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Pain and swelling 8 months after tkr
I had my second tkr 2 years ago. All was well for the first 8 months. Then one day while walking I got terrible pain in my knee and it seized up. Since then my knee can swell up and I have difficulty walking and be in pain. The specialists can't find a reason for it. I want to find a way to live with this. Any ideas?
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What do you mean by "specialists"? I would want to see a really outstanding revision surgeon to have this evaluated; a surgeon who does lots of revisions and has seen lots of knees that went wrong for whatever reason. Is that the kind of specialist you saw?
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A specialist in the UK where I live, is exactly what you described. I have had various tests on my knee and there is nothing wrong with the actual operation.
@kleerekoper I am not a user nor am I knowledgeable about the National Heath Service in the UK. But to the extent you can, keep asking more specialists. Something is clearly wrong and you need someone to evaluate it who will do more than just examine the imaging and sees nothing wrong.
Here in the US there is a fairly new and very active medical practice called sports medicine. Many of the practitioners are not surgeons. If the imaging looks good, maybe your best bet would be to find a specialist in this area who is NOT a surgeon and see what she says. To my layman's eye it certainly looks like something involving nerves, muscles or bones.