That's how I first found out about it. There's a long flight of stairs going down to the bowling alley, and it used to hurt going bowling, and hurt less going home climbing up. When I went to the hospital in Singapore, the doctor told me that the meniscus is worn out and did an MRI to confirm.
When I told the doctor here in the US 6 years ago, he recommended that I start taking glucosamine. But no MRI was done.
[edit] actually, come to think of it, 20 years ago it wasn't an MRI. They x-rayed both knees and compared.
I hate to be OT here Gary but sounds to me as if you have a torn meniscus and need arthroscopy
Yep. I've got those symptoms and that diagnosis. Of course I'm taking my usual approach to surgery (of which, at 62, I've had a vasectomy).
Doc: "I want to get an orthopedic guy to look at that."
Me: "Why"
Doc: "He might want to fix it."
Me: "Doc, when I'm in more pain than he's gonna cause me, I'll consider it."
I've had the same doctor for a few decades. He knows me well. But he just keeps trying.
Tim
Haha! Me too. I'm 53, and not even a vasectomy.
The doctors here have proposed surgery twice in the 6 years I've been visiting doctors in the US. In the 46 years when I've been visiting doctors in Singapore, I've never been proposed surgery. One wanted to do it for frozen shoulder (well, not really surgery but putting me under GA and "exercising" the shoulder to "break up scar tissue") and recently because of a trigger thumb. Both have been resolved by going to China and getting massages.
Speaking of China and massages, China has been publicly debating lately whether it should be legal for massage parlors to give "happy endings."
"Happy endings" are usually optional. It involves a release of energy, because a proper Chinese tuina massage can be rather painful, and you do need the release.
can you have a placebo effect happy ending? aha ahahahah
"Happy endings" are usually optional. It involves a release of energy, because a proper Chinese tuina massage can be rather painful, and you do need the release.