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I first started having pain and a lump under my knee whe...

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I first started having pain and a lump under my knee when i was 8 yrs old but was told it was growing pains, therefore i continued with my routine of dance practice 6times a week. it was only in 2003 after yrs of pain that a doctor finally diagnosed osgood schlatters disease and refered me to hospital. i have received an appointment 4 the yr 2008 as apparantly my ailment is not dehabilitating. wel as the mother of 2 young children i can assure you it is. i can no longer take my children up and down the stairs 2 bed. i have 2 rely on a family member to do that as i can no longer bear weight on my knees. i can not squat or kneel and if i attempt it am left in considerable pain and my leg swells and becomes briused. its about time doctors took this condition seriously!

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    Reading this lady's story was like reading my own - I was diagnosed with OSD at 11 and wore a back splint on my whole leg for about 2 months , but it was a couple of years before I could bend my leg properly .I also had ultrasound therapy . It didn't stop me doing anything in my youth , but boy , now I'm in my late thirties my knees are destroyed - I can't kneel at all and walking up and down stairs is excrutiating - like gravel . Don't tell me that there isn't a link ! Any parents out there take your kids aches and pains seriously . I was an active kid , not excessively sporty . To the young footballer - don't give up hope , I knew a player who had the condition and it never stopped him , but your knees won't thank you when you are older !:?

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    My best advice that I can give you from my expirience is to take ibrufen and use ice cubes on the knee area for around 15/20mins when it begins to hurt. I was unable to play football for my team for up to 6 months. I now realize that if i hadnt have used ice then it would have taken much longer! Once i used the ice i then stretched my leg muscles so that i could still have good movement without it feeling very stiff. I did not entirely stop sports. I still carried on doing calmer activities such as gentle swimming to keep fit.

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    i definalty agree that doctors should know more about this condition and im glad im not the only one hat thinks that! i was diagnosed with it nearly 5yrs ago and have gone down so many different path ways to ease the pain! ive recently had key hole surgery in which i had little cameras put into my knees to see what is wrong! it turns out that i have very little or no cartalidge!

    however now the pain is worse and all the doctors seem to do is just give me a different set of tablets and tell me to come back in 2 yrs! its so annoying!

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