Or do your joints / tendons remain permanently more “dried out” than they were before, kind of like how accutane permanently dries out the oil in your skin permanently?
I was just thinking about this, as I was thinking about how the skin dryness from accutane is a long-term effect I imagine maybe some of the other effects are long-term/permanent, as well..
I had a ganglion cyst operated on the same area years ago. And I feel it trying to reform. Like the top of my wrist feels cold squishy and heavy.
I also have CTS so I'm bracing my wrist. I'm not sure if that's making it better or worse
Any tips appreciated
Edit:def do not want any type of steroid injection
After a couple weeks in the hospital, the patient was discharged (not to the morgue or hospice, I made sure to ask lol). And just days before they were discharged, they had a birthday, so at 95 years old, the patient had recovered and was able to go home. May not have gotten the answers to how the infection happened, but at least there was a great ending to the story!
Since Christmas last year my knee has started filling with synovial fluid regularly. The first time I let it build up because I didn't want to go to a hospital during a pandemic but eventually went first to my local doctor who said to go to hospital and then the hospital told me to take some anti-inflammatorys and find a better GP. I eventually did and he aspirated 140ml of fluid from my knee and referred me to a specialist. The specialist said there wasn't much that could be done so prescribed physio. Physio almost immediately caused the knee to fill again. I went back to my local doctor 2 weeks ago and her aspirated 130ml out of the knee this time. I went to physio again and it seems to have filled up to half the size it was two weeks ago and I just feel so depressed with it. Has anyone had similar and able to recommend an actual strategy that doesn't have me risking a knee joint infection every few months or weeks.
Background: 30, male, around 6'4'' (195cm), 160lbs (70kg), in (hopefully) generally good health. Relatively physically active, recently suspected of having RA (read below).
History: I've been experiencing on-and-off knee problems for the past 4-5 years. Basically, from time to time (1-2x / yr), my (usually right) knee would hurt, swell, and make it hard for me to walk, for a day or two. My mother and grandmother have had undiagnosed joint issues all my life, so I always half-jokingly called my issues "arthritis", but never went to see a doctor. This spring, I had a different episode where the back of the right knee hurt me for a few weeks, but it was a lower-intensity pain. I have no other noticeable joint issues.
In August, I had a significant episode where the right knee and the whole leg got visibly swollen, there was strong pain in the back of the knee, and I had to walk with a limp. I saw an ortho, who did X-ray and an ultrasound, said I had excess synovial fluid in both the back and the front of the knee, but that nothing else seems to be wrong, and drained the fluid. He ordered a batch of blood tests, mostly to check for rheumatic conditions, and tests of the fluid. CRP and ESR showed inflammation, but everything else came back negative including RF, CCP and ANA. The fluid (opaque yellow) indicated an ongoing inflammation, but no gout, pseudogout, etc. After draining, things went back to normal.
Since then (late August) I have been basically overproducing synovial fluid. There is no other real pain, but my right knee is often warmer than the other one. I went for another aspiration in mid-September because the back of the knee started getting tight, and the doctor commented that the fluid looks better this time (dark clear yellow). He said that if he had to make a diagnosis, he would bet on atypical RA and referred me to a rheumatologist. He gave me a steroid shot in the knee, but nothing changed. I am now again starting to feel tightness in the back of the knee, so I might have to go for another aspiration in a week or so, but I'm waiting to see how it develops.
I have a rheumatologist appointment in November, but while I'm waiting I am wondering if anyone has any experiences with how to deal with fluid overproduction without needing to aspirate it every 3 weeks.
Hi, everyone! Last year, around July, I had an infection in my mouth and had to drain with a needle the pus. After 3 days with meds on my vains I felt brand new. But, after a few weeks, I started having psoríasis on my head. And with it pain in my back which I thought it was from the mattress. So I bought a new one. I, then in October 24th got a nose job and the pain went away. But in late January this year my pain in my back came again, and with it a vengeance and other body parts, left shoulder, hip(both sides), jaw(right side) , left knee, left foot and a swoolen finger. The ER doctor said it is psoriatic arthritis and gave me prednisone which helped a lot. As I was leaving prednisone psoriasis came in a lot of places I never had. Little drops everywhere, in my belly button, sides of nose, corners of my mouth, back, ass, feet and of course head and ears but, to be honest, I can handle the psoriasis but psoriatic arthritis hurts like a bitch still. Not like it was before the prednisone but still very painful. So want I wanted to ask you is, I feel a little swollen on my back have you taken the synovial fluid and see if it has any sort of bacteria, fungus, virus or whatever? If so would you mind saying the results? I only have appointment with the auto immune specialist in June due to covid 19. I already did ANA test 1:80. Cpr 72<3 aslo 489<200. I'm thinking of searching for h. Pylori in my stool... And maybe candida. And E. Aureus. I think is some sort of bacteria that sets our body into over drive. So I'll search for any in my body. If you cna share any experience that would be great. P. S. Diet didn't work for me.
