Dr. recently told me I have a torn meniscus, that the whole thing was basically trashed and I should look into having it repaired. I would love to hear from anyone who has had this done. Cant find much on the net about it. Right now I is painful most days, but am a bit fearful about having this procedure. Next step for me is to make an apt with a ortho surgeon.
View 1 RepliesAfter MRI my diagnosis was "Lots of mileage left, another 10 years, at least!" (I am 75)! Good to hear but still have to be careful going DOWN stairs! Not too bad going up! Some pain now and again. BUT I sometimes get a strange feeling on upper left thigh, (the worst knee), as if it is wet but when I touch the skin it is totally dry! Happens after I have been standing for a couple of hours.Also, sometimes the skin feels sore, but there is no evidence to show. Has anyone had similar feelings?.
View 1 RepliesOver a month ago I had sex for the first time and I bled A LOT it wasn't till a week later that i noticed a part just below my vagina hole had been torn (I have no idea what it is) its like a stretchy bit of skin, I don't know if its normal or what. It hardly has any feeling in it, and today I've realized that i can actually grab the torn end and pull it. Does anyone know what it is, it's freaking me out?
View 1 Replies30 year old female here. Seven years ago, I injured my right hip during martial arts. I had an AWFUL doctor at the time who said the injury was a figment of my imagination, but who ordered an xray to shut me up, and concluded that I had arthritis in my hip. Last year, I explained to my newest doctor that I had been diagnosed with arthritis and she thought that sounded like garbage, and ordered an xray herself, at which point it was concluded that I did not have arthritis and never did.
I went through PT, and while the exercises strengthened my hip, it did not help the pain. (I cannot do any cardio exercise without pain.) My PT did a bunch of test stretches with my leg and guessed I had a torn labrum.
Last week I had an MRA, and found out that my labrum is indeed torn (from the 12:00 to the 3:00 position, whatever that means.) I have some cartilage damage ("mild thinning") and some cysts around the joint. I am trying to figure out what this all means, and just how bad my tear is, before my consult with a surgeon later this month. I know that surgery for this injury can have unpredictable results. I tore my left ACL ten years ago, and for that, surgery was pretty much the only option. I would like to do martial arts again, and/or SOME kind of cardio. But I'd also like to preserve my hip joint so that I won't actually develop arthritis in the near future. Thus, I'm not sure what to do. If anyone has gone through this, I'd love to hear you stories!
I just found out that I have a torn meniscus in my left knee and I see a surgeon in early June. I assume it's a lateral tear for the pain is on the outside of my knee but I'm very confused by it. In the last 6 months, I've injured that area 3 times. When it was injured the pain was excruciating and I couldn't go down the stairs properly or any kind of slope - in the driveway, for example. After about two weeks I seem to be fine again and there were months in between injuring it when I was fine. So does it heal??? I do dog training where I have to run and that seems to cause the flare-ups but I can walk okay. I'm just confused - I don't want to have surgery. Anyone else have this problem?
View 3 RepliesI have torn my meniscus twice in my right knee. The most recent tear was a little over a month ago. I had surgery, but my knee still hurts. Several years ago I slipped and fell. I went to the doc and without tuning any test he told me it was a bad sprain. I went back once a month for 6 months and told me the same thing. I kept going back because my ankle never got any better. The swelling never went down. After 6 months it stopped hurting. Now it pops every time I move it. I went to a new doc about it and after running some tests he informed me that I had torn everything in my ankle. However, it had healed already. It heal wrong, but it had healed. Could my ankle problems be apart of my knee problems? My ankle doesn't hurt. It just pops all the time. My wife calls it Rice Krispy cause she says it snap crackle and pop all the time.
View 3 RepliesLast year I hurt my shoulder. I am not sure of the exact thing that hurt it, but I think it may have been golfing. I work out heavily(always accompanied by proper stretching) but one night I had a little too much to drink and went to the driving range. That's when it started. For almost two years now I've had debilitating shoulder pain. It was excruciating . I put myself in a sling for 4 no the and started to try and stretch it out and work it out lightly. It took a year and the pain subsided but I am unable to work out or lift much with it. If I swing my arm around it pops and crunches. If I do anything rough with it the pain comes back. Well I was doing some lifting at work yesterday and today I'm back in the sling. First time in like 8 months. The pain happens when I lift my elbow up from the side. If I lift my arm up wrist up to the front without bending my elbow. Its terrible. If my wife falls asleep on that shoulder. Its excruciating. I can't stand it anymore. I'm a college student and a cook. I have no Insurance. I have to admit when I started stretching it and working it out a little (I looked up good stretches for rotator cuff injuries.) I didn't stick with it very long because I'm pretty sure something is seriously wrong with it that strengthening won't help.
