Baffling 8 month Grade 2 MCL sprain

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Thanks a lot for that Mark. It's strange how much it can help just having contact with someone who'd going through the same thing. I don't talk about it to anyone really as I don't think they can really understand and I don't want to be complaining when I can still function well enough day to day but it does have such a big effect on my life. I think the lack of improvement is the hardest thing because it just means I'm ALWAYS worrying about what's going to happen, and if I wake up in a morning and it feels worse or the same as the day before I'm in such a foul mood pretty much all day.

Had a physio appointment this afternoon anyway where he tried some lazer thing on it which was new to me, but which I'm not holding out much hope for, so he's going to give me 3 more goes at that before then giving me my chance to convince a consultant to have a look inside, which might be difficult as nothing turned up on the MRI.

I've got 2 more weeks till my next appointment though now so till then I'm going to not do any running or anything whatsoever, stop doing the wall sits as they seemed to be giving me discomfort and hope with everything I've got that at some point I get the same small but day by day improvement I was getting a couple of weeks ago and then that it keeps on improving without the running etc to make it worse. I'll still be doing cycling every day and stretches for quads, hamstrings, calves and hip flexors, but if anyone else has any ideas whatsoever I'll listen to anything.