Exercise and knee arthritis

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I am 45 and have horrible knee arthritis. Apparently I am too young to have knee replacements but I am pretty sure that next time I see my specialist he will be taking some more drastic action. Or at least I hope so.

Anyway in the interim i want to do some more exercise. I can get on an exercise bike but it is killing me for the boredom. Has anyone tried running on a treadmill with knee arthritis?

I love to run. Haven't been for a run for 3 years or so as I have avoided it in case it makes the pain worse. My muscles are wasting away! I used to get such a kick from the endorphins

DH is 48 and has really bad knee osteo arthritis (first knee surgery at 19, was offered a knee replacement at 40, still holding out now as he has too much bone damage to have more than one replacement ). He cycles on the road, and has managed to massively stabilise his knee from collapsing which it did before he started cycling. A fitted bike, and shoes that clip in means your knees will track properly, and his surgeon recommends it. In the winter we have a turbo which connects to Zwift so you are in a virtual world which makes it way more interesting.
He does run despite the pain (though had a rather catastrophic detachment of an entire cartilage in August which has put paid to that until it is nailed back on) on the basis that it couldn't make things any worse

Thank you. Have just been reading the thread about peloton and may order one. DH uses zwift but I'm Not sure about the virtual world thing. Quite like the idea of live instructors though. We have a treadmill but our turbo trainer is just a basic one so it looks like I'd need to invest in the peloton bike or a fancy turbo trainer

Could you try jogging in place on a rebounder instead? I have one and love it. Its possibly worth some Google research as it's supposedly good for people with arthritis - its much lower impact than running on a road or hard surface.