeks, and I feel there is very little answers coming forth at the moment. There some days that are good, others no so much.