I *love* my new doctor ( Read more... )

Bad sciatica day. Very bad sciatica day. My lower back is aching constantly and the sciatica itself is manifesting not only as shooting pains from hip to toe, but also as accompanying involuntary muscle spasms in the area of my left knee, which does not like being made to tense up every 30 seconds or so and is consequently aching constantly as ( Read more... )

Ok, so 45 mins or so and I can go home. I hate having to work weekends, although as far as work goes it hasn't been that bad. Very slow. Just to complete the whinge, I'm having a bad sciatica day and a bad knee day -- the two, of course, may be related. There's a retirement party for one of my co-workers this evening at a local restaurant, so ( Read more... )

My knee continues to feel . . . wrong ( Read more... )

Ok so last night was a bad night, sleep-wise. I had trouble falling asleep, trouble staying asleep, and when I was asleep, I had vivid and disturbing dreams that more often than not woke me up. One of them involved the protracted death of my (in the dream) pet rat Gormless, who I had had since I was 6 and was now nearing his 20th birthday, and in ( Read more... )

So I did in fact tear a tendon in my knee. It's apparently a minor tear, so I've got a soft brace I'm supposed to wear for a week. It actually does help -- makes the knee feel a little more stable. And pretty much makes it impossible for me to twist it.

Of course my sciatica is acting up as well. I feel like such a gimp.

I intend to nap when I get home. Of course, it'll probably be ages until I get home, because I expect to be waiting for awhile at the doctor's office. I'm increasingly convinced that while I may be making it out to be worse than it is, there is still *something* wrong with my knee that wasn't wrong with it yesterday. It holds my weight just fine ( Read more... )

I really can't wait until August. This is getting ridiculous. I've got a huge list of things I need to have checked out ( Read more... )