Omg, I am so sorry for your loss of daily living abilities. What a horrible outcome. Thank you for sharing your experience and best wishes on getting back some quality of life. Keep working at it. A revision may help?

Going on 2 weeks out from my MUA and I’m still feeling the ramifications from the steroid injection that I objected to. Seems my body acquires every possible side effect whenever anything is introduced to it. The heart rate of +120s, sleeplessness, headaches, irritability, depression… Slowly dissipating thank God. The Drs dismiss even discussing these side effects- I was more concerned about the possibility of knee infection or systemic infections as a steroid injection halts immunity for some time. Sources differ everywhere. Seems like the surgeon focuses on mechanics and the rest doesn’t matter perhaps? The injection may be local but has huge systemic effects.

Thinking my knee is finally starting to behave like it should perhaps. It’s bending better, and doesn’t feel so tight. My extension still is not right and that impacts my gait as I still feel pain.
Will continue PT and daily exercises all the time.

Never knew how all consuming this would be. Really don’t think I can do knee # 2 no matter how it wakes me up in pain…

Hoping this MUA was the right decision. Didn’t help that it was a a big trip, lodging, food, travel… the MUA expense was part of the bundled cost “ warranty” of my total knee at least. Hmm. If I hadn’t pushed it, where would I be? The Dr only looked at #s from PT, not how stiff my knee was, or that I hadn’t progressed at all from week 6- week 11 in PT. My knee would revert back as soon as I got home.

It’s a crap shoot. We have to be our own advocates for our health. Stay informed. Read studies. Pursue second opinions…