ow, my knee

[coffeetime]

After working for over a year to slowly build strength enough that I can do squats, deadlifts and lunges again, I woke up this morning with a nasty, unrelenting pain behind my left kneecap that will NOT go away. It's possibly related to my shoes--I've been not wearing my newer "athletic" orthotics because they were making my toes hurt. Then ALL of my shoes--street shoes included--started making my toes hurt and the only thing that didn't hurt was going barefoot. I am not a 5-fingers person and will not start being one any time soon; I have extremely flexible, wide, flat feet and that's what the orthotics are for. I started wearing my rigid non-gym orthotics in the one pair of street shoes that will accommodate them, all day Thursday, all day Friday, and all day yesterday when I was out of the house (about half the day). I wore my fancy gym orthotics in my running shoes when I worked out (elliptical, rower, recumbent bike since I was planning to lift the next day) Friday. Yesterday I was too busy to go to the gym at all.

Holy buckets, this hurts, and I've done nothing to bring it on! do I have to go back to never lifting with legs/hips/butt again? GRRR.

I have an appointment with the podiatrist Tuesday, but I don't have a lot of hope. And I can't take any more ibuprofen. I've taken a lot over the years for the chronic headaches I had (weekly or more for 5 years) and I save ibuprofen for the worst headaches, nothing else. I'm just limping and taking Tylenol.

Ice made it ache 10x worse. :(

Comments

[lyorn]

:-(

Did anything in the knee go "snap" or "crack" at some point? If so, you probably should get an MRT of the knee done to see if any parts have come loose.

Is the knee stable, or does it feel wobbly and breakable?
Does heat help? Around here, it's joint pain season, as my hands are letting me know.

Sending good thoughts your way for recovery!

[coffeetime]

It just hurts, and if I kneel on it, it feels "wrong," but it didn't snap, pop or anything else. Actually, by Monday about 2 p.m. it was probably 50% better, which is much faster than I'd normally heal. I did straight-legged deadlifts that day and felt no worse. Tuesdays I almost always take off from working out. Today I just did pull-up prep work and skipped the lower body. But except for kneeling right on that knee, it's almost gone now...I might try squatting tomorrow with less weight than usual.

It was my orthotics, I know it. The doctor didn't have good advice for me. ARGH.