05-07-2019, 01:31 PM
I do eat cherries.
My ortho doc (very experienced. Director of local hospital, did my wife's hip and both knees and my right shoulder...and has known of our motorcycle riding for 20 years or more) seemed a little confused by all the blood work results and with the note on the hospital paper work that there was a Bakers Cyst in the back of the knee, which he seemed to dismiss saying it was caused by fluid build up, and I think gout was just a process of elimination thing, but he ordered the blood test for uric acid as a back up to his theory. He also said my bilirubin was elevated a bit, but not much, and nothing to worry about....whatever that is. He also said we are not going to worry about the torn meniscus at this point.
It is feeling a lot better tonight and the swelling is way down with the fluid drain and the pain pill and the steroids. At least I no longer scream when getting up or sitting in the recliner which I have been sleeping in (or getting up and down on the loo).... and my wife no longer has to help me getting up and down because I absolutely could not get up and down by myself before.
I'm not ready to climb back on a motorcycle just yet, but I can see it happening in the not too distance future. Must be patient.
My ortho doc (very experienced. Director of local hospital, did my wife's hip and both knees and my right shoulder...and has known of our motorcycle riding for 20 years or more) seemed a little confused by all the blood work results and with the note on the hospital paper work that there was a Bakers Cyst in the back of the knee, which he seemed to dismiss saying it was caused by fluid build up, and I think gout was just a process of elimination thing, but he ordered the blood test for uric acid as a back up to his theory. He also said my bilirubin was elevated a bit, but not much, and nothing to worry about....whatever that is. He also said we are not going to worry about the torn meniscus at this point.
It is feeling a lot better tonight and the swelling is way down with the fluid drain and the pain pill and the steroids. At least I no longer scream when getting up or sitting in the recliner which I have been sleeping in (or getting up and down on the loo).... and my wife no longer has to help me getting up and down because I absolutely could not get up and down by myself before.
I'm not ready to climb back on a motorcycle just yet, but I can see it happening in the not too distance future. Must be patient.