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Title: Bones - you have your scapel ready?!?
Post by: Nollster on October 28, 2004, 10:49:18 PM
Last night I'm sitting there doing the TV Guide crossword and I catch my right knee out of the corner of my eye...It's kind of swollen and puffy -- really odd looking....I reach down to touch it and it's really squishy.  There's no pain, just squishiness.  I stood up and walked around for a minute and the swelling seemed to reduce a little.  The knee has felt much less flexible than my left for a couple months now (the right knee is the one I broke...).  I assume this is "water on the knee" -- is this pretty easy to take care of?  Why am I falling apart all of a sudden?!?!?!?  It all seems to stem from them taking out my uvula -- life just hasn't been the same since I lost my uvula...
Title: Re: Bones - you have your scapel ready?!?
Post by: FBM357 on October 29, 2004, 07:09:32 AM
Sounds like you're ready for a needle instead of the "knife".  Speaking from experience as I've had surgery on left knee (football related injury) 5 1/2 yrs ago and several months ago had fluid drained from right knee (i.e. needle).  I'm delaying scoping on the right knee, though with cold weather approaching it's aching on a consistent basis and may need it sooner than I want.

Wish you well.

Vernon
Title: Re: Bones - you have your scapel ready?!?
Post by: card79 on October 29, 2004, 12:03:58 PM
Nollster-

I am not doctor, but I do conclude the same thing that Sawbones does.  I have had 7 knee operations 5 on the right and 2 on the left.  Toward the end of my college career I was to the point where enough cartledge had been repaired or removed that about once a week I had to have the fluid removed from my knee.  I was told that it was inflamation from the lack of cartledge.  Something to do with being a sinovial joint or something like that.
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Title: Re: Bones - you have your scapel ready?!?
Post by: Nollster on October 29, 2004, 12:14:04 PM
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Nollster, fluid in the knee indicates inflammation and is usually treated with drainage and injection of a steroid to clear the inflammation.

   There can be any number of causes as to how it happened, but my advice is to get to a doctor as soon as possible to have this done.
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Trust me, there's a call going to the doctor -- I was just a little confused as to how they'll drain it if it doesn't seem to be there all the time.....I know something's not right though.....
Title: Re: Bones - you have your scapel ready?!?
Post by: Ragnar on October 29, 2004, 01:50:14 PM
Nollster, as a stop gap, until you see the DR. let me offer this.  I had my knee done years ago and about 2 weeks afterwards it expanded to football size - yep, water on the knee.  I was advised to elevate it and after about 3 days of doing so the swelling went down and I never again had the problem.
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Title: Re: Bones - you have your scapel ready?!?
Post by: TheBowlingKid25 on October 29, 2004, 01:57:54 PM
Heres what you do:
1)Get a sewing needle
2)Get some JD
3)Drink the JD
4)Poke the crap out of it
5)Pass out from a mix of drunkeness and pain


OR

1)go to the doctors.
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Title: Re: Bones - you have your scapel ready?!?
Post by: Nollster on October 29, 2004, 02:22:21 PM
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I suggest full leg amputation. This way it won't happen again
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Edited on 10/29/2004 2:02 PM
Maybe I should do both at the same time to keep it from happening to the other leg?!?!?
Title: Re: Bones - you have your scapel ready?!?
Post by: LuvThatWhiteDot on October 29, 2004, 09:46:19 PM
I'm sure if you go see the movie "Saw" this weekend, you'll get all the helpful tips you need for proper cutting technique
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