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Swelling and stiffness, 3 years after total knee replacement

Joint Replacements | Last Active: Apr 3 5:43pm | Replies (218)
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@eeppeerr88

I had a TKR 5 years ago and five times within the last 7 weeks my knee blows up the size of a 16 inch baseball. I"m on crutches for 2 days and then i can put weight on it.. I went to see the doctor and he had me get a MRI, CAT Scan, and a Ultra Sound After the test results he says everything looks normal. Well that is impossible and i think these so called doctors have no idea whats going on. I"m 5" 10 and weigh 185. So no weight issues. Anyone have any idea as to what might be going on?

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Sue, Volunteer Mentor | @sueinmn | Dec 10, 2020

Are you seeing your primary or your ortho doc? Did they ever use a needle to extract any fluid for a culture while it was swollen? It sounds like when my Mom had a systemic infection that would "settle" in the fluid near her knee. Or did they do an ESR blood test to check for systemic inflammation?
Sue

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