pain on the outside of my knee caused by running. PLEASE HELP!?

Question by bballgirl: pain on the outside of my knee caused by running. PLEASE HELP!?
After increasing my mileage, I began feeling some knee pain while running. It’s been about a month and a half now, and the pain is still pretty severe.
-As of right now, it feels like the outside of my knee is catching (very painfully) at random times (like when walking or going up or down stairs).
- I’ve been shooting some hoops lately, and when I first start, it feels like my knee pops (no pain, just pressure) when I bend my legs. After a little while it starts to get more painful until i’m unable to play anymore.
-There is some tenderness, usually if I press on my knee right after it catches, or after physical activity.

I’ve been researching this for a month now, and I can’t figure out what’s wrong. Any help would be much appreciated!
I don’t know if some of you noticed this, but this has been going on for almost 2 months now, it’s definantly not just sore. I took about 3 weeks off where I didn’t do any physical activity, but it never completely went away, and when I started again it was just as bad if not worse then when it first started.
(I do have a doc. appt. scheduled for next week)

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Answer by triplehelixer
gosh see a doctor. maybe an icepack?

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Q&A: What causes chest pain when I cough,laugh,breathe in or lay down?

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Sometimes I can kind of feel it on my back too, it’s been going on for about 3 days what could it be?

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The Rock

Check out these excruciating foot pain images:

The Rock


Image by Kordite
Three years ago, I was riding my bike on the Yough River Trail late at night, ultimately on my was to DC. It had been warm and wet during the day and the cooling night air had made it foggy and my headlamp didn’t reach very far ahead.

"Rock!"

I was past Dawson approaching the River’s Edge Family Campground at nearly midnight when, out of the fog there was suddenly a rock. And not just any rock; a ten cubic foot block of doom. The kind of monstrosity they set out at road intersections to keep redneck 4×4′s off of the bike trail.

I even said the word out-loud when this rock was suddenly dead ahead and there was nothing I could do. The front wheel hit square on and Newton’s Second Law took over. I had hit my brakes in a desperate attempt to avoid the impact but I fear I only slowed myself down enough to ensure that I didn’t have enough momentum to clear the rock myself. I went over the handlebars and landed on the rock with my chest. After recovering myself and realizing that I didn’t experience the excruciating pain that one would expect with broken ribs, I thought about my bike. Shit! The front wheel must be a pretzel.

Except that it wasn’t. By some miracle the front wheel was still perfectly round. However, the front fork was bent straight back so that the wheel was scraping against the frame. I removed the splashguard and there was just enough clearance between the wheel and the frame to make it rideable but to do so felt weird. With the wheel back so far the bike was unstable, like riding with your hands close together. If I turned the wheel too far, my feet would hit the wheel as I pedaled. My GPS had come loose and, in the fall, had lost the left 1/8 inch of the LCD display.

There was much cursing at the night. But cursing wasn’t going to help me so I got back on my bike and made my way to Connellsville where I utilized a bike rack as a lever to pry my front fork back into some sort of shape.

You can read the entire story of that weekend at www.tasigh.org/gps/gap2004.html

There have been a number of people who cast doubt on my description of how big the rock was so here is a picture of it.

Kalahari


Image by Counselman Collection
We had our winter family camping trip together at Kalahari again this year. It is a really fun resort as you can see from the hundred or so photos we snapped and posted on Flickr. The blizzard came and went, and we never got out of our swim trunks. The water was so nice and warm, as well as the indoor temperature; you thought you was in Miami. Of course, at the end of the week, when we had to chop through the thick ice and dig our cars out; that brought us back to reality, that we still live in Ohio.

