MCL strain or "Curse you Doug B!" (Read 435 times)

Doug told me I'd be posting an injury report this week... aargh. Manifest injury - I was destined for it, I suppose. I was about a mile from home on a six-miler when a car played red light/green light with me. When I stopped short (off the edge of a sidewalk no less) My leg twisted and my knee buckled. Long story short, I felt a pretty tough twinge to the inner side of my knee. It went away while I was running straight, but then when I got home, just about anything that I did that twisted the knee gave me the "twinge." I'm pretty sure I have an mcl sprain. I don't think it's a full tear because I don't have much swelling. I'm wondering if anybody else has had this and about how long it takes to recover. PT advice would be good too. I know R.I.C.E. I've bought a compression sleeve for the knee. Which reminds me. How long should I wear the sleeve? All the time? I wore it to work today, took it off at lunch, and started feeling nauseated and faint. I think it was a blood flow thing. I put the sleeve back on and after a little while I started to feel normal. Am I wearing it too much? Do I ice it over the compression bandage, or take off the bandage to ice? Finally, anybody read any good books? I know I'm not going to be running for a while.