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For the past year, I have occasionally been woken up in the middle of the night with severe knee pain. It happened again last night. It's inside the knee on the inside of leg, in the general vicinity of where I tore my MCL all those years ago. It hurt so bad I couldn't sleep for an hour, but when I wake up, the pain is gone. I popped two aspirin when I woke up. This is a real mystery to me.
 
Donut62 said:
For the past year, I have occasionally been woken up in the middle of the night with severe knee pain. It happened again last night. It's inside the knee on the inside of leg, in the general vicinity of where I tore my MCL all those years ago. It hurt so bad I couldn't sleep for an hour, but when I wake up, the pain is gone. I popped two aspirin when I woke up. This is a real mystery to me.
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How often does it happen?

Edit: Do you take an anti-inflammatory after squat, like Advil?
 
This is the first time it happened in the past two or three months, IIRC. I don't think I am contorting into some weird position with my legs, but I do flop around a lot when I am sleeping and that's the only thing I can think of. If I sit Indian-style for a long period I can replicate the pain but not anywhere close to the same degree.
 
Donut62 said:
This is the first time it happened in the past two or three months, IIRC. I don't think I am contorting into some weird position with my legs, but I do flop around a lot when I am sleeping and that's the only thing I can think of. If I sit Indian-style for a long period I can replicate the pain but not anywhere close to the same degree.
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I just edited above - do you get any swelling in your knee after squat?
 
No, I never take anti-inflammatories, and if I get any kind of aches from squatting it's always in my lower back or SI joint (usually when I don't warm up long enough and stretch the hip flexors out). Last night I felt great after lifting, and even today I have almost no soreness.
 
Donut62 said:
No, I never take anti-inflammatories, and if I get any kind of aches from squatting it's always in my lower back or SI joint (usually when I don't warm up long enough and stretch the hip flexors out). Last night I felt great after lifting, and even today I have almost no soreness.
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I've got nothing.
 
When I used to play basketball at night a lot I would get this weird feeling in my knees when I got in bed. Like I would play basketball for like a couple hours late at night till like 10 then eat and go to bed. My knees would feel fine at first but then they started to feel really stiff. I'm the kind of person that takes a while to fall asleep. It takes me about 2 hours once I get in bed to fall asleep. Are you the kind of person that falls asleep right away? It might be something similar. I get the same knee pain every now and then. It seems that whenever I follow a squatting session with long periods of non movement I will get the knee pain in night in bed. It's gone by morning of course. I've never had any injuries with my knee before either.
 
7/15/08 - Tuesday - Recovery

Treadmill: 30min 4mph @4%

I'm pretty positive my knee problems were a case of displaced pain. I dug around around on a piece of pipe after the gym and found a dreadfully painful trigger point a few inches up from my knee in the vastus medialus. It hurt like a bastard, but my entire leg feels like something "broke loose" and feels great right now.
 
Good job, glad to hear that.

Did it feel like taking a huge dump, but out of your knee?
 
Some people are good at squatting and deadlifting, others are good at walking on the treadmill.
 
Donut62 said:
Can you even move those stubby little legs 4mph?
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Cardio has never been my forte. I was always one of the fastest guys on my soccer team when I was younger, but my endurance was always in the bottom half. Now I have the added challenge of thighs that are big enough to rub together every step I take. Even with compression shorts, if I walk or run long enough, there will be some chafing.
 
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