Ok I can't find the connection so thought i'd ask here...
Post bubs my left knee feels like an old persons knee it clicks and getting up from sitting down is painful until I walk a few steps, it's making chasing after my LO difficult !
I've never had knee pain before, never played netball much or any sport a lot as a teen. Was pretty fit any healthy going to the gym with weekly PT for the 18mo prior to birth ....
Can't figure it out ?! Don't recall hurting it in particular ?
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I think I can help! It has to do with the loosening of ligaments in the body during and after pregnancy.
I developed knee pain and weakness to the point where I felt my leg would collapse under me about 2 months after DS1 was born. Prior to pg, I had been a regular gym going and relatively active during pg. I got a referral to a specialist and had an expensive MRI done. The specialist said it was because I was fat (which I am) and was just degeneration of the knee joint and would never get better unless I lost a lot of weight. I left his office distraught. I didn't understand how "degeneration" could onset so suddenly. I went to my trusted GP who said to take fish oil tablets and see if it improves in 6 weeks or she could refer me for injections in the knee.
Sure enough my knee gradually improves (whether it was just time or the fish oil I don't know) and within about 2 months, it was completely fine (and I am still fat!). I was back at the gym, walking etc, everything completely fine.
After DS2 was born I had a bit of the same feeling in my knee, but less painful. It went away much quicker - perhaps because I got back to the gym more quickly this time...
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