Zebra files 46) Treatment Follow Up

Treatment Follow Up: Hyaluronic Acid Injections in the Knee

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I have to admit that I’m incredibly thankful that I don’t have to face more knee injections this week.

I can’t stress enough how much they hurt.

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Now it’s been a little under a week since my third round of hyaluronic knee injections, and I want to give a little update.

My knees feel dramatically better.

They still click. There are still pains of daily living experienced through these joints, but I’m not battling my knees to go up or down stairs now.

Actually, by addressing my knees, my hips are doing far better, because they don’t have to work so hard to compensate.

Transitioning from sitting to standing and vice versa is much less problematic. This makes a dramatic difference in things like my ability to cook dinner.

My knees are not keeping me awake all night, and they had been preventing sleep every single night.

It’s hard to explain how all of my individual pains are combined into a grand sense of pain. Every appointment, when they ask what my pain level is, I have to ask if they mean my overall pain number, or the pain coming from the specific body part that the appointment is for.

Specifically, my knees, back, and hips are felt together. I experience these pains in concert, and can’t always separate which part is contributing which sensation.

It probably doesn’t help that pain like this causes a LOT of dissociation.

Although my knees still hurt, I can tell that the injections made a significant contribution to reducing my pain load, and I can pinpoint activities that are easier as a result.

I’m grateful.

Thankfully, I should have at least 3 months before I need to go through the hard part again.

Admittedly, three months doesn’t seem that long compared to two weeks receiving three injections. That’s 2 out of every 12 weeks, in which I have to be in a place to endure that kind of pain. I have to organize support, because it wipes me out for the rest of the day, and I can’t even sit normally for about 3 days. I have to make sure I have a ride, and show up for three weekly appointments.

There’s no way I could have pursued this if I was still working. I also think it’s a significant barrier to care that anyone seeking this treatment has to be able to burden someone else for that many repetitions.

I am lucky to be deeply loved and supported, but this hasn’t always been the case, and I can’t help but think of all of the time in my life when I couldn’t have pursued this.

I hope this provides a little insight to the experience of hyaluronic knee injections.

Thank you for reading!

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