In June 2015 I twisted my knee when getting out of the back of my friend's two door car. I heard it crack and I went to sit on the side walk to wait for the pain to ease a little but the pain level remained the same. When I tried to get up I fell back down because the pain got even worse when I put even the slightest bit of pressure on it. I though I had broken my knee.
I got up on my right leg only and I hopped to the car so my friend could take me home. On the way there the pain went down a little and when I got out of the car I could put a little pressure on it but whenever I bent it it felt like if something was being squeezed inside my knee. I decided to sleep on it and the next morning the pain was unbearable again so I went to the ER where they did some x rays but everything turned out to be fine so they just ace wraped it and gave me crutches. They told me to schedule a follow up appointment with my regular doctor but I never did. about
two or three weeks went by and everything got better but sometimes it would hurt all of a sudden. I could be sitting with no pain but it would hurt when I tried to move it and I would only be able to bend/extend it to a certain point or else I would feel some type of pressure as if something was getting sandwiched between the bones or something. (Like the day of the injury)
That all went away and I went back to running and could do everything normallyl. There was only pain when I sat on it for too long or with cold temperatures.
Yesterday (Saturday Sept. 16) I was building a piece of furniture and so I was sitting and kneeling on the carpet for about
2 or three hours. Suddenly when I tried to bend my knee that very uncomfortable sensation came back. It's not sharp pain, it's just some type of pressure that if I try and bend the knee past it, that's when I start feeling sharp pain but as soon as I unbend the knee the pain goes away. Also, if I'm trying to bend it and I feel that pressure/slight pain I try to bend it another way, like sideways instead of straight up and down, and the sensation sometimes goes away.
I went to sleep hoping it would go away overnight but I'm still feeling the same thing today(Sunday).
I feel like something is out of place in there and it's what is getting squeezed when I bend the knee.
Has this or something similar happened to anyone or does anyone know what this might be?
Any advice/recommendations are greatly appreciated. Thank you!
