So I got it checked out...

[imabrat]

Tell them my story then.

Okay, here comes Dr. Sonya LOL!
Is it a sharp, stinging pain? Or a dull pain?
Take a look at this scale, what number matches your pain during the day? At night?

 

[Babyjustrun]

Probably 3.
Sometimes I don't notice it until after a while because my feet hurt a lot from standing all day from work heh.

Usually, it's like... throbbing pain? I wish they hurt right now so I could explain. It feels like I've never unbent my knees. And sometimes when I'm walking my knee... I dunno it makes a popping feeling and then I'm walking kinda strange.

 

[imabrat]

Does it feel like bone pain? (Deep within)
Or muscle/skin pain? (Not so deep, more surfacing)

This'll sound weird, but non-bone pain feels "closer" to your skin. When it's bone pain, you can feel it racking in there.

 

[Babyjustrun]

Definitely not my skin, my skin is never in pain. It feels like the kneecap is in pain.
I find, when I squat, I have a hard time getting up using my own body weight. I need to use something nearby to help me up. If I have something heavy like my bookbag on my back and try to do it without something to hold onto, I basically fall over, it's too much pressure on my knees.

 

[chisnpeke]

I would go to the doctor as soon as possible. That weight loss is not good at all.

 

[imabrat]

Hill, does it feel like your kneecap is shifted?

Mouse, are you dehydrated? Anemic? Both caused me to lose weight. Literally, I went shopping for shorts one day, size 6 was a little snug, but still loose. 2 days and not enough fluids later, I'd lost 5 lbs and my size 6 shorts were too big.

 

[Babyjustrun]

I mentioned before, sometimes when I walk it feels like it does...
If that makes sense?
You know like if you bend your leg up to your chin it'll like pop or whatever?
It does that sometimes when I walk

 

[imabrat]

Whoops.
Popping you say? I really don't know what could cause that other than a weak knee. Crossing your knees would cause that.
Don't take my word for it though, merely just an assumption. I'd still get it checked out.

 

[Ms.Squeakers]

Hill, does it feel like your kneecap is shifted?

Mouse, are you dehydrated? Anemic? Both caused me to lose weight. Literally, I went shopping for shorts one day, size 6 was a little snug, but still loose. 2 days and not enough fluids later, I'd lost 5 lbs and my size 6 shorts were too big.

Yes.
Actually, for anemic yes.
Last year we figured that out, Im on slowfe for it.
Dehydrated, im not sure.
Water SHOULD be the thing for me to be drinking, but instead im hooked on Vitamin Water.

Im getting it checked out tomorrow.
I just dont want to go, and have them say "WOW...SUCK IT UP, BE A WOMAN, DEAL WITH IT.". even though its the doctors, and i dont think they will EVER do that, im still subconsciously afraid.

Maybe, its because thats what my parents always tell me.

"Walk on it"
"Eat more"
"Take Motrin"
"Try those icy-hot pads"

And..I do.

Not helping.
Tomorrow Im going to get it straightened out.

 

[imabrat]

A good doctor will never say suck it up.

Unless you've a history of mental problems. Sometimes the pain can be all in your head, especially with physcological problems.

 

[GoofysOnlyGirl]

Yeah, I would really go see a doctor especially if it is bothering you for that long of time.

 

[Babyjustrun]

Yeah, that's what I've been thinking Sonya.
Weak knees.
I'd like to get it checked out anyways, but I dunno.
I'd have to get my parents to really think it's bad enough for that.

My knee is starting to hurt now. It's more painful than usual, I guess.

 

[Ms.Squeakers]

Definitely not my skin, my skin is never in pain. It feels like the kneecap is in pain.
I find, when I squat, I have a hard time getting up using my own body weight. I need to use something nearby to help me up. If I have something heavy like my bookbag on my back and try to do it without something to hold onto, I basically fall over, it's too much pressure on my knees.

Yes!!!
I know that!!

Before my knees became like.....this, thats the way they were.


(no wonder i would get 13 minutes on the mile xD)

 

[Ms.Squeakers]

A good doctor will never say suck it up.

