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Truth about Total Knee Replacements
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I'm sorry to hear that! We all have individual reactions to our pain and to our improvements with one or the other modalities. I just like this 'forum' because I learn and sometimes benefit from one person, and sometimes not...AND my friends who've had TKR gave me a heck of a time about cancelling my TKR, and I finally said, 'I don't have pain anymore! Would you do it if your pain stopped?' That pretty much stopped them from making me feel guilty! BUT I am perfectly aware that anything can change in a heartbeat...at 70 years old, that statement is true for everything! Good luck to you!
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I'm 80 and just canceled my tkr surgery after reading these posts. What knee pain i do have doesn't compare to some of these results. I won't take the chance until there's no doubt.
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Unless you REALLY need it, do not have the procedure. I was competitively sprinting in the Sr. Games 2 years ago. Got 3 Meniscus tears. Repair left me hurting but with Cortisone, I could manage as long as my activity was low impact. It then seemed inevitable that I needed a new knee. Since then I had the TKR, MUA, Arthroscopic Debridement and an Open Debridement, due to excessive scar tissue. Now, I am very limited in my ROM, have endured almost 2 years of pain, rehab and lacking mobility. I would never have had the TKR if I had known. It is NO silver bullet for at least 2-10% of all who have the procedure. My next step is to go to the Mayo Clinic for revision to a hinged replacement. This allows them to remove all tendons, which is where a significant amount of the scarring is. The interacts the place of the tendons. KEEP YOUR ORIGINAL EQUIPMENT, if at all possible because a TKR is a crapshoot.