On Monday I played soccer for 2 hours with no problems. Tuesday night I didn't play soccer, but I played in the fraternity basketball game. Yesterday (Wednesday) night, I was playing soccer and started to feel a pain randomly. I don't remember anything specifically happening; I just remember running around not really being active on the ball. After winning another pick-up game I paused to bend my knees and noticed a lot of pain. I continued playing, and after we won another game I did the same thing. The second time i noticed a huge lump forming every time i bent down. I thought it was a bone, and I thought i may have fractured something, or maybe that bone just always sticks out and I've never noticed it. I continued playing and I made a run in to the box. All of a sudden, I felt a sharp pain and without hesitation, I immediately limped off the field. I pressed in on the lump, and it wasn't a bone. It was like a squishy button on my knee. I was with a few of my fraternity brothers, and one said it was just a build up of fluid in my knee.
The pain got worse and worse throughout the night. Eventually the pain became so bad that I could not move it at all. If my knee bent in the slightest, the pain was unbearable. I google'd "fluid in the knee" and I got a lot of hits with "water on the knee." I began researching water on the knee and I matched all the symptoms. I iced and elevated for 3 hours, but the pain never stopped. Before I went to bed, my neighbor across the hall was in my room and was shocked when he looked at my knee. I looked down and saw that my injured knee was easily twice the size as the other. Today the pain has not gone down any, and I am going to the health center to get it checked out. I have two championship soccer games this Sunday, and I am worried I may not be able to make them. Not cool.
