Kickas.org Forums Ankylosing Spondylitis General Discussion #1 AS Web Support Group Great News....there is NOTHING wrong with my knees

For those of you that have read previous posts about my knees I have to share a tidbit of info I found out today. I went to the Chiropractor today for the recent pain I have been having and he was the one who sent me for the 'special' xrays I had on my knees. I was told they are more like a CT than a regular Xray. Anyway, when I went into the little room at the Chiropractors today they gave me my chart to put in the slot and right there was the report from the xray place. So of course I took it out and read it. Their report said there was NOTHING wrong with my knees. No arthritis etc etc. They did suggest maybe a Bone Scan or MRI.

Can you believe it??? Great News....there is NOTHING wrong with my knees !!!!
That explains why I can hardly bend them without screaming....
Going up or down the slightest step or two or three is near suicide

Sherri

Doesn't pan out Sherri - go get thee an MRI or Bone Scan. Run it past your rheumy which one to go for. Gotta be summat up, no one with your knees has nowt wrong with em - sheesh!

Molly

Sounds like a similar issue I had with my left foot this spring - xrays 2 years ago showed joint space narrowing, degeneration, spurring, etc.

After several months of bad pain, asked for an xray this spring - report says there is NOTHING wrong with my foot. No degeneration, no joint space narrowing. No nothing. Completely normal. Not even the same changes I had 2 years ago are reported. I asked my doctor if all the arthritic changes just suddenly disappeared on their own. She had no explanation.

Is there someone else who could read your xrays? They could have been misread. The xrays I had done a few years ago on my SIs were reported as normal by the local hospital radiologist (my cat scan & bone scan said different). Anyway, I took them to my rheumatologist who said he could see the changes in my SIs & he's not even a radiologist!!!

Good luck - keep pursuing it.

I'm sorry, I just have to laugh. Personally, I think it's purely subjective and dependent on how much coffee the technician has had.

My first few sets of x-rays clearly showed a fused left SI and squared off thoracics. A couple of years ago, I had new x-rays done that showed a partially fused left SI perfectly normal thoracics. I had more x-rays done at the end of this past August. I got talking to the technician, asking questions, pumping him for clues. They aren't supposed to say anything, but as he's setting me up for one of the sets of x-rays, he leans in and whispers, "You know you have a fused left SI, right?" Didn't get the thoracics done in that set, but who knows what could happen the next time.

I agree with the others. Get a bone scan or MRI done.

That said, congratulations on having perfectly normal knees!!!!

Many hugs,

Sherri, forgive me for not knowing your previous symptoms of your knees, other than what you just mentioned "pain". I have been gone a long time, but as the "old-timers" know, my main affliction was "melon knee". I think I described the pain as "cutting open my knee and pouring battery acid in it". (btw--I would always have a "flare" in one or the other never both at the same time) To this day, i really have nothing "wrong" medically with my knees, i.e. no torn acl, no miniscus tear etc. Since enbrel, I can run, jump, dance, volley, etc. The pain was caused by my overproduction of cells in the lining of my knees aka synovial fluid and an occasional bout with gout. In the days before Enbrel, I would have my knees aspirated to the tune of 800ml per knee and cortisone injections etc. . Sometimes the relief would last 2 months, sometimes 2 days. Once I got A.S. under control, the swelling and pain does not re-occur. I hope this helps. Warmest, Teresa