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Cold water exposure may help
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Gentle exercise helps mine, spinning lighter gears etc. I also do yoga each morning.
I have had three arthroscopies (two in right knee, one in left) surgeons have described my cartilage as being like a soft wet sponge and there is already joint degradation. Long term I am likely to need artificial knees.
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I have had the same diagnosis but he won’t send me for an MRI. Mine came to the fore when I started playing cricket again.
I’m likely behind you as I don’t have the bag of pebbles feeling. It manifests itself as a constant ache for a couple of days at a time and a physio says there’s a chronic lack of stability in my knee, hence the two twist injuries I suffered last year.
I’m fine cycling. I wear a support for running and cricket and when I go hiking on anything other than well maintained trails.
I’ve managed mine with ibuprofen tablets and gel so far but I know it’ll fall apart one day. I’ll cross that bridge when I come to it.
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Doctor has diagnosed me (pending an MRI in the new year) with arthritis in my left knee. I had an injury as a teenager and the doctor told me I'd almost certainly get it earlier than I would have otherwise.
Other than keeping active and discussing the medical options, is there anything I can do to help mitigate it/live with it? Had the wind knocked out of my sails a bit so trying to focus on doing something than the possibility that the end of "doing something" years might be looming into sight.