Current medical status: pain in knees. different in each one. in my left knee for the past 2-3 weeks i have felt like it doesn't bend as it used to when i walk. in my right knee, the right side of my knee is numb and i have felt something like an electrical shock sometimes when i get up from lying down or sitting to a standing position.
Current medical treatment: i have gotten a cortisone shot in my left knee(last week) but because of my job, i had to work the next 2 days straight( i am a pharmacist and i stand all day on my feet). i was feeling a slight bit of relief after the shot but that ended when i went into work the next day. my right knee i'm pretty sure is from a neurological problem as i was diagnosed with a pinched nerve in january which pretty much disabled my right arm for a period of about 7 weeks. now i figure there is a pinch in the nerve a little bit lower on my spine that's causing this latest problem in my right knee.(it was also my right arm that i had the problem with}

If you had a pinched spinal nerve, most likely a cortisone shot in the knee wouldn’t help you. You probably had a knee inflammation (gonarthritis) so that the cortisone shot relieved the pain.


Pain in the knee can also occur if there is a pinched nerve in the lumbar-sacral part of the spine which is much lower than the neck spine where a pinched nerve causes pain in the arm.


Pain caused by gonarthrosis and pain caused by a pinched nerve differ between each other.
I believe it is likely that the main cause for your knee osteoarthritis (gonarthrosis) is your excessive body mass (overweight).