Thanks for the info. I just made a dr appt. tomorrow, hoping she will give me a cortisone for my right knee. Cortisone has worked well for me in the past for tendonitis in shoulder and plantar fasciatis.
My knees (especially the right one) have sort of dislocated my entire life. A doctor finally told me I have "loose" kneecaps that dislocate easily. Weirdly, I have strong quads. Am sure I also have early arthritis, but not really diagnosed.
Have had 2 bad sprains as an adult, took weeks to recover when I was in my late 30s, months in my mid-fifties. This time (at almost 60), I have a babysitting injury - got up from a chair too fast trying to chase a 2 year old.
If I could stay off it, might not be so bad, but that is so hard to do. Has been 6 weeks and I started doing too much, thinking it wouldn't bother me that much. Stuff like moving, playing 9 holes of golf, shopping. Have been taking naproxen and icing and heating it, but didn't do the icing enough probably. Paying for it now. Everything just seems to take so much longer to heal now.
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