Yeah I've been to an orthopedic doc after an MRI because my knee got real bad. He found micro tears that he said would never heal if I kept lifting (said I should take 6 months off...). However, that seems like a blanket statement and I'm sure most guys have small tears they don't know about either. My pain tolerance is fairly high, but these knees are just baffling to me. I gave them a couple months to heal up by not deadlifting or squatting and have just got back into it with some success but at very light weights. Added in a lot of stiff leg deadlifts as well so I minimize the stress on it and save it for leg days. I never tried an ibu dose that high, did you talk to someone and they recommend that? I was only taking 400mg every night with some voltarin on the knees which seemed to help alleviate it after a week or two. Was your knee a one time flare up when you used that protocol or does it hit you every so often?
