I was diagnosed with arthritis in my knees when I was 13 years old ... not Rheumatoid Arthritis, plain old regular osteoarthritis. I'm almost 25 now, and I feel like my left knee has about had it. For the past two weeks, my knee feels like it "buckles" ... for example, when I go down the steps and put my weight on my left leg, it feels like my knee is going to give out from underneath me. And I'm really in an awful lot of pain. The saddest thing is that I'm allergic to basically everything in the non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug family.
I've been to the ER, and they just tell me to see my family practitioner, and I can't do that because I have no insurance and can't afford to pay up front right now.
Has anyone else dealt with this problem? How did you handle it? And what can I do about all this chronic pain???
2007-04-13
16:30:58
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