Suggest Treatment For Severe Pain On Knee Sides

Posted on Tue, 9 Sep 2014

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Question : Doctor , I have severe pain on the sides of my knee. I have been doing road running for a while now and yesterday I started feeling the pain while running. My night it as so bad that I just could not lift my leg. Could not sleep through the night due to intense pain. I applied Volini cream locally and applied ice on the impacted area, but the pain has just not subsided. I have had a history of High Uric acid for the last several years , and i have been on a high protien diet for the last few days. Please advice the diet and the medications I should follow to cure this.

Answered by Dr. Dr. Naveen Kumar Sharma (25 minutes later)

Brief Answer:
May be you are having arthritis of the knee joint

Detailed Answer:
Hello,
I have studied your case and I think you are having osteoarthritis of the knee joint. It may or may not be related to GOUT. I would suggest you following investigations to confirm the diagnosis.
1.X ray of the both knee joint.
2. Serum uric acid level.
3. Aspiration of fluid from knee joint and its analysis
After these three tests It will be confirmed that whether your pain is due to GOUT or osteoarthritis. Till we confirm this diagnosis, I would suggest you following.
1. Avoid walking on road, It is any way not good for knee as it causes cartilage damage, rather use a grass fields or treadmill for running.
2. Avoid squatting and sitting cross leg or using stairs.
3. Avoid high protein diet and fruits and vegetables with seeds like tomato.
4. If pain is very bad take Etoricoxib 90 mg whenever needed after discussing with your doctor.
Please send me results of these three tests. I will try my best to help you.
Thanks.

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