Knee pain while trying to sleep

Beatrix

Just thought I'd do a little update:

After taking 8 Co-Codamol yesterday 8/500 (6 hours apart), 2 just before going to sleep, I woke up 4 hours later to find it wasn't pain that woke me up. I even turned over and the dreaded sharp pains in my left knee didn't come. I can't tell you how much relief I felt to have one night with very little discomfort. I went down stairs to fill up my hot water bottle and managed to sleep another 3 hours. So for now, Co-Codamol and my hot water bottle helped me get a good nights sleep.

Before going to sleep I like to read for an hour so I thought my left knee could do with being supported rather than just be flat/straight on the bed so I grabbed my Unicorn lol (large soft toy that my youngest daughter had bought me years ago) and placed it under my knee and the tension in my knee was so much better while I was reading.

Fingers crossed I have another good night or at least more good nights than bad

Jackie x

hileena111

Hi Beatrix
Glad your gradually finding out what works for
It does make such a difference,
You mentioned in the other thread about looking up wheat bags.
The difference I find in them and a water bottle is they never go stone cold
in the middle of the night....if you put your foot down and touch it you dont jump with the freezing cold. They are cold but not the same.
Love
Hileena

Beatrix

Thanks for letting me know Hileena My hot water bottle has like a furry cover so even when the water has cooled its not very cold on my skin but then winter hasn't yet set in lol Jackie x

dreamdaisy

My knees only flattened when they were injected with steroids - and even then only for three or so days. The rest of the time they are always resting on a cushion or a pillow - they just won't/don't do flat. I find the same when standing in the shower or a queue - slightly bend them as that eases the strain. DD

Beatrix

Hi DD, I thought that because I can read while sitting up in bed with both legs straight, although sometimes my right foot hangs over the side of the bed. My left can't do that as its a double bed so would otherwise have to keep changing sides. Having support under the worse knee really helped and felt that its less pressure on the knee.

Sorry you can't keep your legs straight DD. When my left knee was extra painful I also found it hard to put equal weight on both knee's while standing as it causes more pain doesn't it. Jackie x

dreamdaisy

They have been propped by pillows etc for years, it matters not. I began using a cushion in 1998, I graduated to a pillow for sleeping in 2002, after the first synovectomy. They only ever laid flat after the steroiding and feeling the sheet on the back of my knees was weird! Flat knees are a thing of the past. As is so much else! DD