i know some days are better than others i have this painful knee for about 6 weeks and now it has swollen up and my boys seen the pain i am in so my eldest son demanded that he takes me to a&e to get me seen. Which i did and i was told that i have damaged the joint and may need a opp on it to heal it, all the time i thought it was part of normal joint pains that i get with the lupus how wrong i was, we just put up with pain because learn to as part of our illness, how wrong i was to think that, i,m a nurse and on my feet for 7 hours and just get on with things but sometimes we need to take a break and take things easy and listen to family when they tell us to slow down.