To ask you what have I done to my knee?

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I was sat on the sofa on Boxing Day and DS launched a flying jump and landed on me. I have hypermobile joints and so my knee bent to far the other way. My legs were straight out iyswim. So my knee has been really sore since. I’ve tried using KT tape to support it but it’s not really helped. I’m getting pain in the kneecap itself and behind the knee, plus hamstring.

Can anyone tell me what I have pulled/strained so that I can get the right style of support for it? TIA

Could be the cruciate ligaments. Best to get yourself to a physio who does hands on treatments as well as expertise rehab. Or ty a sports / remedial massage therapist as they are more hands on and can also advise on exercises for rehab.

Yy to the cruciates, get to a physio asap. I did mine and without the physio it'd have been awful.

Oh no! I was hoping for something easy and strap up able. I hurt my foot about 18 months ago and it turned out to be the bursa, I still have bursitis and loads of pain now. I hate going to my GP about this kind of stuff!

But if you go sooner rather than later you will get back to normal much quicker and without any compensation from other muscles etc... especially if you are hypermobile (I am too and it’s a pain- literally!!)

Yes, will do. I wish I was able to self refer for physio. Would save a lot of bother. Thanks everyone.

Daily if you still have bursitis ask about having a steroid injection, yes it hurts like hell for a few seconds and then the anaesthesia takes over while the steroid takes over. I went from struggling to walk to dancing the night away within days.

Oh wow! I have an appointment with the pain clinic coming up so will chat to them about that too. Thanks.

Yabvu Op! I can't tell you, you need to see a professional!

Obviously you know that though (took me ages to log in). My only advice is to get to a GP or health professional asap, you can't afford to mess around with knees.

Go to see someone. If it's acl (cruciate ligaments) knee swells up like a football within first hour and it's so painful (am physio and have ruptured acl in past and thought acl rupture more painful than delivering breech baby vaginally...). It's more likely to be hyperextension so joint has gone too far in wrong direction and injured lots of surrounding bits but could be anything so go get it seen to via GP or see physio privately if that's affordable for you.

My local hospital has a drop-in x-ray unit. I'd go there first and then check results with your gp.

. If it's acl (cruciate ligaments) knee swells up like a football within first hour and it's so painful

Yy to the pain, it was agony. Mine was a surgical repair in the end but only like a tennis ball re swelling.

Thanks for all the replies. There is no swelling and the pain is just 1 or 2 above my normal level of pain. Sorry for drip feeding: I’m hypermobile in all joints. I get injuries and painful joints all the time. I really can’t pitch up at a&e every time something hurts a bit more than usual. My baseline for what needs medical attention is somewhat skewed. I’m disabled. I use a wheelchair. Life sucks and my body hurts. All. The. Fucking. Time. I’m not trying to be dismissive, I’m worried enough to post on here. But I’m also used to not getting great care, investigations etc. X-rays are useless because I don’t break anything I always bend. I never get an mri which is needed to diagnose connective tissue damage.

So I’m used to working out what’s wrong each time and taping it up in the appropriate way, with help from YouTube. This is my experience of being disabled and and the treatment available to me on the NHS.

OP that's been my experience of the NHS as well. Great in an emergency, crap (through no fault of the medical staff on the whole - there has been one exception) with everything else. I really feel for the staff working in the NHS, I don't know how they cope with it all.