Unless you've a history of mental problems. Sometimes the pain can be all in your head, especially with physcological problems.

I dont believe im mental.
Then again..a mental person thinks theyre sane, when in reality theyre not..

Uhm..
Theres no way for ME to know if im sane or not

 

[princess.chell]

I find, when I squat, I have a hard time getting up using my own body weight. I need to use something nearby to help me up. If I have something heavy like my bookbag on my back and try to do it without something to hold onto, I basically fall over, it's too much pressure on my knees.

I mentioned before, sometimes when I walk it feels like it does...
If that makes sense?
You know like if you bend your leg up to your chin it'll like pop or whatever?
It does that sometimes when I walk

Sounds like me. Long story short, I was born with a messed up right knee (torn cartalige and wrong shaped meniscus). I couldnt sit indian style for a long time. I had surgury four years ago to fix it. But those symptoms are not nesseciarlly internal knee problems. While I am no knee expert, my knee specialist as well as my school athletic trainer have all briefed me on what kind of pain means I should go to the doctor because sometimes it can be growing pains. Sometimes if you knee cap feels like its popping or shifting its due to growing. Your knee cap shifts alot (naturally). But it can also be to a weak knee. If the muscles around your knee cap aren't very strong it will shift randomly causing you pain. As for the standing up thing, that can be weak knees. I have terribly weak knees and can't squat anymore.
Again all of this could be internal knee problems as well so I would get it checked out. I second imabrat to go to the doctor. An MRI or xray can prove or disprove anything.

 

[imabrat]

Sounds like me. Long story short, I was born with a messed up right knee (torn cartalige and wrong shaped meniscus). I couldnt sit indian style for a long time. I had surgury four years ago to fix it. But those symptoms are not nesseciarlly internal knee problems. While I am no knee expert, my knee specialist as well as my school athletic trainer have all briefed me on what kind of pain means I should go to the doctor because sometimes it can be growing pains. Sometimes if you knee cap feels like its popping or shifting its due to growing. Your knee cap shifts alot (naturally). But it can also be to a weak knee. If the muscles around your knee cap aren't very strong it will shift randomly causing you pain. As for the standing up thing, that can be weak knees. I have terribly weak knees and can't squat anymore.
Again all of this could be internal knee problems as well so I would get it checked out. I second imabrat to go to the doctor. An MRI or xray can prove or disprove anything.

I agree. Although, many should remember, knee pain/knee cap shifting isn't always growing pains. Rare chance it's something else. (You had torn cartiledge/odd shaped meniscus. Me, I had a tumor at the very end of my femur that shifted my knee cap to the right.)

 

[xox_Violet_xox]

i would just say always get it checked out, however insignificant or silly you think it could be

hark at me, im scared of going to the doctor in case they tell me im going to die or something

i screwed up me knee pretty badly when i was figure skating one day
ice + all your weight on one knee = bad.

it's all better now but, it hurts when the weathers cold sometimes tho
and at night sometimes, and with excesssive walking
oh and it pops sometimes and i have to push it back....

maybe ill go get checked out again

Hope you get it sortedddd

 

[Ms.Squeakers]

Thanks.


Yup.
Im definatly going.

My mom told me it was growing pains, that because im either still growing or done growing my legs were growing so fast, that all of the sudden my knees arent used to the weight of me on them, so they are trying to adjust.

Honestly.
I dont think its growing pains.
Ive had those before and know how they hurt and what they feel like, something...it doesnt feel like that sort of thing.

I just wanted this figured out, so it is best that i go to the dr.

 

[BandGeek911]

Mouse, no one is going to laugh at you.
This sounds pretty serious.
Hope you get to a hospital soon, and I hope you feel better!!

 

[Ms.Squeakers]

Mouse, no one is going to laugh at you.
This sounds pretty serious.
Hope you get to a hospital soon, and I hope you feel better!!

Well, Im going to the doctors first, but something tells me that they are going to send me to a hospital for x-rays and then they will take forever with the x-rays, and then take even longer getting them back to me, and..it will be just like the last time i was at the hospital and smeared chocolate all over the nurse xD