View 3 Repliesam i virgin? When i was 5 years old i put a pen in my vagaina/vaginal then i bleed ,now i am 18 years old so am i a virgin ? When i have sex will i bleed again ? Or not
View 1 RepliesI recently hurt my foot which turned out i have torn my Achilles. I have been suffering with the same problem for a while and its painful when i walk and it is very hard and painful for my climbing up & down stairs & walking longer distance.
Last week as i stretched to get something from a shelf i felt and hear a pop at the back of my ankle and have been in severe pain ever since. I have felt it "pop" or "snap" a few times over the years but i have never heard it and this time the pain is worse than ever.
I visited my local A&E who confirmed it was a torn Achilles. They strapped my foot/leg up with a bandage and gave me crutches and told me not to put any weight on it. I was given an emergency appointment for the next morning to visit the trauma clinic. After waiting nearly 3 hours after my appointment time i finally saw a doctor who cut the bandage off and done a few tests on my calf and ankle, i was pulling my foot away as it was extremely painful. He confirmed my Achilles had not completely ruptured but it was torn, Then went on to say it was a sprain?? that i had to keep using the crutches and not put any weight on my foot for a few weeks and to rest it. This is very difficult as i work on the first floor & we don't have a lift.
I do not understand how in the same sentence he told me my Achilles was torn but it is just a sprain.
I am now struggling and in pain constantly i was not given any pain killers, Nothing.
Should i be trying to go back or do something else as it does not seem to be getting any better and it has me completely worn out.
Would I know if I've torn my stitches? My surgeon mentioned I wouldn't always know if I've done damage. But surely it would hurt if I popped a stitch?
I stupidly picked up my 3 year old without thinking, I'm 10 days post op and now paranoid I've done some damage, I've already had an infection which has popped one of the external stitches It didn't hurt when I picked her up but I know feel weird.
I'm 17 and was masturbating a couple weeks ago when I notices that the tip of my penis was hurting(where the frenulum is) but thought nothing of it then a couple of days ago I was having intercourse with my girlfriend when I felt a sharp pain where the frenulum is I didn't realize until after that I tore my frenulum completely there was a lot of blood and we were both worried I stopped the bleeding but now it's kinda painful and I'm wondering if I should go see a doctor, on other posts/websites people say that it heals by itself but I just wanna be sure what should I do again I'm only 17
View 1 Repliesthe inside of my outer lip is torn. i was getting fingered than afters words it was blood in my panties and when i look it was torn like a cute and it was swollen like so i put some ice on but when i try to pee it stings and hurt. i told my friend about it and she told me to put some alcohol and peroxide and the next day the swellen went down but it still hurt when i pee what should i do
View 2 Repliesabout two months ago I was lifting a heavy article and received a lot of pain which seemed to come from my bicep, the pain gradually got worse and worse so I was advised by my Doc to have a ultra scan and it showed I have a partially torn tendon in my shoulder, the pain is quite bad and I have a hell of a job finding a comfort spot in bed so I'm not getting the sleep I need and the next day I feel tired and weary all the time, the only thing my doc advised was physio and home exercises but so far it's no better, I.m 76 years old so not as fit as I used to be and this problem has made impossible for me to do things like gardening which I love, How long do these shoulder last, will I ever get rid of it.
View 2 RepliesI have a a torn disc at L4/L5 (not herniated). It showed up in an MRI I had in March 2014 (and symptoms first showed up, I believe, two years before that). I won't go through why it took two years to be properly diagnosed (my handle here was created when I thought I was going to have to have reconstructive foot surgery because I am severely overpronated).
I had an epidural 12 days ago, and the chronic lower back pain I had when seated has been reduced significantly. Of course, I hope that it will last for a long time. I am starting PT.
I am wondering if anyone with a similar diagnosis ended up feeling the same way I did, and, if so, if/how you finally got better.
Before I ever had any pain, I first had a sense of being out of alignment. First thing I noticed was my right shoulder and back slumping on my right side. I have a desk job, and this sounds nuts, I know, but I started holding a dictionary in my lap as a sort of "guide" to align myself against.
Eventually I started shifting in my seat all the time; it felt like my pelvis was out of balance. I couldn't find balance from my right foot to my right glute; I had to really work at it. On a recumbent bike, my right leg turned in. At the gym, not really knowing what I was trying to do, I would constantly reach down and touch my right heel (when seated on a bench), as if trying to straighten my foot. I couldn't clench my right butt cheek, and my right glute eventually atrophied to the point that my gym shorts would slide down my right side, and I could feel the difference in my glutes in my jeans.
