I hope it gets better!

My knee that is.  At work yesterday morning, I was on my knees pulling up some laminate wood flooring when all at once my left knee started to bark!  Felt like I knelt down on a drywall nail, if anyone has ever done that. Started to swell as well, not really much or any color change to black & blue. Just stiff and sore, swelling is there, sore as all get out, just below my knee cap, and down both sides of the bone running down my leg.

I had a similar problem when I was still playing baseball. I was a catcher and I went from my crouch to my knees and something popped and, like you said, felt like a nail. Turns out it was a pulled muscle

DiyDave wrote: I hear nike is running a special on knee pads...

Macgregor I think is the brand name. Menards carries them.

Nike is all sold out to the kneelers on the NFL.

hope you feel better fast Dave!

Well I went to the doctor today, good news and bad!   As far as now, I don't have a tear or any other similar issue.  I have a severe inter knee infection.  The bursae sp? sack is filled with fluid, and extremely infected.  So I am off work for at least a week, got to call the doc Friday with a update, then he MAY try to drain it,  brace on the leg, ice as often as possible that I can stand, with-out freezing the outer tissues.

I agree, and the Doc did that for me, in MY language, not Doctor talk!

if you gits any knee pads, just remember that any of them that have the hard plastic on the outside gits real slippery when you are trying to do things either pushing or pulling

I went back for a follow up visit today.  Still about the same, lots of infection, sore, and swelling.  Still to mush swelling to be able to drain as the Doc said.  I go back on Tuesday, then see what happens. He said that if I get a fever, head for the ER!

Keep us posted Dave. I have an appointment this Thursday for a nearly identical problem called them two weeks ago and that was the earliest they could get me in.

Update on my knee. 

Edited by Dave in PA - 30 Sep 2018 at 3:25pm

Dave...they make good tasting yogurt nowadays! I always hated it too, but now I buys it often. I like the "great value" brand with blueberries. and they makes flavored yogurt ice cream too! called "frozen yogurt". that's mighty tasty stuff! it'll clean yer pipes out too...that's a good thing!

UPDATE!!!

shucks...I gots one of them big ole syringes we used on the cows and hogs, we could have sucked that stuff out prolly cheaper!