As some of you know, my legs are knackered and I’m still not sure why. Between myself and my Osteopath we have theories but until I see a specialist, we’ve no idea what the problem is.
What I do know is that there’s inflammation in and around the knee which needs to be kept down and the only way to do this is ice and ibuprofen gel. It’s now been a couple of months on the ice and gel and the general background pain that I had has reduced right down to almost 0 out of 10. I still get the odd day where it’ll flare up to a 1 or 2 but it’s not enough to worry about and if I’m concentrating of something else, I don’t even notice it. It still hurts climbing lots of stairs or walking long distances though…
Yesterday I thought I’d run an experiment. What would happen if I didn’t ice it at all? Well it’s been 24 hours and I have a result! It hurts more! The background pain stayed at a solid 1 or 2 all day going up to a 4 when going up stairs etc. I was also much more stiff which I didn’t expect! I’m glad I did it though as now I know that my leg isn’t healing as fast as hoped, if at all. We’re just managing it, meaning there may be something more permanent wrong.
What this does mean is that my theory of what’s wrong is looking more correct. Am I right? Only time will tell. I see the specialist in a few days…
