Anyone ever tear an MCL? If so please describe the sensation. Please no medical advice.

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

[ZombieHorde]

1. No, and I know you asked for no medical advice, but I have to say,

drinking the blood of an unbaptized virgin will make you feel much better.

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

2. Having swallowed a lot of blood in my lifetime, I can't say I'm a big fan.

My own blood of course.

[ZombieHorde]

8. "My own blood of course."

Not everyone enjoys masturbation as much as the shared experience.

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

9. There has always been someone else involved when I have swallowed my own blood.

Either the person punching me in the face or an unprepared doctor and dentist without suction handy. I would say, "Nobody makes me bleed my own blood" but obviously that isn't true.

[enlightenment]

3. The immediate sensation or the sensation that follows?

I have not had an MCL injury, but I have had at least half a dozen LCL injuries - kind of the opposite number. They may or may not present in a similar fashion, so for what it's worth:

1. knee buckled outward, accompanied by sharp, intense pain directly over the site (of the ligament)
2. on my way to the floor, I had time to contemplate the extreme 'owwie-ness' of that pain and identify the source - so it was a pointed and direct, stabbing sort of pain rather than diffuse
3. the swelling began almost immediately - a combination of the ligament tear and the subluxation of the joint
4. the intense pain subsided quickly (within a few minutes, really), but the swelling caused its own level of painful sensation that lasted considerably longer.

Totally subjective - I'd put the quality of the initial pain at about a 7/8 - the later diffuse pain about a 5/6, depending on whether I tried to actually bend or straighten my knee.

Hope you're not hurting, Dave!

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

6. I could only describe this as a tearing pain followed by intense burning for 4 hours now.

The joint is still very stable though.

[enlightenment]

7. oh, yum. That sounds like it was fun. Not.

Excellent to hear that the joint is stable, though.

[Historic NY]

4. aah, nope I got one of those other things.

Triple A.

http://www.medicinenet.com/abdominal_aortic_aneurysm/article.htm

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

5. Have they repaired it?