Puffy Knees. Squad Or Anyone, Please

[Marijn]

I knelt down for a short while yesterday and when I got up my knees felt strangely puffy, and where the skin on my knees had been pushed upwards while I knelt, it remained stuck upwards and folded. They looked puffy and it took a while for them to look back to normal. Also, the other day I tried to climb a tree; I had to push my shin against the tree while I pulled myself up onto a branch. When I looked at the point of pressure on my shin, there was a swelling the size of half a hen's egg there, and it took about half an hour to go down again. Any ideas, anyone? Thank you

[grasscarp]

http://www.kneepainrunning.net/practical-guide-on-how-to-treat-a-swollen-knee/
Just something for you to read while waiting for advice
Why are you climbing trees?

[Sqad]

A pre-patella bursa...bag of fluid behind the knee, to lubricate partially, the knee joint.

No big deal unless it becomes red and painful to touch.

No treatment needed.

[Marijn]

Thank you both. It only happens on pressure, so I will not kneel down or climb trees any more. Grasscarp, I tried to climb the tree because someone twenty years younger than me said that I could, but I couldn't go any further after climbing on the first branch - I was very disappointed.

[grasscarp]

you look like you should be able to climb trees!

[Marijn]

That's what I thought. And I'm not going to do head-over-heels again either :-)