# Damn! My knee hurts!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-my-knee-hurts/330987>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [November 14, 2005, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-my-knee-hurts/330987 "2005-11-14T13:10:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\
**Post date:** [November 14, 2005, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-my-knee-hurts/330987/1 "2005-11-14T13:10:03Z")

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Went to bed last night at a reasonable hour after a pretty normal Sunday. Let me see, what did I do – hung out on the computer, worked on my current needlepoint project, vacuumed and straightened up the first floor, did some laundry, watched a friend as he hooked up my new DVD player for me, went over to his house to pick up something he’d forgotten to bring, played with his dog for a while, swung by the grocery store on my way home, took a nap, fixed supper and hung out with the friend who came over for supper, watched _60 minutes_ and part of the Penn and Teller special, took out the trash, took a shower, read for a while, went to sleep.

And woke up in the middle of the night with my knee hurting like a sonofabitch. It feels like I banged it – hard – on something. not like a pulled muscle. And you’d think I’d have noticed banging it that hard on something, if I did, which I’m not sure how I could have given the uneventfulness of my day.

Damn, it really hurts: I had to come down the stairs one at a time, and I’m definitely limping. And it’s especially annoying since I don’t know how I did it.

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**Author:** ![Barrels](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b5a626/32.png) [@Barrels](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barrels)\
**Post date:** [November 14, 2005, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-my-knee-hurts/330987/2 "2005-11-14T15:51:24Z")

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I am with you on the knee pain. But I know how I did it, drunk in a bar of course. Not that me knee randomly dislocating had anything to do with me being drunk but it made the ER more interesting! As of today I am blaming Mandy my drinking partner. She was no where arounf when my knee gave but still, I am blaming har, cause she isn’t here to defend herself!

Anywho, if your knee is really sore, you might have had a brush with a knee dislocation or subluxing (sp?) pattela. If that’s the case, it sucks but you really only have to worry when it won’t go back in on its own ☹

Barrels