I've been having pain in the roundish bone at the top of my right shin...you'll feel what I'm talking about if you just run your finger up your shin bone. I was squatting heavy (for me) a week and a half ago and the last rep was extremely ugly..I was squatting high bar a2g and I don't know exactly what happened, but that bone was in a lot of pain about 5 minutes after my set. It got better over the next 4 days and I thought it would completely go away but the pain level has basically been the same for the past 5. It feels kind of like an internal bruise or something. Almost like someone hit me with something hard directly on that bone

doctor.

Does it hurt to the touch? Does it hurt to jump just on that one leg?

hurts if I press on the top of the bone. Doesn't hurt when I jump on just that leg, however it hurts when I do air squats.

Squatted light 205 x 2 x 5 this past monday planning on trying 5 x 5. HORRIBLE idea. I re-aggravated whatever is wrong with that part of my shin and was in considerable pain during the 2nd set and after I was finished. Saw my doctor the next day. She scheduled me for an x-ray which I'm currently waiting for the results on and prescribed me anti-inflammatory pills. I have been taking the pills since tuesday as prescribed twice per day but the pain is not going away. Wtf do I do. It's depressing seeing my weight and strength go down and there is nothing I can do about it cause I can't squat or deadlift!

first stop lifting...rest and ice for the next week ... be sure its completely healed then lift light until its strong enough to do your normal routine...patience an injury like this could be serious if not taken care of

^ I originally took a week and a half off from all lifting and after that time it still hurt when I just squatted the bar or did air squats. I did just start icing yesterday tho.

lol a week and a half.

Went to a sports md doctor yesterday he told me I should not squat all the way down, he then demonstrated 1/8th squats and told me that is what I should do unless I'm a bodybuilder or a skier, otherwise there is no reason for me to go parallel or lower lolol. He said it was just inflammation and told me to buy voltaren and keep icing...

I think I finally found out what exactly the bone is tho. After watching a knee anatomy vid I'm pretty darn sure it is the tibial tubercle. If I'm not mistaken this means that I have osgood-schlatter? I'm reading that the pain may just resolve itself after a few months but can also take up to 2 years to go away?! I want to squat and deadlift so bad...I hope this is not the case. Anyone with Osgood's-Schlatter want to chime in here?

lol bodybuilder or skier

Ice and voltaren worked very well for me with a recent foot tendinitis injury.

^ how many times a day were you icing (and for how long) and applying voltaren? How long were you out for before you could hit the gym again?

I was icing 2x/day and religiously using the voltaren 4x/day. It's hard to give an exact time frame, and my injury was completely different than yours, but I was relatively healthy ~2 weeks after starting the voltaren, but my overall injury lasted to varying degrees about 6-8 weeks. Not sure how much was natural healing versus anything else, but I found voltaren to be a great non-steroidal.

Update: haven't squatted in 2 months, still have pain. Haven't been to the gym in the past month besides the occasional upper body and back workout. I've gone from 190 to 170. I feel like what's the point of eating a lot and drinking a lot of milk when I can't squat or even train legs at all. This is very depressing... I went to another sports medicine doctor, just recommended the usual ice and anti-inflammatory cream. Ice and Voltaren has done nothing for me, the pain keeps coming back. He recommended I try squatting with a "cho-pat" strap..anyone have any experience training with something like this, or a levy patellar strap?

Voltaren blows for that, if you have what I think you have.

Sounds like jumper's knee. I had problems with it for a long time, and tried all that crap. Straps, ice, voltaren... Nothing worked. I even went on a crazy diet to eliminate all sat fats, and ate only fish and veggies. Stupid me.

Except stretching my quads fixed it totally. At least four times per day for a month, 5 minutes per session.

Try that. I would bet money it helps, if not outright solves the problem.

I've been doing the quad stretches that I think you're referring to and they've done nothing. I highly doubt it's jumper's knee...I mean my ultrasound came back and it showed signs of patella tendinitis on both knees, but my doctor said if i had this at any point in the past it would show up in the ultra sound..and i haven't had pain in my patella's for a long time. The pain that I'm having the issue with is on and only on the tibial tuberosity (specifically the upper half) on my right knee..this is a very small area.

do you walk slightly duck footed?

yeah only my right foot though, it's partially flat footed.

if you walk like that, your femur is constantly externally rotated . this irritates the lateral gastrocnemius(outside calf, my calf was so tight on the outside of my shin just under my knee that it felt like bone) bicep femoris(big thick rope-like tendon behind the outside of your knee, tfl and maybe piriformis.

foam roll and stretch the s**t out of these muscles and stop walking like that, i used to as well, i just stopped one day and did these stretches and everything went away within 2 weeks. i used to get shooting pains that felt like my shinbone just under the knee was going to snap and rip through my skin

cant guarantee that's what your problem is, but this is pretty common with people who have externally rotated femurs.