Knee jerk reaction

I realized I never followed up on my knee and my appointment with the orthopedist.  Not that I think you've all been waiting with bated breath, but I figured I should follow through.

So the doc said he thinks it might be my medial meniscus.  Which is way better than it being one of the ligaments.  He did find it strange that it would start bothering me without any sort of injury to spark it.  He said that if I were older and not in shape it would be possible that it would have just been worn down over time, but since I'm not he wasn't so sure what may have caused the issue.  Perhaps I had an injury but didn't register it as an injury.  Just a thought.

So the next step is an MRI, but since my insurance isn't the best, we're taking a conservative approach and first doing Aleve/ice every day.  I'll go back in a bit under a month and if there's been no improvement we'll move forward with an MRI.  So more to come.  No difference yet, but it's early.

Injury Update

So here's the outcome of my doctor's appointment today.  Lovely, right?  Thankfully it's not a serious injury and he seems to think that 3 weeks of wearing this brace should do the trick.  The good news is that he said I can pretty much do whatever I want, as long as the brace is on.  So i'm going to test this out at the gym tonight and we'll see how it goes.

Xrays didn't show any  major issues, aside from a "deformity" (my term, not his).  The wrist is made up of the radius and the ulna.  Well I guess one of them is typically straight and the other is a bit curved (not sure which is which) but on me, they're reversed and the straight one is curved, etc.  Leave it to me to be a little different.

So he said it just seems like a bit of trauma/irritation from whatever I did plus a little carpal tunnel.  So i'm on advil 3x's a day for the next week and then the brace as often as possible for the next three weeks.  Then hopefully i'll be cured!

Now I can do a weekly post on what it's like to workout with a brace on.  Ha!

How do you deal with injuries?

You know the story, you're eating well and exercising, you have a great routine going and then bam! you get injured.  There's no nice way to say it, it sucks!

Athletes are notorious for wanting to get back to working out before they're ready to.  But it really is important to take the necessary recuperation time before going back to working out your injured body part.

That said, I injured my wrist when I was in Costa Rica.  I think it either happened during white water rafting or ziplining, or maybe it occured during one but was exacerbated by the other.  Who knows.  It wasn't anything horrible so I hoped it would heal on it's own.

I've been back from CR for about a month now and unfortunately it's still bothering me.  It's gotten a bit worse in the past couple of days but hopefully that's just from overuse.  Regardless, I bit the bullet and booked an orthopaedic appointment for Thursday.  Thursday can't come soon enough as I'd really like to know what is wrong and what I can do to fix it.  Ugh.

I'll keep you posted!