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TKR #2..... Lessons I am learning
Joint Replacements | Last Active: Feb 3, 2023 | Replies (64)Comment receiving replies
@auntieoakley : I trust you are doing well with your second knee replacement. You are a veteran, both from personal experience, and so many other people adding their input. I had my right TKR 9/18, 85% happy with it. 100% functional. Just curious - if I would be faced with need to fix major knee pain in my other knee, I would -other than PT, etc. - try PRP, even stem cell injections, before TKR , perhaps even lowered expectations of activity, since I’m somehow getting older all the time. Again, my artificial knee works well, does not hurt, irritates the heck out of me because it clicks, and I can’t kneel, and it feels like about 5 degrees off perfect alignment, sort of screwed on lopsided........ so all those things would cause me to avoid a left TKR. Just wondering about your decision to go with TKR again. None of my beeswax, of course, Just curious if you had ever tried other options for either knee. Stay well, and go slay it. You know what to do - you can teach others what to do!
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@ellerbracke I guess your post was intended for me?
I am doing well. I exercise and walk a lot and as a result I do have discomfort at the end of the day. I didn't always and I believe a couple of medications I take now contribute to that.
Regarding why I never considered other options to a TKR, the only "permanent" option that I was really aware of was stem cell and from everything I read and heard the success rate with that was only somewhere around 50% I think, and it's not covered by insurance. That's a lot of money to risk and then not have your knee be better. My husband does know someone who went that route and it was not helpful at all. I did do PT but that can only help so much. I had cortisone and then Synvisc too. Synvisc helped for a while but eventually it stopped helping.
@anncgrl I agree with you, don't listen too much to others. One other thing that I think is important is to not think that a replaced knee is going to be exactly what your perfect, natural knee was like. It is not. There will at times be discomfort. People need to accept that.
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I am afraid the tag went to the wrong Person. I would send this forward to @contentandwell