jolting electric knee pains

[loulou886]

I am a 27 year old female and I have been having strange but excruciatingly painful electric like jolts in my knee. They come at random several times a day in strange electric pangs that are so painful that i scream sometimes when they happen. However after the episode my knee feels completely normal.  It feels almost like someone is shocking my nerve ending or something. The pain is indescribable. I have no pain anywhere else and I have never felt anything like this up until a couple months ago and just recently I went like 2 weeks with no jolts? They seem to happen most often when i am stitting down. My knee looks completely normal, no swelling or redness and its NOT tender to the touch at all. Do I have MS? I am freaking out.

[dr_simran]

Hello Dear,
Was there any knee injury?You can try the following -
Protect the knee from  trauma.Use a  pad over the kneecap  it helps to control the symptoms of some knee injuries (an example is a form of bursitis sometimes called housemaid's knee) by preventing further repetitive injury to the prepatellar bursae.
Rest reduces the repetitive strain placed on the knee by activity. Icing the knee reduces swelling and can be used for both acute and chronic knee injuries compression can be used to keep the patella aligned and to keep joint mechanics intact. the knee with a knee brace or wrap.
Elevation works with gravity to help fluid that would otherwise accumulate in the knee flow back to the central circulation.
Prop your leg up when you are sitting.

Over-the-counter pain control medications: Commonly used pain relievers such as nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) such as naproxen and ibuprofenalso play a role in the treatment of knee pain.
Also if the pain persists ,you should see an orthopedic physician and go in for a x-ray to rule out any degenerative pathological changes.

Re fer http://www.emedicinehealth.com/knee_pain_overview/page3_em.htm
Best

[bean114]

Did you ever find out what it was?  Your post could have been written by me.

[Malingml]

Hi Loulou (and others),

I'm a 25 year old female and I'm having exactly the same symptoms, except my pains come to many different body parts from the waist down. I have no idea what it is, but I do know that I also have some SI joint pain, and I've heard that it was due to a rotation in my hips. I don't, however, know how the rotation occurred. I've been experiencing the SI shooting, jolting pain since June, (about six months now,) but I believe the  pain in other areas started before then. I don't think that any of my symptoms are due to any sort of muscle tightness, as I believe it is strictly nerve-related. I don't know if this helped at all, but if you get any more information OR ANYONE ELSE HAS ANY, please, please let me know. As you mentioned in your previous post, this is starting to freak me out as well. Good luck!