Jan 21, 2016

The nurse is about to call me in


I love you guys

 

Jan 20, 2016

Thanks Loyalty, today is actually the day I get the call to tell me the instructions and stuff. Surgery is tomorrow at 8:30 but I have to be there at 6:30. I'm so anxious, this is the day I've been waiting for, for months

 

Jan 20, 2016

Glad to see there's quite a bit of runners here. I currently run six days a week about 3-6 miles depending on the day. Initially I started running for anxiety relief, but it's something that I've come to love. My friend and I are considering running a half-marathon later this year.

 

Jan 19, 2016

yeah, it was fun. perfect running weather too; about 65. And i have zero knee pain right now which is a bonus. feeling good

 

Jan 11, 2016

Ok a few of you may have known that I broken my foot mid October last year (same bone as Joel Embiid lol). I've recovered well and theres a good chance that I'll be taking a few running drills to get back in shape in a week or so. I can't wait and I'll be checking into this thread.

 

Jan 11, 2016

I haven't been running or hooping much for the past few weeks. I played for the 1st time in 2 weeks yesterday and felt slow as h---, so I need to get after it a bit more this week. 2 miles after the Bulls game it is.

 

Dec 20, 2015

I had major knee surgeries back in 2006 and 9 months post op the pain in my left knee was unbearable. My orthopedic surgeon recommended a cortisone shot and said to give it 3 weeks. I didn't feel amy improvement whatsoever until like exactly the 3 week mark. The knee pain was gone and never came back. Also, squatting is great for knee health/pain.

TLDR- Give it more time and squat.

 

Dec 16, 2015

Yeah we'll see how it goes. He found a baker's cyst in my knee which is usually caused by tears but made me got some blood drawn too cause the cyst is a result of lyme's disease sometimes. He said if I'm hurting on Monday then he'll drill in the and stick a camera in there and see what he finds. It most likely is a tear though. I'm just glad this will be fixed soon.

 

Dec 16, 2015

d--- those are a pain in the a---. They can definitely help though. I hope it works out man.

 

Oct 23, 2015

Well thats how I started running and I do enjoy that much more as you can see you are constantly moving. I love the scenery and I have a love/hate relationship with hills but I got a gym membership for when the weather starts to get cold since its starting and thats the reason I have been on the treadmill for almost all of my runs lately

 

Sep 29, 2015

Wow it's been a while guys. I don't think I ever followed up with you, but anyways here it goes. After my MRI which stated that I had a torn meniscus and bursitis in the same knee, I went to a sports medicine specialist. He twisted my knee and reviewed my MRI with me and said he didn't see anything. Told me that if my meniscus was torn I woulda felt some serious pain the way he was messing with my knee. I thought something was off too since my knee which was supposed to have bursitis wasn't swollen or anything. Anyways that was beginning of September. He told me to keep weight off it for a month, so no more leg press, calf extensions and heavy lifting. Ended up taking it easy somewhat and knee started to feel better but every time I went to my produce job where I have to pick up 50 pound sacks of potatoes and s---, my knee would flare back up. After about a month of debating whether I wanna ball out and not be able to run, or budget and run happily again, I went with running. Turned in my two weeks notice about two weeks ago and today's my last day on the job. School's been much harder this semester anyways and there's no way I coulda pulled off 40+ hours and full time school. Especially with the kind of classes I'm taking now. I'll probably just focus on my core and keep in the gym for October, then try running again in November. Really excited to see what happens. Here's a picture of my two medals I was just looking at, looking at them reassured me I made the right choice =]

Spoiler: Medals

 

Aug 26, 2015

Been getting runs in almost everyday trying to gain my stamina back. I'm active as h--- but it's not where I want it to be. Got a mile in today clocking in at 8 min, best time yet.

 

Aug 26, 2015

sprints on an empty stomach - usually first thing in the morning before I eat, 5 minute warmup and then 1 minute sprint, 30 seconds rest for 20 mins. Not exactly sure of how it works technically, but I'm seeing insane results.

 

Aug 25, 2015

I honestly don't know. It might have been a gradual tear that worsened over time. I had been experiencing discomfort since January but I figured it was just from over training. It wasn't until my most recent half marathon back in March that I started to lose stability/feel a burn in my knee. The two theories I came up with are tearing it during a regular run outside. I run on the streets so sometimes I gotta cross the road but when I do it has to be really quick sometimes since there's traffic depending on what time I go at. When I would do those sudden turns I'd literally be running straight and cut to the other side of the rode as fast as possible/super hard. Like a 90 degree turn. I think I might've put too much torque on my knee during one of those turns. The other one is that I hurt it while jumping rope. I'm a pretty decent jumpers so I know a few tricks her and there, I used to jump all around the basketball court and do kicks/side steps and stuff. I do remember the sidesteps requiring knee twisting so it might have happened there. I'm leaning more toward the first possibility though.


EDIT: s---, wrong quote.

 

Aug 25, 2015

Thanks man

I thought about D Rose when the doc told me what it was lmao. Glad to hear you're ankle came back %100. I had originally done physically therapy so I don't mind it tbh, I'm more than willing to put in the work. I'm a pretty active dude between school and work. One of my jobs involves somewhat heavy lifting (50 pounds max) so idk if I should just find another one instead. I only put in 15 hours a week there anyways. I got my brace on and everything but I don't wanna make it any worse. I stopped going to the gym too =\

I had been going and doing bike/elliptical

Appreciate the support though. Hopefully soon I'll be able to say:

"I had to Derrick Rose the knee up before I got the re-up"

 

Aug 25, 2015

Thanks man

I was super depressed about it yesterday but I'm going to a sports medicine doctor on Wednesday so I'm really happy about that. I guess he's gonna look at the MRI and go from there but the most probable outcome is surgery if I wanna run again, not to mention my knees been burning on and off for the past 6 months so it's also getting in the way of everyday activities. I just hope they can sew it back, if the tear is too bad or in a bad spot they'll just cut the bad part out. I'll run again but I'll have problems when I'm older, but the recovery will be like 1-2 months. If they do manage to sew it back together then that'll be even better since it'll be like nothing happened for the most part, but the recovery for that is longer and takes like 4-6 months

Either way, I'll keep you guys posted, thanks for the support