Posted 12/13/2015 9:59 PM (GMT 0)
More than 5 years ago even before taking pred, I started to have severe pain in my left knee. An orthopedist diagnosed it first as osteoarthritis which was refuted by an x-ray. My GI told me then you're too young to get osteoarthritis. I was in my early thirties and normally osteoarthritis starts in middle age, as far as I know.
Since then, my knees have been a pain in the neck. Every now and then , they become swollen. Last year, around that time of the year, it became swollen and painful. Asked my GI whether that was a manifestation of inner inflammation and he okayed it. I was prescribed a course of steroid injections which surprisingly calmed my intestinal pain but not my knee one. My knee pain resolved on its own.
Saw an orthopedist lately. He put me on one of the herbal meds which is claimed to restore cartilage. Actually , I didn't take it as I was afraid it might mess things up inside and add up to it my mum has taken it for months w/o any avail.
The thing that is different this time is that there is like fluid on my knee and it's very stiff; I can hardly move.