JimL
Well-known member
Last Monday night I did a perfect knee drop, sort of a wrestling move where you come down hard on your opponent, driving your knee into some vital area and incapacitating them. It was perfectly executed, the only problem being that the opponent was me. So I came down hard with all my weight behind my knee, driven into the floor. Stephen King writes about the vicious coffee table that moves in the dark, and I have one.
Tuesday morning (and in the night as well), it had swelled up considerably. When I got to my GPs that afternoon, it was much larger. Xray, no broken bones, Keflex in case of infection (I did scrape the knee), and vicodin for pain.
I spent this week telling myself it was getting better, I was getting used to it, etc, etc. It was much worse this morning. My range of motion was cut in half, the swelling increased, which also increases the pain. As a matter of principle, I have in the past loved all pain killers I was prescribed. But this vicodin stuff just isn't there. It doesn't touch the pain, it doesn't make me loopy, the only thing it does it make me fall asleep for three seconds out of every thirty.
I'll be pursuing further doctor options tomorrow, perhaps an MRI to see if there was other damage to ligaments or whatever is inside a knee, hopefully to get some tastier pain killer. I suppose I'm posting this in case someone knows something about this. If I could take an antiinflammatory, that would be great, but I already had a gastrointestinal bleed 19 months ago, so I'll not risk that. Thanks for listening.
Tuesday morning (and in the night as well), it had swelled up considerably. When I got to my GPs that afternoon, it was much larger. Xray, no broken bones, Keflex in case of infection (I did scrape the knee), and vicodin for pain.
I spent this week telling myself it was getting better, I was getting used to it, etc, etc. It was much worse this morning. My range of motion was cut in half, the swelling increased, which also increases the pain. As a matter of principle, I have in the past loved all pain killers I was prescribed. But this vicodin stuff just isn't there. It doesn't touch the pain, it doesn't make me loopy, the only thing it does it make me fall asleep for three seconds out of every thirty.
I'll be pursuing further doctor options tomorrow, perhaps an MRI to see if there was other damage to ligaments or whatever is inside a knee, hopefully to get some tastier pain killer. I suppose I'm posting this in case someone knows something about this. If I could take an antiinflammatory, that would be great, but I already had a gastrointestinal bleed 19 months ago, so I'll not risk that. Thanks for listening.