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"Crepitus". That is, apparently, the technical term for "joints making noise".
It's on the report I got with the knee x-rays I had taken yesterday. Since I regained walking after breaking my leg last year, my left knee has tended to make a crackling sound when I bend my left leg with weight on it (e.g. when I go down stairs). It also is rather hurty. My right knee is silent under bending, and only gets hurty under compensation strain occasionally.
I've had a referral for an x-ray for a while, but what kinda prompted me to actually get around to doing it is a) a doctor's appointment tomorrow and b) the discovery that taking up regular walks to strengthen all my muscles does not, in fact, improve my knee pain, but rather worsens it considerably.
Most of the report on the x-rays is largely incomprehensible to me. With the aid of Google I've determined the following:
- The fracture of my fibula, last year, has healed up with "cortical bony thickening". I'm pretty sure this is normal. My fibula is STRONGER and MORE BADASS now.
- There's a cyst on my patella, apparently? This is somewhere on a spectrum from "no big deal" to "hey good thing we caught this cancer so early".
- There is fluid on Hoffa's fat. Obvs I am looking this up, but I kind of want to just be all WHO IS HOFFA AND WHY IS HE LEAVING HIS FAT IN MY KNEE. MY KNEE IS NOT FOR OTHER PEOPLE'S FAT.
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