Hi guys
Well I saw the OS last night and he asked me about my medical history etc and examined my knees. He couldn't find anything physically wrong with them and didn't think there was anything untoward / injury-wise. He said that from the last MRI scan I had, he couldn't see anything abnormal and that as it was done at an external centre with the results then sent off to be assessed in South Africa (don't ask me why – to save costs probably!), that it was difficult to know whether they were a true and accurate assessment as the radiolgists who work there often have a habit of exaggerating the MRI results (to cover their backs, probably!) He suggested getting another scan to check if there's any abnormality. I'm guessing he's also thinking that the problem has possibly cleared up and that I'm making a song and dance about nothing.... which I'm not, but now I feel a bit embarrassed at having wasted his time, although I guess he prob doesn't care that much as long as he's getting paid!
He said that there are three options:
a) leave it alone and do nothing
b) get another MRI scan and see what happens, then if there's any abnormalities, take it from there. If there's nothing obvioius, he recommended doing some physio to see whether exercise can help
c) doing keyhole surgery to investigate what's wrong... although this would be a last ditch option and only if the MRI scan showed any abnormalities.
So now I feel like I've greatly over exaggerated my symptoms (which haven't been as bad recently, it has to be said) and that my OS thinks it's prob more a case of it's in my head than anything else.
The thing is, why would I make up symptoms? Why would I make up my knee catching and locking and being so painful that I can't straighten it? Admittedly this hasn't been recently but it has happened in the last 6 months so it's definitely been there. The OS said that sometimes teenage girls have problems with their joints that they grow out of, and that some people are just more susceptible to pain than others.
All of this makes me think that I should never have bothered getting it investigated in the first place, and that maybe it all really is a storm in a teacup... I'm feeling quite frustrated that I'm not getting the answer I wanted but also that if I make more of a fuss over nothing, they'll get fed-up and tell me to go away and stop wasting their time.
Sorry for the rant – I just don't know whether any of this will have been worth it in the end.
