For about six months I've been getting knee/joint pain. It's more of an ache and doesn't hurt when I walk, at least not yet. I'm 33 y/o. I'm glad I found this forum/discussion board. I haven't asked my doctor because it's fairly new to me. Anyone find out what causes these pains?
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The ache I get is actually on the back of my legs but in the knee area. I have asked everyone of my friends about this is no one gets this pain. I start feeling it the day before I start and it usually lasts at least the first two days of my period. To stand for any length of time really hurts. It really is the strangest thing but my guess is that the blood vessels in that part of the body are working overtime. I do not get cramps any where else, just pain behind my legs. If I sit down, it is much better. Advil makes it all better. I really would like to know what this is all about but it makes me feel much better having read all of the posts about this issue. I truly thought I was the only one that had something weird going on. My Dr. had never heard of such a thing.
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This is me too. Im now 35, first prriod when i was 12 too. So fed up with NOTHING working. Knee pain is so bad sometimes worse than actual period pain. hip pain gets bad too. Had lots of tests just get told i get heavy periods and have to deal with it. Dont knoe what else to do.
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I too have terrible knee pain before and during my menstrual cycle. It often wakes we at night and over the counter pain medicines do not seem to help.
My doctors have shrugged their shoulders and scratched there heads and seem to dismiss this with a simple "hmmm, I don't know"
I have even gone for knee X-rays to check for arthritis and calcification. Nothing.
My doctors have shrugged their shoulders and scratched there heads and seem to dismiss this with a simple "hmmm, I don't know"
I have even gone for knee X-rays to check for arthritis and calcification. Nothing.
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Relieved to hear it waned with menopause for you!! Now at age 44, I have only just begun to experience knee pain which is literally debilitating; thank Goodness(Goddess) I immediately recognized the trend after two menstrual cycles-- immobilizing pain in both knees during the 5 or so days leading up to my period, and then back to normal with the onset of menstruation. Wild. I agree with my Sisters here -- doctors don't know a ______ thing, and Shame on Them for not Learning from patients (Women) by actually Listening to Us!! I hope the medical establishment learns to listen,and that this problem decreases in my case as I transition to menopause (which would you wager will happen sooner?). Cheers, Ladies -- Listen to Your Body and Heed Your Innate Wisdom
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Awesome sleuthing and sharing, Sister! Look how far we truly do have to take our health in our own hands. I like your line of thinking. Certainly leaps ahead of mainstream doctors, who appear only to work on received information (albeit not received from their real-life patients) -- Shaaaaame!!!
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Wow! I thought I was the only one experiencing the knee aches during my cycles. I'm glad I am not the only one
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I am 26, but getting the pain only for the first time today, both in front and back of my leg.. Lying down on my belly has given me a bit of break, as resting my knees on the bed seems to have a soothing effect. I hope this doesn't become regular..
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YOU ALL NEED TO CHECK IF YOU MAY HAVE LYME DISEASE. Especially if you have EVER been bitten by a tick. See if you have other symptoms.- fibromyalgia and arthritis are also most of the time symptoms not diseases. these two are archetypal symptoms of lyme. you do not need to have a rash to have lyme.
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Hi, I am 30 and in my teens I always felt I was the only one who had such horrid knee pains and could never understand why. Like many of you, it has been my way of knowing when my period is coming. I think it was either my Physio or a rheumatologist who told me that it is very likely to be just 'water/fluid retention' which is aggravating the knee as it can in other parts of the body. So our knees could just be filling up with excess fluid which causes the tenderness and pain. I have recently been diagnosed with Lupus though ( painful joints tend to be worse at this time if the month) and wonder if there might be a connection but I think might be more likely to have been just the water retention. Hoping this might help others and your Granddaughter although a year later hopefully she is feeling better about it now.
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I am 47 and from the UK. I have had knee pain to some extent or another on the first day of every period which lasted during it then promptly went as soon as my period ended. Sometimes it was excruciating. I don't take medicines or contraceptives (I have had two children) and know my own body so put it down to cycle related and lots of knee use riding my horse as a child/teenager. When I did visit the doc none of them knew the answer which was very frustrating and slightly scary that they did not even know. It wasn't until I saw a piece by a professor one day that linked cycles with knee pain, (wish I had saved the article) that cemented my knowledge. I am on here today because you guessed it I got my period and excruciating knee pain and I just thought I would dig around the internet again and hey presto here you all are. The knee pain club. Anyway enjoy this knee pain you young ones because my clockwork periods just started to go haywire which signifies the start of the peri menopause and only last week I could not think of the word for shed! Baby brain becomes menopause brain. I don't know what's worse not being able to speak or not being able to walk.
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I've been having this problem recently and thought I was crazy. I have found taking midol or even generic menstrual relief meds help a lot! I was taking 4 advil and it doesn't work as well
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magnesium helps with the pain but it doesn't fully go away but I never remember to take it 3 times a day like the bottle says. i usually take it in the morning and before bed but it does make the pain less
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I have it too. It might have something to do with the hormone balance in your body, like a drop in the progesterone. Because I know in response to the cycle arriving, progesterone drops, and I used to get bad pain at inner thigh area at the end f my period because of this. But now it is at the beginning, and at the knee. But it feels similar to cramps, and since it is at period time, it is definitely a hormone level issue.
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