Experienced Arthritics Here?
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I have to agree that surgery should be the remedy of last resort and only after a second opinion (or two). After 30 years of deteriorating my right knee was shot and the VA said I needed a total knee replacement, should have been routine.... right? :R
October of 2012 they replaced the knee, 17 days of hell in the VA hospital and home I went to rehab and recover. After no improvement 3, 4 and even 5 months later I fired my surgeon and got a second opinion. Long story short the Chromium knee they put in contained Cobalt and Nickel and it turns out I am severely allergic to both. In May they went back in and removed the Chromium knee (14 more days in the hospital from hell), and did a "Revision" which = a second complete replacement.
Seven months later I am about 75% recovered and looking at another 5 months of rehab before getting back to where I was before the first surgery.... lucky me. :S Before you let them do a knee replacement get tested for potential allergic reaction to whatever they are going to put in. My reaction was rare but that didn't mitigate the pain one iota. :M
October of 2012 they replaced the knee, 17 days of hell in the VA hospital and home I went to rehab and recover. After no improvement 3, 4 and even 5 months later I fired my surgeon and got a second opinion. Long story short the Chromium knee they put in contained Cobalt and Nickel and it turns out I am severely allergic to both. In May they went back in and removed the Chromium knee (14 more days in the hospital from hell), and did a "Revision" which = a second complete replacement.
Seven months later I am about 75% recovered and looking at another 5 months of rehab before getting back to where I was before the first surgery.... lucky me. :S Before you let them do a knee replacement get tested for potential allergic reaction to whatever they are going to put in. My reaction was rare but that didn't mitigate the pain one iota. :M
