I've been suspecting that the PVNS is slowly creeping it's way back into my right knee.
Initially after my surgery on June 12 my recovery seemed to be going great. I was able to walk stairs again and do many activities I had to suspend because the tumors were preventing me from even bending my knee previous to the surgery. Ok, so I didn't stick to the diet. It's just too difficult when you have children in the house that demand food that is not on the paleo diet. So my experiment is not in effect as I initially wanted it to be.
Anyways, after the 3 weeks, maybe 4, I was doing some exercises where you stand against a wall and then slide down and back up. I was feeling really good about my recovery and went to almost 20 reps. My doctor said 10 at a time. I got to 18 and felt like the ligament in my knee tightened up so bad it took weeks to get the flexibility back.
Last month I started hot yoga. I still can't bend my knee to where I can do all of the positions but enough were I can participate. I still stand by my concept that exercise every day helps keep the knee in recovery and maintains the flexibility.
About a week and a half ago I felt something strange in my knee. As though I could literally feel something growing in there. I've been checking my knees for anything that feels foreign moving around in there. I can say that I am fairly certain that I do feel a very small mass in the place where my biggest tumor was located. But I'm sure I'm mostly just paranoid.
It will take much more time before I will know for certain that PVNS really is on its way back to making me miserable. I would like to think it was completely removed during surgery. Statistically that is highly unlikely. The last statistics that I saw out of 65 people with PVNS in their right knee, only 4 claimed to be free of PVNS after surgery.
So at this time I think I need to get on the acupuncture idea. I'm a little concerned about the cost but I can at least commit to once a month I think.
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