[pct-l] knee injured, a little advice?

[rob gratz]

here is my point, we need to give realistic answers.i think everyone
knows if your hurt you should go to a doctor.unfourtunetly thats
unrealistic for many of us. there is no access .even if you were to
spend all your hiking money on a doctor it would`nt be enough,it would
barely cover the xrays.no matter what you hear on fox news you can`t
just walk into any hospital and get treatment,it dos`nt happen.
i live with cronic pain.when i got layed off so did my insurance,  so
i follow these threads for helpfull hints. when someone says"just go
to your orthepedic surgion"it just comes off as clueless.a better
answer would be where and how to find low cost medical treatment.i
don`t want to flame anyone, just educate .i don`t think anyone in this
thread is trying to be anything but helpfull,but maybe some of you
don`t know how little medical care you get if you don`t have
insurance.(none)

On 1/26/12, Eric Lee <saintgimp at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Rob wrote:
>>
> again,if someone is asking medical advice on an internet forum it probally
> means you have no access to medical care.
>>
>
> Well, yes, that may be true, but since very few of us are medical
> professionals, asking for medical advice about an apparently serious injury
> on an internet forum is probably going to result in either "see a doctor" or
> "stay off of it and take some Vicodan."  Anything else we could say is
> likely to be misleading or flat out wrong.
>
> It sounds like Clay is planning a thru-hike this year so he's probably got
> some money saved up.  My best advice is to take some of that money and go
> see a doctor.  He's not going to be hiking anywhere in the condition he's
> in.
>
> If I were to hazard a wild guess, I'd suggest that Clay do some web searches
> on "torn meniscus".  It's conceivable that he tore one or more of the
> menisci, and recovered from the initial trauma, but the torn flap or
> detached piece has since gotten lodged somewhere where it's not supposed to
> be.  Or it could be something completely different, with different treatment
> requirements.  The problem with guessing is that we can easily guess wrong.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meniscus_Tears
>
> Eric
>
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