I wonder, if caffeine dehydrates body, so joints should also be... dehydrated. I mean, if my my hands become dry, hair become dry, experiencing dryness in my mouth, a bit dried eyes... why not suppose that the fluid between the joints can be also dehydrated? It is even possible to suppose that it also can play role in fragility of the bones. If it is so, caffeine is not healthy for the bones at all. Now I'm wandering the difference between bone strength on caffeine and off caffeine. What are your experiences on caffeine and off, speaking about the bone and joint health?
Mods on r/NoStupidQuestions said this was a big nono over ther, so now I’m here.
So I'm on my first day post OP of my 6th knee surgery. This one was a weird one, and I couldn't find much info when I was searching the interwebs for help.
I figured I'd throw this up here and maybe someday someone else with something similar going on would stumble upon it.
The knee in question had an ACL reconstruction done about 2 years ago. The problem was that I never really got back full range of motion. It was damn close, and I could push it to probably near full, but I had pain at full extension. Sharp, shooting pain. When stretching it out, it would get better, but only for a period of time.
Additionally, I had a knob of sorts on my incision site. For the first 18 months or so I just thought I had scar tissue build up and I was slowly improving. But then I started to have setbacks. That knob on my knee started to hurt to touch after a lot of activity. The knee just felt... off. Lots of stiffness, pain. It was just not a good knee.
So a few ortho appointments, an MRI and finally a decision to do an arthroscopic surgery to see whats going on. Possibilities included scar tissue removal, addressing the screw in the knee where the incision site was that was causing the knob, potential bone graft in the tibia tunnel running from the knee to the scar site, and finally potentially having to re-do the acl graft.
After the surgery, I feel pretty happy. The ACL graft was fine. The screw they used in the previous graft was biodegradeable, which was happening with the exception of one small part. This was where the knob was. Apparently bone had started to grow/encapsulate that part of the screw. So the doctor had to remove that part of the bone.
I also had a ton of scar tissue that needed to be removed.
And finally, he did a bone graft in that tunnel so that the fluid doesn't drain from my knee to the incision sites anymore causing issues.
First post op appointment is in 2 weeks. I have PT scheduled for Monday though. Not really to sure what to expect there. From talking to the doc after the surgery though, it sounds like a return to full activity in 6-8 weeks. So not to shabby, compared to what it could have been!
I just figured it was such a weird set of issues that I would document it in case someone else had a similar problem down the road. Happy to answer any questions people have.
10 weeks post op and my ortho suggested i get gel shots in my knee once a year to help slow the progression of osteoarthritis. wanted to see if anyone else has personal experience with these shots.. i just turned 26 and am hesitant to accept that i need to get these shots once a year for the rest of my life. i’m also wondering if they’re necessary or if the doctor’s office just wants the revenue. my PT also agreed that i may not need them just yet
I returned to play basketball a month ago, as mi PT gave the authorization to do it, so I started to play, not at the same level, but I was getting some of my bounce back and recovering my normal speed very well, but while I was playing I started to feel my knee a little bit unstable, so as probably you know I freaked out! I thought I had torn my ACL again so I went did an MRI and luckyly my ligament is fine, but I have Synovial fluid, that is causing my knee to block some times and that is an extremely frustrating feeling, because I have to manually return my knee to its place.
I'd like to know if any of you had experience something like this and if you did, how did you deal with it?
Is this the type of fluid that chiropractors talk about? Why can it be helpful to change the level of said fluid in our joints?
Background: 30, male, around 6'4'' (195cm), 160lbs (70kg), Caucasian, North America, in (hopefully) generally good health. Relevant medical history below, no other medication. Relatively physically active, but no sports.
History: I've been experiencing on-and-off knee problems for the past 4-5 years. Basically, from time to time (1-2x / yr), my (usually right) knee would hurt, swell, and make it hard for me to walk, for a day or two. This spring, I had a slightly different episode where the back of the right knee hurt me for a few weeks, but it was a lower-intensity pain. I have no other noticeable joint issues.
In August, I had a significant episode where the right knee and the whole leg got visibly swollen, there was strong pain in the back of the knee, and I had to walk with a limp. I saw a doctor, who did X-ray and an ultrasound, said I had excess fluid in both the back and the front of the knee, but that nothing else seems to be wrong and aspirated it. He ordered a batch of blood tests, mostly to check for rheumatic conditions, and tests of the synovial fluid. Everything was fine with the blood (except indicating inflammation), all tests except CRP and ESR came back negative including rheumatoid factor and ANA. The synovial fluid (milky yellow) indicated an ongoing inflammation, but no gout, pseudogout, etc. After aspiration, things went back to normal.
Since then (late August) I have been basically overproducing synovial fluid. There is no other real pain, but my right knee is often slightly warmer than the other one. I went for another aspiration in mid-September because the back of the knee started getting tight, and the doctor commented that the fluid looks better this time (dark clear yellow). He then gave me a steroid shot in the knee, but nothing changed. I am now again starting to feel tightness in the back of the knee, so I might have to go for another aspiration.
I have a rheumatologist appointment, but that is not until November. I am wondering if anyone has thoughts on what this might be.
