Sudden onset of knee joint pain?
Never had any knee pain before. After about 5 mile walk, August 5, 2008, the next morning both knees were hurting. The right cleared up in a week. But the left has been stiff and painful ever since, also calf muscle and heel gets tight as drum too. I had been at resort at the time and in the common hot tub prior to onset. Knee specialist ordered MRI, and saw knee specialist. He advised no damage, everything looked pretty good, the radiologist's report noted some inflamation, which (rightly or wrongly?) he attributed to arthritis. I am not comfortable with that diagnosis. As this was not a gradual thing...but overnight onset. Anyone have any other suggestions. On walks, the longer I walk the better it gets, until no discomfort at all. If I sit, both knees now get stiff, and have to take stutter steps to get going.
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1. It is not unusual to have arthritis show up as a sudden onset of pain especially in your knees or hips. Early osteoarthritis may not show any symptoms until you over use the joint. This aggravation of the joint causes the inflammation to increase, which in turn cause a slight advancement of the disease.Arthritis pain most often lessens with the use of a joint. Sitting usually causes the pain to get worse.
Here is some more information about knee pain.
http://arthritis-symptom.com/pain/knee-pain.htm
