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Joint Replacements | Last Active: Sep 27 2:53pm | Replies (41)
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There are many superb hip & knee surgeons. Mine, Jimmy chow, was the developer of the Superpath system for hip replacements and has done thousands of hips and knees.
Look for someone who meets my two requirements as I outlined. While there are many superb hip & knee surgeons, there are also many who are essentially painting by the numbers.
I mentioned that I am impatiently waiting for my knee replacement operation. The reason is that my surgeon is busy. It isn't one of my two requirements but I wouldn't want to go to a doctor who isn't busy. Alas.
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Steveinarizona,
Sounds as though you did well with your hip.
I'm not surprised you could avoid oxycodone, but I am surprised you were able to call your surgeon twice the week after surgery to discontinue oxycodone and later Celebrex (celecoxib), given how busy surgeons are. Messages for me are via electronic health record messages, unless emergent.
Also surprised a surgeon would stop the NSAID (celecoxib in this case), in the first week, given the usual surgical swelling, pain, and concern for heterotrophic ossification -
But hard to know specific confounding factors such as cardiovascular risk and other medications used such as prednisone.
Good luck with the knee replacement!