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Keep up the strengthening work on your knees. It's amazing how long you can put off replacement if you keep the muscles strong. It sounds a bit odd that you new knee would not be your stronger knee unless the muscles are just not "there"? Also, having had a TKR for five years I can tell you it will never feel like a natural knee (because it isn't) but you get used to it. Have your doctors mentioned that long term cortisone shots can be harmful to the cartilage of your other knee? I'd be a little skeptical about any doctor that would continue to give shots for more than a year. Has anyone mentioned trying viscosupplementation as an alternative to surgery?