The saga continues …
For those of you that do not know, Pam had a traumatic experience at Kalahari, being locked in a glass elevator that had no air holes in it. It lowered her down from the upper deck to the lower deck, and by the time I walked down the stairs, I found a good-Samaritan woman trying to get Pam out banging on the door and pressing the buttons. They keep it nice and warm in there and the glass elevator was even hotter, and I was trying everything to get her out to no avail. It took forever to get any help there and then even the supervisor did not know what to do because they never had anyone stuck before. After experimenting and trying everything many times, we finally got the door open, just as the water park manager came up. This person was only interested in getting his defense ready with his people and would not even talk to us about Pam’s care or blood pressure. I walked Pam to his office and then called for the EMT’s to check her out. She seemed to settle down and we went back out in the park, sat down, and watched the grandchildren. I talked to the front desk manager about the water park manager and at least he slipped a nice apology under our door that night. I could still tell Pam was not herself so Friday morning I left the kids there and I drove her home, as she had a migraine from her blood pressure being up. We got home about noon Friday and she slept most of the day, but then about midnight she woke me up in excruciating pain. I tried to get her in a wheelchair, but she was in so much pain I could not move her. I finally convinced her that we needed an ambulance, and fortunately, my nice neighbor had plowed my driveway, and the ambulance was able to load her in through the garage and take her to Wood County hospital. Her right leg where her new knee was replaced was swollen and red hot all the way to her ankle, and super painful to any touch or movement. They were giving her straight morphine and it did not help at all for the first 24-hours. It has been four days now, and they finally got Pam’s blood pressure down, and her headache has subsided. They are still pouring antibiotics into her to fight any infection, and treating her for a possible blood clot with CT, MRI scans, she is still in pain, and is now a little less miserable than she was. They think she might have even picked up an alleged germ off the floor at Kalahari through a cut on her foot. You have to remember they keep the place hot all the time, with hundreds and hundreds of people walking around bare-footed, it is suspected to be one huge Petri dish, full of bacteria, viruses, and fungi. The photos may look nice, but this is the downside of the whole place. It is Tuesday now, and I still have no idea when Pam is going to get to go home from the hospital, since they will not even let her walk on it yet or sit up yet. Just remember, you can have a lot of fun at Kalahari, but please take precautions, and protect your feet.
And just so I do not have to repeat it, and probably fifty some friends have privately asked, did they comp us for all the anxiety they put us through? I did not even know what comp meant, and I am not the type to pursue litigation, the answer is NO, they did not give us anything for our trouble, and I paid the entire bill. All I wanted was an apology from the nasty man, and I received that. All these post medical problems you face after going to a place like this, is just something you have to live with on your own.
Sincerely,
Robert Counselman

Cool Level 1 Trauma Centers images

Some cool level 1 trauma centers images:

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Image by maureenclare
On 21 April 2011, FLY (Fearless Leading by the Youth) led a demonstration calling for a Level 1 adult trauma center at the University of Chicago.

FLY lost one of its founders, Damian Turner, on August 15th, 2010. It was not just the stray bullet that killed him. Damian, a youth leader in the struggle for human rights, was a victim of the system he was fighting against.

Damian was killed by the racist health care system that has left the south side without any level 1 trauma centers because it is the greed of providers such as the U of C Medical Center – which was four blocks from where he was shot – rather than the need of people that determines where people get care. So Damian was taken 10 miles away to Northwestern Hospital where he died.

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Image by maureenclare
On 21 April 2011, FLY (Fearless Leading by the Youth) led a demonstration calling for a Level 1 adult trauma center at the University of Chicago.

FLY lost one of its founders, Damian Turner, on August 15th, 2010. It was not just the stray bullet that killed him. Damian, a youth leader in the struggle for human rights, was a victim of the system he was fighting against.

Damian was killed by the racist health care system that has left the south side without any level 1 trauma centers because it is the greed of providers such as the U of C Medical Center – which was four blocks from where he was shot – rather than the need of people that determines where people get care. So Damian was taken 10 miles away to Northwestern Hospital where he died.

Q&A: How long do I wait before asking my doctor about prednisone-related joint pain?

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Question by Lily J: How long do I wait before asking my doctor about prednisone-related joint pain?
I have been on prednisone for 9 days for an allergic reaction to an antibiotic. I have three more days at the lowest dose (10 mg). Today I have been experiencing increasing joing pain in my hands, wrists, and fingers. I don’t want to overreact — is this normal? Will it get better in a day or two, or do I need to contact my doctor now? Everything I’ve read about joint pain has to do with long-term prednisone usage, not a short course like mine.

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Answer by school_papers
Any reaction to a medication is worth immediately telling your doctor. He’ll tell you if it’s serious or not. Call first, ask by phone, then go in if necessary.

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