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Knee ? & Knee Replacement ?
dav1965
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Both of my knees have been hurting about 5 months. Even with pain meds a 4 is about my normal.
My knees hurts about 1 or 1 1/2 inches on the inside of my knee from the center of my knee. If i push in the area the pain goes up a lot.
I am calling my Doctor Monday and get her to set up MRIs for both knees. Where does it hurt when you have to have a knee replacement?
I was getting Cortisone shots but they only last a few days now. So i do not waste my money.
Any ideas except ice? I already do that. Putting icy hot and stuff on it does not work very much either.
Besides a knee replacement what else could it be?
My knees hurts about 1 or 1 1/2 inches on the inside of my knee from the center of my knee. If i push in the area the pain goes up a lot.
I am calling my Doctor Monday and get her to set up MRIs for both knees. Where does it hurt when you have to have a knee replacement?
I was getting Cortisone shots but they only last a few days now. So i do not waste my money.
Any ideas except ice? I already do that. Putting icy hot and stuff on it does not work very much either.
Besides a knee replacement what else could it be?
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Besides a knee replacement what else could it be?
Anything else just kicks the can down the road. Let me tell ya, when it hurts bad enough, you will welcome replacement. If you're still waffling it don't hurt bad enough.
quote:Originally posted by dav1965
Besides a knee replacement what else could it be?
Anything else just kicks the can down the road. Let me tell ya, when it hurts bad enough, you will welcome replacement. If you're still waffling it don't hurt bad enough.
The longer you wait the worse the recovery will be. I had both mine done about 10 years ago and have never fully gotten my range of motion back because calves got so stiff.
New pain med (just got shoulder replaced in December) work wonders.
If you're hurting pills/shots only "kick the can down the road."
Hang on as long as you can. Despite recent advances, ain't nothing like original equipment!
It sure is, when the original equipment is shot.
I had my first knee surgery when I was 16 that resulted from a horse accident when I was 12. Second knee surgery(same knee) three years later after a 4' hop turned out to be a 12' fall.
I've had knee pain most of the 50+ years since that time. Sometimes worse, sometimes not as bad. Grouch Attack had knee surgery about 2 years ago and still can't walk an appreciable distance. I'm not going to gamble less pain against nearly no mobility.
Make SURE you ask around and get the very best doctor.
Have friends that have had knee and hip replacements both. Most say knees harder to get over.
BEST OF LUCK
Can hardly bend knee but mainly her fault.
Yep, you GOTTA do the therapy, and do it like the therapist says. The therapy is about 80% of a successful outcome.
quote: Most say knees harder to get over.Yes, a knee is longer recovery.
Was, Bone grinding on bone. Doc and I looked at MRI and decided to have surgery.
Had total knee replacement surgery on Tuesday. Up walking and doing therapy already.
Going much better than the other one done 4 years ago.
First one was back to 100% in 6-8 months, on that one.
dave
Before replacement her knees hurt so bad they kept her up at night. She had pain like you are describing but hers hurt ALL the TIME.
We did everything we could to put it off because she was not even 50.
Had the Rooster head shots in the knees. Had special braces she wore all day. Had tins machines on at night. She had cortisone shots and her knees drained every 3 months. Finally her Dr said lets do one and then the other, my wife said I want them both done now. He did it because she was young and he thought she would recover fine, and she did.
One thing they will not tell you in the Dr gets more money for doing them one at a time.
New knee on the right leg which was the worse of the two.
Shortly after this surgery the knee started showing signs of infection. I had a staff infected prosthesis with no cure but to remove the implant - kill the infection and then do a re-implant.
I spent 3 months with no knee (nursing home). Then they put in a new prosthesis. Within a few days that was showing sign of infection.
They do not do a third so I am in a wheel chair living the best I can with the infection until I can no longer stand the pain and side effects. Then the leg will be amputated.
My bottom line advice is to make sure you go into that type of fix with your eyes open. Both the doctors who did my implants gave me a 95% chance of a problem free surgery. Research has proven to me that is a lie. Ask questions and also discuss the type of prosthesis and one may be less of a risk than the others. Also recognize that after implant surgery an infected tooth can migrate its infection to the implant.
I hope you can find an alternative to knee replacement, and wish you good luck in finding pain relief .
Edit: It is the metal part of an implant that is the problem. A staff infection forms a bio shield on the metal and antibiotics can not destroy this infection . I know that many folks have replacement knees that do not give a problem. I also know that it more like 20 to 25% have issues of some nature.
All things considered it beats the living hell out of being a crippled old man, which certainly would have been my situation even 50 years ago.