Knea pain

[KassieC]

I went to the dr a few months ago for my knea pain in both legs. He never touched me and said I had runner knea. I was over 300 lbs and I have lost alot of lbs but now my left knea when im laying on my stomach I cant bend it 😫 I can bend it when im not on my belly but it still hurts. It won't even move away from the bed before just stopping. It feels like somthing is tied in my knea idk it hurts but im scared to go to the dr and them just blow me off again.

[Dizzytwo Moderator]

Hi there, I'm sorry but if you need treatment for your knee pain you have no option to go back to your GP I'm afraid. Maybe you could see another doctor in your surgery if your not happy with the one you saw before. Sounds like you could do with an xray IMO. I would urge you to see a doctor xx

[Niao]

I encourage you to get this checked, just to be safe.I've had fibro and Osteoarthritis for more than 24 years but the last 2.5 years have been spent trying to get them to take me seriously with the absolutely crippling pains and debility I'd developed and knew were not Fibromyalgia!

Just been diagnosed with Rheumatoid arthritis!

My knees were the same.

Unfortunately, as I wasn't taken seriously for so long, the one knee I did get an MRI on has been severely damaged! Pretty sure the other's not much better!

Also damage done to hands, elbows shoulders etc.

Do not be fobbed off with the usual 'it's just the fibro', and try not to kill anyone who uses that 'just word when talking about fibro as I'm sorely tempted to!!!

Hopefully though it is something more simple that can be easily sorted, or just alleviates on its own!

[Niao]

Sorry, to add, I,m not meaning to suggest it is RA but it was just that I was told at first it was Chondromalacea Patella, or runners ' knee. Then, when swelling was so obvious, told a likely Meniscus tear.I went along with this diagnosis for too long.

Before the swelling it was a lot of pain and then being unable to straighten or bend.

Hope you get some answers soon.