Armor_of_Inferno

Oh wow! I am the 1000 dislocations guy! I salute you, my partner in pain! Let's start a club!

I want to ask you a billion questions! Let's start with this You said that your bones are shaped weird. My main problem is that the bones in my knee joint are shaped badly. The tibia and femur are supposed to form a grove where your kneecap rests, and that groove is really shallow. So since there's less to hold my kneecap in, a wrong step or something that twists my leg can pop it right out.

Is your knee joint similarly shaped? Or do your knees dislocate because your leg gets twisted?

I'm glad to read that your last surgery seems to have been a success! Congratulations! What kind of procedure was it?

And now that you're on the mend, what sort of stability exercises do you do now?

That's exactly what it is like for me when I dislocate my knees and they don't pop back in automatically. Usually I use the side of my fist though.

I know it looks painful, but I honestly don't think straight when my knee is out of place. The wrongness of having a non-working leg causes a panic akin to being on fire. I stop thinking clearly and do everything I can to get my knee back into place/alleviate the pain.

I laughed so hard at this! Maybe we should meet via Skype instead...

Imagine getting hit in the knee with a baseball bat, along with a grinding on the front then side of your knee (when your kneecap goes around as it slides out of position). If you instantly fall down after that happens, you've had a knee dislocation.

You may not be having dislocations, though. A horrible sharp pain - one that almost feels like something is being crushed inside your knee joint - followed by swelling? That could be the sign of a torn mensicus. I've had those fixed in surgeries too, and fortunately they can be fixed with surgery with a 4 or 6 week recovery time. Not fun to have but it can probably be fixed!