@genie15 This is an excellent answer that essentially say "no doctor will look at everything or knows everything". Sadly, almost pathetically, I've found that doctors who are in business to do surgery will do surgery. It's how they make a living. Jaded? Really? What other professions act differently? I'm going on 7 months of having one knee and surrounding areas continuously swollen (1.5-2" larger in circumfernce) with absolutely no medical professional able to tell me why other than the area was traumatized by the surgery AND "be patient". 12+ months is what I'm told that it might take. In English: "we don't have a clue what the problem is and have no idea how long it will remain like that." Had my Mayo orthopaedic surgeon even remotely mentioned this could be an outcome, I would have never had this surgery...and certainly looked for other opinions. Hang in there!