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Pain in knee sometimes

I'm 37 and have sickle cell beta thalessmia, I lift weight 3 times a week and I was wondering what's the pain that I get in my knee? I'm rarely sick and eat healthy.

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Permalink Reply by Ade Dotun on February 2, 2012 at 2:33pm

hey Mike, knee pain is pretty normal so to say for pple with sickle cell, especially with any kind of working out, i get them too even when i dont workout, its part of joint pains, usually just take advil or aleeve to help with it. I would say ease up on the amount of weights maybe and if it persist, see your doctor about it.

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Permalink Reply by mike smith on February 2, 2012 at 4:48pm

Thanks, do you think maybe my iron levels are high which has is why this is happening? Also, since kle cell bets thalessmia, is it a mils trait or the full sickle cell? I'm very healthy for my and never had a blood transfusion so it's weird to have this pain on my knee now at 37.

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Permalink Reply by Ade Dotun on February 2, 2012 at 5:08pm

it could be iron, but you wont know til u get tested for it. its not really either SCD or the trait, but u could call it a trait since it usually doesn't cause problems depending if u have thalessmia minor or major, although u can still become quite anemic from it. I would recommend u see a hematologist and perhaps read up on this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalassemia

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