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Hi I am having a revision surgery one of the things my doctor said was if they find a deep infection when they go in I might come out with a fused knee depending on bone loss what are the pros and cons of a fused knee thank you

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I also had a revision of my left knee in 2003. Everything went great. The reason why they want to fuse it now is I need another knee that would be the third one and they said there isn’t enough bone there to create or put in another knee so we can try to put a knee in, but it might not work so the next thing to do is to fuse it or amputate it. What an option so I haven’t done anything yet. I’m still thinking about it. My primary doctor said if you don’t have any pain, why have surgery but the doctor said I have a lot of bone loss and it might break , they’re worried about breakage . I don’t know what to do. I also have neuropathy in feet and legs and hands. I don’t feel much pain so we’ll see. They said if it’s really bad when they get in there, they confuse it sounds like blue is having a hard time getting around with her fuse knee and that’s what I was thinking about, how to get around please let me know if you have anything to say about fusion thank you