I fixed myself all by myself, so there!

[dixiegrrrrl]

Been having killer knee and leg pain for past 4 months.
Went to doc, who says...arthritis.
But that did not explain muscle pain in my upper thighs.
However, took the scripts for serious pain relief, the pills work.
For 4 hours.
Then it gets bad again. Way past aspirin bad.

Now, I admit I spend a lot of time in front of the puter, but I do get up and walk around every 30 minutes, do a chore or 2, do errands,
stiffly.

Last night I got a revelation....I had been walking around, painfully, after being on the puter, and I sat down on the hallway chair waiting
to let the dog back in. It's a nice sturdy flat seated chair, the kind you find at oak tables. The seat is a bit higher than my puter chair.
And when I stood up after 10 minutes, my legs felt fine.
So I sat down again, and moved my legs, and the knees did not talk back to me.

I examined that chair, them my puter chair.....looked to see where each was hitting my legs when I sat.

I am now in the puter chair, with a 2 inch cushion under me, sitting a bit higher, and the backs of my legs are resting on the chair pad
at a different ...length ( hard to explain. chair bottom does not hit as far down on my back thighs as it did before )
And my legs, knees and thigh muscles are not hurting.
They are still a bit stiff, I will need to walk around to keep them loosened, but not hurting like hell)

[Thinkingabout]

1. Relief is welcome in any form. Thanks for the information.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

2. I get this 100%. That point of contact with the thighs is critical, as is the cushion.

My knees do best with a hard chair seat and a short seat length.

[dixiegrrrrl]

3. That's the term I was looking for...seat length.

Amazing how oblivious I could be about something as simple as where I spend so much time sitting. Duh.

[eppur_se_muova]

6. Yep, blood vessels are much closer to the surface near the knees ...

and less protected by fat and muscle. Resting the backs of the knees on the edge of a flat surface will make your lower legs go numb in a hurry. Need to keep them forward of the seat, whether it's padded or hard.

[tridim]

4. I healed my frozen shoulder myself with persistence.

Doctor wanted to schedule expensive shoulder surgery. Sorry pal.

The best part is that it helped me understand how important exercise is for health, I haven't stopped 6 years later.

Good luck to you.

[dixiegrrrrl]

7. I had that once.....about 15 years ago.

A friend said hers went away after she started sleeping with 2 pillows instead of one.
and that worked for me.
Fixed it right up.

[Ratty]

5. I cured my crippling sciatica

By moving my wallet from one back pocket to the other. Dr sent me to a physical therapist who rubbed me twice a week with an ultrasonic gizmo while I lay there desperately biting back the urge to quack like a duck. Did nothing of course. Then someone suggested the wallet thing they had heard "somewhere" and within a week it was all gone. I have a pretty big George Costanza packed wallet.

This year I have had pretty bad neck/shoulder pain on my right side - I looked like a mummy or something whenever I have to turn to look at something. I thought it would go away after awhile like those kinds of things typically do but it persisted for months. Then I remembered the wallet thing and started carrying my backpack on the other pain-free shoulder. Like my wallet my backpack is packed and heavy - I keep my life in there. This time it took a couple of weeks but tada! No more neck pain!

Aren't those kinds of revelations like you've had wonderful things?