19-10-2015, 06:01 PM
(19-10-2015, 09:46 AM)Yorkie Wrote: Although I'm in my mid 70s (scary thought!), I'm quite active and so far haven't had any joint pain, but a few weeks ago, all of a sudden, I started getting a nasty pain in one knee. Saw the doc ... and I guess he'll conclude that it's osteoarthritis due to the ravages of time. However, it isn't something that slowly crept up on me ... I'm more inclined to think that I've damaged the cartilage in that knee ...
My experience of osteoarthritis is indeed that it creeps up on you slowly. However, about 30 years ago I tried to get out of bed one morning and experienced the most excruciating pain when my foot hit the floor.
This was a cartilage problem and I had no prior warning that anything was wrong.
Fortunately, after this initial pain, things improved a bit and I was able to walk, albeit painfully, but it did diminsh over time.
I was commuting then and one strange thing I found out by accident when running for the train one morning was that put putting most of my weight on the damaged knee as I went down the stairs to the platform was actually less painful than doing it the other way round!
By the time I got to surgery - it was quite a long wait, as I recall - it was causing me a lot less of a problem, which I told the surgeon when he came round just before the operation, wondering if it might eventually clear up on its own. He put his hands round my knee, applying pressure with one finger on each side and I nearly hit the roof!
"I'll see you in a little while", he said, before proceeding to the next bed ...
