Should I Fight the Swell?

In My Humble Opinion
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Knee injury question - I don’t need medical advice, I know you are not a doctor, etc., etc.

I hurt my knee somehow two nights ago, and last night it started collapsing on me. No pain otherwise, just when it decides to suddenly not support me. I injured my other knee a year or so ago, and so I wrapped it in my Trusty Knee Brace and am now walking like I have a peg leg.

I looked at it before my shower this morning, and there is some limited swelling above the knee cap. Should I take some naproxen to bring the swelling down?

I usually take no medication of any kind, since I have the personal theory that, generally, your body know what to do. So if I have a cold with a small fever, I take nothing, figuring - burn, baby, burn.

What’s the basic purpose of swelling? Should I just monitor it for now, or fight against eons of evolution?

Thanks!

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Have you tried ice?

And if it doesn’t settle down in the next few days, I’d think about getting it looked at if I were you (well, I’d probably see about getting it looked at sooner, but I have a weird right knee).

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ICE is better. :smiley:

I - Ice, the frozen stuff.
C - Compression.
E - Elevation.

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So is swelling bad, all the way around? I thought that sending blood to an injury led to speedier healing?

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RICE is even better.

R - Rest