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Scar tissue after knee replacement

Joint Replacements | Last Active: Apr 22 9:03am | Replies (1521)

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@doodles418

Get a second opinion on your own, not your surgeons suggestion. Go out of the group or area. Ask for new Xrays and the possibility of the implants being the wrong size, the alignment off and your knee caps replaced poorly. Follow @babette story. This really does happen to patients

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I waited a year and a half in pain and told i had to try harder to break scar tissue and had a manipulation. Sought another opinion and found after revision that i had the wrong fit plus alignment. I am almost a year post surgery and while my range of motion is compromised because of the first surgery, i am no longer in pain. I found it difficult to find someone who would see me but by the grace of god, the doctor who agreed to see me did revisions all the time. You deserve and should not give up on another opinion.

@lynnwade54 I agree with @doodles418 get a second opinion from an excellent surgeon not associated with the same medical facility. I firmly believe that success is tied to the excellence of the surgeon, but in the case of scar tissue I don’t know if that can be avoided. It sounds as if it’s just something that is part of a person’s physiology. I have had two TKRs but never had that problem.
If it is definitely scar tissue I can understand your reluctance to have a second TKR but if something else, every TKR is different. I have heard that even when a person has both knees done at the same time, same doctor, there are often differences.
JK

Yes you are right, the new surgeon is out of the area in another town and county. I will keep you informed