Both my knees and legs are in pain all the time...however mine is because of a baseball injury in highschool. Basically all the tissue from my ankle to my knee in my right leg is torn, and some of the tissue in my left ankle is as well. Because the only way to ever let it heal 100% is surgery that would keep me off my feet for 6 plus months (which is not an option) or just stay off my feet for like 2 plus years (which ie not an option either obviously) Wouldn't be able to get up for anything.
My left knee hurts now too because of it constantly locking into place when most of my weight shifts to that leg when my right knee starts to spasim. It is recomended that if I choose not to get it healed properly that I should refrain from any athletic activities. I didn't listen and for the first couple years after I got hurt I paid for it which is why the tears have gotten worse. (it originally was a small tear in my right ankle) Now I'm more careful but the pain is getting worse, and it does get a little more difficult to be on my feet all day (and I'm not allowed to sit down on my job) Fortunaly my work benifits may cover a full leg brace. There expensive, the one I would need would be simalar to the one that Stone Cold wore. I may be able to get physio paid for as well, but I need to get new xrays done first.....seeing as I haven't had it rechecked in almost 6 years now.
I didnt actually realise you could pick up tendon tears in X-Rays. I'm just curious, and read that MRI's only benefit over an X-Ray for tears, in that they just give the doctor more information. Interesting.
Why wouldn't you take the time off man, to get it healed? Surely you'd be able to work around taking several months off your feet, to properly heal and hopefully live a pain-less (or less-painful) life...
I've got what's called Pigmented Villo Nodular Synovitis in my left knee, its a rare benign tumour/growth that's regrowing after my first operation. They did an atroscopy to remove it, but since then it's regrown more agressive than before, and it's spread throughout my entire joint; it;s literally everywhere in my joint. At this time, it's looking like open knee surgery from the front, another arthroscopic operation from the back and radiation therapy tossed on top of that to hopefully get rid of this, and depending on the severity of it, whether or not they take out the lining in my knee I could be off my feet for anywhere upto 4 months, so I was told. I'm taking this hands down, despite what I'm seeing as a possible difficult and painful recoup from the operations, being off my feet, possible permanent damage to my knee regardless and the chance of a cancerous tumour growing from the radiation therapy. I just feel that what I've got to go through, to consider having a semi-normal knee function in the future, is worth it.
Note my pain might be a little more extreme than yours, but don't quote me on it. I'm not working right now due to the fact that I cant be on my feet for a full day...
