Ouch, meghan_557; that sounds really awful... As a guy I can't speak to the pregnancy aspect but I can speak to feeling my knees go weak when I carry my young kids, especially going down the stairs. Occasionally I feel twinges like something bad is going to happen there- this is in my right knee with past water on the knee problems. Carrying them down stairs when I'm tired is when it happens and I'm extra cautious as I'm petrified of dropping one of them (I have two). Actually once I dropped my son when my leg gave out, but that was because I was standing up with him at a weird angle and put my foot on a piece of dropped food (or maybe it was burp up) on a wood floor - and my foot shot out, I collapsed & dropped him. (thank God he was OK).
Bottom line it's a lot of extra weight on a tired joint. Also, I know from playing basketball that women are more prone to injuries (esp ACL tears) during certain periods in their hormonal cycles, so hormones post pregnancy may have a lot to do with it. BTW, a support brace might also be a good option- if I felt my knee getting worse, I'd personally consider that 1st to protect my kids. Good luck!
09/10/2010 03:21 PM
meghan_557
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Two years ago I dislocated my knee for no apparent reason. I had just delivered my baby, was still in the hospital standing beside the bed with baby in my arms and suddenlty me leg went out - I fell to the bed and screamed bloody murder! Nurses came running and all looked stunned - had no idea what just happen (and neither did I ). All I remember is the immense pain and the look of my lower left leg - it was completely in an outward direction, jutting off to the left side. They got a doctor over and she straighten my leg and the major pain relieved almost rigth away. The doctors had no explanation for what happen - other than b/c ligament losen during pregnancy?! WTF Anyway I was in an imobolizer brace for 10 days and walked on crutches for a month more, then sent to physiotheraphy to rebuilt my leg muscles and gain full rainge of motion in my knee. The theraphy did work - but I went for 3 months!
Then just a month ago somethng happen to my knee again - not sure what, it certainly wasn't the same thing but I fell for no apparent reason, banged concrete floor right on my knee cap - got right back up and walked and then 7 days laterIi got a huge amount of pressure and swelling in my knee. I saw a doc and he thinks my knee subluxed which is why I fell. I have been goingto Physiotherapy again and the pressure is subsiding a bit but I still feel unstable and some pressure - sometimes it almost feesl like my knee (or whole leg) is misaligned. I'm waitingto see an Ortho surgeon to see if he thinks I require surgury. I wanted to know if anyone else has experienced anything similar - a dislocation without trauma? a dislocation after pregnancy? A subluxation and then no pressure, swelling, pain until 7-10 days later?
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