My GOOD knee

[gja1000]

There must be something in the water - I have another health issue!!!

When I was 16, I blew out the ACL in my knee (anterior cruciate knee ligament) playing basketball. Presently, when an athlete tears an ACL, they graft a new one in its place and the knee is usually about as good as new. Back in the olden days when I hurt my knee, no such procedure existed. So my knee is missing the ACL and is very unstable and I have to be careful not to do any twisting motions with it. That means I rely on my other (good) knee to do most of the work. The bad knee is doing pretty well, it gives me a bit of minor trouble from time to time, but it doesn't have any arthritis, and no chronic pain, so I can live with the limitations.

A few years ago, I hyperextended the "good" knee. It hurt really bad but got well eventually. Since then, it has given me some trouble too, but not much. The last couple of days, the good knee felt sorta funny at times, like there was a bubble or something inside - very hard to explain. It didn't really hurt, just felt funny.

Well, last night I went to bed and everything was hunky dory. I woke up about 3:00AM and when I moved, "OUCH!". My goodness, I have not had this kind of knee pain since I hyperextended it. I got up, limped to the bathroom, and took some Advil. I thought I had slept on it wrong and it would be OK when I woke up. WRONG. It is giving me fits today. I'm OK when walking around, not too much pain, but when I sit down it gets so stiff and when I get up - MAN OH MAN - it hurts. I just elevated it, put an ice pack on it, and took some more Advil and it feels better. I sure wish I knew what happened!