It's been a bad week...

[geminigirl]

Monday was heavy rains, and so our basement flooded. While cleaning up the flood, I managed to slip and hyperextend my knee. Tuesday I went to the gym, and somehow, without noticing moved weirdly enough (probably compensating for the knee) that I pulled both hamstring muscles. (Those are better now.) Thursday I managed to fall and twist the unhappy knee (I can feel it still trying to hyperextend, and all the ligaments and stuff are loose) and again bend it backwards. Cayne's worked late every night this week.

I want it to be Saturday so I can curl up and hang out with Cayne.

Comments

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

I'm glad this didn't happen right before the wedding.

[geminigirl]

Me too...though if it had been right before the wedding, I probably wouldn't have been dealing with a flood in our basement.

[wait.livejournal.com]

Ugh. I slipped in the shower a few years ago and hyperextended my knee. Horrible, horrible horrible. I did PT for about 6 weeks, strengthening the muscles above the knee to help support it. But I still have problems, particularly when I try to wear heels, or walk up a steep hill.

[geminigirl]

I've had knee issues with the same knee since eighth grade, when I strained ligaments in it-I probably should have landed myself in PT then, but the orthopedist didn't send me, which seems kind of silly. I'd been okay for years, with pain only once in a while, in bad weather, or when I just did too much, but this is crazy.

[sweet-tea79.livejournal.com]

Sorry about the knee. I've had lots of knee injuries and lots of knee PT. Ice ice ice, and advil. Let yourself get better before you do things that make it worse.

Hope you're feeling better soon. Knee injuries just suck. :(

[geminigirl]

I've never done knee PT...I've done shoulder and soleus stuff, but this knee was torn up pretty badly in Jr. High (strained ligaments playing hockey, and then about nine months later, took a fall that dislocated the kneecap.) I've been trying to rest, and ice, but no advil-just aspirin, (allergic to ibuprofen-I make doctors nuts because I'm not supposed to take NSAIDS) but I just want it to heal quickly-plus bad weather always bothers it, and it's been nastyrainy here too.

[sweet-tea79.livejournal.com]

Ah...I too am allergic to ibuprofen, which I discovered at summer camp after I broke a finger. Not such a fun time. Can you take aleve or tylenol? I'm generally underwhelmed by aspirin, but some like it. If it's working for you, do it.

My kneecaps like to roll to the outsides of my knee, and it took months and months of PT and strengthening exercises before everything was right again. I'll always have to be hyper-vigilant on quad exercises and make sure that I'm exercising the inner quads as much as the outer ones to keep it from happening again. Hope you're feeling better soon.

[geminigirl]

I discovered it after the second knee injury, when they gave me advil and I responded with projectile vomitting and a rash. Aspirin works for muscle pain, but it's done nothing to touch the knee. I take lots of tylenol though, and aleve is 50-50...sometimes it makes me sick, sometimes not.

I'm just taking it easy-I feel lazy, having not been to the gym since Tuesday.

[cmariewt.livejournal.com]

Damn woman! Your poor body!