Well, I sprained my knee twice in the past 18 months, so I'm not rejecting the possibility of it causing the issues with at least my foot... He didn't look at my back though, which stumped me... I do suspect that I will have to go the orthopedic doctor(they have better imaging there, the PCP could only get an x-ray) but I will follow orders the best I can... He did tell me to take it easy and to use ice on my leg/knee...

 

I am making a note- before taking my first dose of the new medicine(half hour ago), I was in minimal pain from my hamstring area and only mild pain in the tendon in my knee... Maybe the doctor has a point...

 

a lot of the doctors these days prefer to address the "what active symptoms to you have today in my office" rather than take the time to find the root cause of the symptoms. I call it "assembly line medicine." They treat your immediate acute active symptoms and pass you off to someone else. Don't get me wrong, I hope he's right -- I don't want to see you suffer. However, if you told this doctor the history of the back involvement and pain above your knee and he doesn't examine your lower back, he sounds like one of those docs who doesn't want to get involved in finding the root cause -- he'd rather just treat the symptoms.

So it's gonna be up to YOU to seek out the appropriate types of doctors to find the root cause if it is not your knee. I will be very happy for you if it's all related to your knee, but if not, you may have to taper off all anti inflammatorys and go to the orthhopaedist as a total mess for someone to take you seriously and refer you to a neurologist and possibly spine expert depending on what the xrays / mri's show

My neurologist flatly refused to consider that the majority of my dizziness was related to any part of my neck. He would not order an x ray of my neck. I needed one before the PT people would touch my neck.

What did I do? I went and found a spinal specialist on my own and self referred my self (my plan lets me do that) based on a recommendation from my hand doctor.

I hope this is the answer for you, but if not, you may need to show up to the orthopaedist a mess for him to realize you need to see a neurologist and get a referral on the spot.

We'll know the answer in 2 weeks.

Sorry to be so skeptical in light of your decreasing pain -- I AM happy you are suffering less -- but treating today's symptoms with no intent on tracking down the root cause is a huge disservice to the patient.

Always remember that YOU are in charge of the care you receive--if you're not getting what you need, go get it.

 

Well hope for your sake its your knee.

 

I'm hoping that it's my knee, but I doubt it... However, the pain is somehow shrinking, with the majority of the pain being behind my knee, in the outer tendon... I have forgotten to take a couple doses of the medication, so it will take slightly more than two weeks to find out for sure...

 

the pain is shrinking as the anti inflammatory is apparently reducing inflammation in multiple locations. It'll kick *** if the anti inflammatory reduces enough of the other inflammation to break the cycle of irritation that's probably occurring in your lower back or near your hip.

Only one way to tell.

Pullin for ya!

 

Keep us updated

 

I'm hoping beyond hope that once the inflammation is beat down enough, it just stays gone, but I fear it will return...

Even though, if I have to do a quarterly regimen to keep the pain down, it'll be worth it to have my life back...

Before I posted here, I was legitimately scared that the unbearable pain was going to be for the remainder of my life...

 

Suck it up buttercup ;-)

 

Don't you let Momma down...