Have I mentioned my pregnant knee before? I don't recall. Whatever. I'm going to kvetch again (or for the first time) on this subject so bear with me. :-P
I guess it's not unusual to experience joint pain after having gained a lot of weight in a short amount of time (like, say, with pregnancy), but for some reason only my right knee got the memo about my 30+ pound increase.
The pain -- which has come before and gone, so maybe there's hope -- has intensified over the last three days to the point that I'd rather walk around like a peg-legged pirate than bend my knee. (DH says that instinct is exactly the wrong thing to do; it'll only stiffen the joints further if I don't use them. *Pppbbfftt!*)
I can't sleep at night. Which isn't anything new, lol, but now it's not because of the frequent trips to the bathroom or the impossibility of finding a comfortable position with a 30-lb sack of potatoes permanently strapped to my midsection (not to mention the paranoia about staying on my left side to avoid squashing some critical blood veins -- whatever!). It's this pressure in my knee that keeps building and building as if it wants to pop, but it never does and no relief ever comes.
I take as many acetaminophens as I possibly can (cursing the pharmacy gods all the while that I can't take some decent pain killer like ibuprofen ... or better, wink-wink). I bought an adhesive heat wrap that I tried for the first time this morning; my knee felt nice and cozy warm for the few hours it stayed put, but the heat did nothing to ease the intensity of the pain.
I've got less than two weeks to go (HOORAY!) so even if this knee pain doesn't relent or at least lessen on its own, as it has in the past, I have hope that the loss of some of this weight will help. My knee can't stay pregnant forever, right?
OWIE.
On the bright side, my girls are treating their poor mother very well today. Uno keeps drawing me Get Well Soon pictures and Dos wants to kiss my knee and see my "scabbage" (her word for scab; I've had to tell her several times that the hurt is on the inside of my knee so there's not much to look at). What nice kids I have. :-)
~RCH~
6 years ago
4 comments:
oh my, is your pregnant knee going to have babies??!
btw, is poneybelle really coming in two weeks?! I'm sure you are very excited, as are we!
Two weeks! Two weeks! Two weeks!!
OY, sistah! I feel your pain. I get the same thing, but in my right hip. It's starting already and I'm only halfway there. ARRGH! I'd offer massage services to your knee if I knew I was going to be up your way before Ponybelle gets here. But I don't know if we will be. :( However, we have our vacation time after she gets here...maybe we'll have to take a road trip up to see you and your wee girls!
Oh, that would be lovely! (Both the massage I'm not likely to get and a visit after the baby comes, which I hope I will get!)
In the meantime, do you have any self-massagey tips? (That sounds a little bit skanky, lol.) I've tried so many things already: The adhesive heating pad which didn't work (and didn't adhese all that well either, frankly); a nice warm soak in the tub; Tylenol; continuing to bend and flex to keep it loose (OUCH!); and now Bengay. :-P And still I'm debilitated! I can hardly walk! Any advice you or anyone else can give me will be greatly appreciated.
Oh, and I'm so sorry for your hip. My knee started acting up about half way through, too, but it got better for a while! I hope yours will as well.
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