I've had a total of 5 knee surgeries, with the last being what I thought was going to be a total replacement in November of '18. When I woke up after the surgery, the first thing my wife said to me was "they only did a partial replacement", which shocked and then angered me. I'd already had 3 other operations on my left knee, so I wanted to hear the doctors reasons for only doing a partial.
He told me that the interior portion of my knee looked better than the posterior did, so he decided that a partial was good enough. That was 7 years ago, and I'm still having problems with my left knee, as well as my right. Pain, swelling, weakness, tightness, all of the usual osteoarthritis issues, even on the "new" side of my left knee.
The surgeon who did the partial has since retired(again), and as of right now, my right knee is a bigger issue than my left. My new(and old) Orthopedist has looked at it and told me that I'm on my way to a total replacement, if I lose 30 pounds first. How are you supposed to be able to lose weight in any short amount of time when you can barely walk for more than 15-20 minutes at a time?
I'm beginning to think that I might be done with what our insurance company calls "specialist" doctors, and just live the way I am and deal with the pain for the remaining years that I have left to live. I've been dealing with this crap for over 10 years now, and I genuinely don't know if I have another 10 years left in me. My dad died when he was 73, and our mom was almost 77 when she died. Our older sister was barely 64 when she died almost 5 years ago. I'm 66, and have 2 younger sisters, both in their late 50's.
I'm just tired of everything, and every day it's exactly the same thing.