wassup, knees?
Feb. 14th, 2012 10:31 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
saffronhareDear knees,
Why on earth are you giving me trouble? You used to be the set of joints I could count on. Shoulder? Cranky. Hips? Difficult. But knees? SRSLY, guys. Maybe I haven't given you enough credit for being low-maintenance. That's a GOOD thing. Please don't stop now.
Kthx,
Me
Honesly, I don't know what's up with my knees the last 16 hours or so. Starting yesterday evening, it's like they were swaddled with a case of "let's feel all swollen and not really want to move." No pain, thankfully. No super-obvious swelling, though it's difficult to tell because my knees are kind of stubby anyway. Very strange. I do not recall any moment/movement with strain, and I'm pretty careful with body alignment (see note above, re: hips), so it seems unlikely I would have made a huge mistake with body mechanics and not felt it when it happened.
Matthew suggested it could be a delayed reaction to the sodium from my Chinese food binge on Saturday. My fingers, elbows, and ankles all feel sort of stiff and swollen today as well, so that could be it, though sodium hasn't really been a trigger for me before. But that'd be nifty, because it would mean this insanity will PASS.
The combination of stiffness with instability is disconcerting. Going *up* stairs is still okay; going *down* stairs feels terrible. Meh. Going to drink a lot of water to flush whatever-it-is out and see what happens.
Why on earth are you giving me trouble? You used to be the set of joints I could count on. Shoulder? Cranky. Hips? Difficult. But knees? SRSLY, guys. Maybe I haven't given you enough credit for being low-maintenance. That's a GOOD thing. Please don't stop now.
Kthx,
Me
Honesly, I don't know what's up with my knees the last 16 hours or so. Starting yesterday evening, it's like they were swaddled with a case of "let's feel all swollen and not really want to move." No pain, thankfully. No super-obvious swelling, though it's difficult to tell because my knees are kind of stubby anyway. Very strange. I do not recall any moment/movement with strain, and I'm pretty careful with body alignment (see note above, re: hips), so it seems unlikely I would have made a huge mistake with body mechanics and not felt it when it happened.
Matthew suggested it could be a delayed reaction to the sodium from my Chinese food binge on Saturday. My fingers, elbows, and ankles all feel sort of stiff and swollen today as well, so that could be it, though sodium hasn't really been a trigger for me before. But that'd be nifty, because it would mean this insanity will PASS.
The combination of stiffness with instability is disconcerting. Going *up* stairs is still okay; going *down* stairs feels terrible. Meh. Going to drink a lot of water to flush whatever-it-is out and see what happens.
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Date: 2012-02-14 07:30 pm (UTC)Of course, that definitely hurt in my muscles, so it still might not be right. Just a thought.
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Date: 2012-02-14 09:55 pm (UTC)There's no accompanying muscle soreness anywhere, thankfully, and I'm feeling a definite easing of symptoms (at 4 p.m.), so I think that strengthens the case of it not being an injury or something to fret about a lot. Worth recording, for sure.
Thank you again for recommending Fitocracy. I'm really enjoying it!
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Date: 2012-02-14 10:11 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-02-14 10:16 pm (UTC)