I felt like I was caved inward on my right side from my neck to the bottom of my foot. Breathing was affected.
My gait was messed up: It began to feel as if I were walking on two different legs; it didn't hurt to walk, it was just difficult. Sometimes I had a limp. It was difficult to stand for any length of time, again, because of feeling misaligned rather than pain.
Low right back pain when seated kicked in, and starting about nine months ago, was chronic. It hurt all day long, and I ate ibuprofen like M&Ms.
So now, as I say, I have (what I believe is) a correct diagnosis; have had the epidural, which has greatly reduced the back pain.
Now I just have the lingering sense of my back and shoulder on the right side not being aligned, and still have mobility and gait issues. Have had only the initial PT consult, but gearing up to go twice a week next week.
My question (finally! sorry!): With a small torn disc at L4-L5 like this, did you feel like that? And, more important, did you get better? From when symptoms first started (the dictionary days) until now, it's been nearly four years. I think all the alignment stuff just got worse and worse during that time because I couldn't get a proper diagnosis. I hope I can get better.
So glad to have found this blog. Going a little nuts here in New York City. Broke my fibula and tore my syndesmosis on February 16 while skiing in Italy. Emergency room and stabilizing cast there and managed to get back to New York where I had surgery on February 20. March 8 the cast was removed and replaced with an air boot. Unfortunately, I can't be weight bearing for a total of eight weeks because of the syndesmosis tear. The long screw for that comes out at week 12. I've managed to do okay with a rolling 'knee walker' but approaching week 5 now and getting mighty depressed about all of this. Hardest thing I've ever been through. Can someone tell me what to expect after week 8? I'm scheduled for home rehab but when will I actually be able to walk normally again.
View 301 RepliesMy husband and I had a rough "session" this morning and we had a bad mishap. my perineum has torn; it is approx 1 to 1 1/2" torn. This has never happened to me and I am quite worried. Its Sunday and my gyn office is not open. It looks deep enough that I may need stitches. I just wanted to know if this has happened to anyone else and if I should purchase liquid band-aid.
View 2 Replies10 weeks ago I sprained my ankle (grade 2) and broke my 4th metatarsal. The metatarsal has healed. I started Physical Therapy 3 weeks ago. My ankle is still very tender to the touch and very painful during my daily activities. My MRI showed 3 bones in my foot are also bruised and a couple ligaments on the top of my foot are torn.
My orthopedic said surgery is an option in my case but he wanted to try TP first. TP isn't going well. I'm usually in so much pain they cut the exercises short.
Last week my ankle gave out twice and I'm pretty sure I re sprained it. I called my doctor and left a message with his assistant saying I want to talk about surgery. She called back and said the doctor said to give TP more time. So he doesn't know I probably reinjured it.
The last 3 days my foot has been very swollen and bruised again. Looks almost as bad as day 1. But only feels like a 6 or 7 on the pain scale.
I was masterbating and the skin around my penis tore. Although it wasn't bleeding it was a bit purple were it tore....
View 2 RepliesAchilles Tendon rupture or calf torn muscle: Does a Achilles tendon rupture make calf to swell up ?
After a couple days only between the calf and ankle got swell up... I did perform the 'calf squeeze test' and my foot moved a little ( probably because the muscle it's inflamed still??).
Went a little to rough on myself and ended up tearing part of my penis's frenulum including the head of the penis almost right down to the very tip.
A few days later and it's healed so badly that i can no longer pull the foreskin back as the foreskin has healed onto the head of my penis. I am not in pain but it has eliminated the ability to masturbate. I don't have too much issue urinating. Just being careful and i get by fine for now.
but..
I've never even read online or heard of a case as bad as this. is there any hope for me? I did not faint or vomit as i've read online its common for that to happen.
What can I possibly do to heal properly? Do I need immediate surgery?
My mother decided it wasn't necessary since the bleeding had stopped very quickly after it had happened. within 5 minutes
Also my right testicle has been on and off sore for the past few years. A look inside has decided its a possibility of a hydrocele or something. but it hurts even after 3 ibuprofen.
2 and a half weeks ago I tore my calf muscle. I went to minor injury unit at local hospital. They didn't need to do a scan. They diagnosed torn calf muscle and gave me crutches and told me to rest it for two weeks. Not sure but I think it must have been a Grade 3 tear as I could not walk on it without intense pain and only now can I actually stand on it. I've walked/hobbled about five yards at a time but it is very sore and tight.
After one week I went to GP to ask about recovery. The only advice was to do some stretches and try walking on it a little. I just wondered if I could find anyone who has been through this to see what steps they took.