knee pain when kneeling

[spikeyhead]

I'm getting an odd pain when kneeling on a hard surface that I never used to get, but only on my right knee.

Any thoughts on what it causing this and how I might cure it?

[Colonel Cupcake]

What type of pain?

As if you are kneeling on a small stone? As though your kneecap is bruised? Does it happen every time you kneel?

[spikeyhead]

It happens almost every time I kneel on the lower part of my right kneecap, I get a feeling a bit like a strong painful electric shock on the outer part of my knee.

[Colonel Cupcake]

If you are describing the pain as electric, that may suggest nerve problems.

I have a herniated disc and when it was bad, it felt like 240v down both my legs. Two years later, it's down to 6v.

Perhaps it's time to visit your GP.

[m3jappa]

Is it like kneeling on a drawing pin?

I had exactly that in one knee, came out of nowhere. Took seemingly ages to go away.

It was housemaids knee apparently. Something all the hard men get

[JungTheForeman]

I had exactly the same earlier this year, took about 6 weeks to clear up!

Kneeling on the driveway while reattaching my exhaust heat shield (and then checking in over the a couple of days) was the cause!

[carinatauk]

Bursitis?

[Shuff4]

Out of no where I had bursitis, ended up with swelling below the knee cap off to one side.

Slight discomfort when walking but kneeling was unbearable.

Slowly getting back to normal.

[AlexC1981]

I had pain in one knee after kneeling doing some plumbing in the airing cupboard for a few hours. Just brushing the knee gently on the bed the wrong way was quite painful. It took weeks to go away and for something approaching a year afterwards I felt like I had a small patch of numbness. I own knee pads now.

[gareth h]

m3jappa said:

Is it like kneeling on a drawing pin?

I had exactly that in one knee, came out of nowhere. Took seemingly ages to go away.

It was housemaids knee apparently. Something all the hard men get

I used to get this from time to time, always assumed it was some debris floating around that found it’s way to the kneecap

[dudleybloke]

Kneel on something soft.
Saves a lot of pain in the long run.