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My doctor has given me Orthovist in my knees - twice now. The last time was 2 years. That is a nice long stretch- as it's supposed to last 1-1 1/2 yrs. He says he has patients on it for years - all to avoid replacement knee surgery. I'm in. I also do knee exercises every day.
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Great that the injection(s) worked for you, and others on this forum - envious, too. I had a series of them to delay/avoid TKR, and they gave me perhaps 10% pain relief for maybe 10 weeks, then nothing. Wish they would have been helpful. And I also did knee exercises daily, to no avail. (Still doing them 7 months after TKR, on top of walking and swimming and gardening etc.).
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@helenr I presume Orthovist is similar to synvisc. I was getting synvisc shots for quite a while and they did help tremendously. I also exercised my knees a lot and that helps by strengthening the supporting muscles, which also makes recovery from a TKR easier.
Those are both great strategies. I did eventually have a TKR in October 2017 and it was extremely successful.
I agree with you though, as long as the shots give you enough relief, why have a TKR?
JK