Friday, August 31, 2012

More on the Knee Saga

So, Murphy's law, as soon as I made a doctor's appointment to get my knee looked at it started feeling better. I wasn't going to get it looked at at first, but my MIL made a good point. I've already reached my insurance deductible for the year because of Lexi, so anything I would have done to it (tests, x-rays, etc) would be covered. It was still hurting a week and a half after I initially hurt it, so I figured I might as well call.

I got up bright and early this morning for my 7:00am app and got checked out. They took an x-ray and my bones looked fine. The doctor squeezed my knee a few times and that was that. He wants me to have an MRI to see if any of the cartilage is torn. Other than that I really didn't get an answer as to what could have happened.

I don't know how I feel about all of these tests. I saw a different sports medicine doctor back in HS when I was running XC for my other knee, and it was a very different experiance. I told him where and when it hurt and he was able to feel my knee and tell me exactly what was wrong. No fancy tests required. I guess I feel like this new doctor is pulling out the "big guns" prematurely. He has a very nice office. It reminded me of a resteront or hotel lounge. How much do you want to bet he runs a lot of unnessisarey tests in order to pay for his fancy office? The more I think about it the more I'm annoyed. Since my knee is feeling relitively normal now, I feel like if I do get this MRI done it won't show anything anyways. I've been reading online about getting one done while BFing and there's conflicting information. Some places say if you get an MRI or CT you should pump and dump for anywhere from 12-48 hours. That would really put a wrench in things! Other places say it's not nesisary and that you can BF normaly. I guess the concern is if you have to take a contrast dye injection it contains iodine and can get into your BM and then baby ingests it. I don't know if I'm comfortable with that. I guess if it was for something really inportaint it would be one thing, but since it's for something that's practically a non issue... I don't know

Lots of Love,

KJsbabe

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