Re: Pain in other knee after TKR (same leg's hip can be weak or weaken too )

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Jagged and/ or uneven surfaces of bone crashing ontoo bone psin IS intolerable

by anyones pain tolerance. I was offerred the TKR surgery by one doc 8 years

ago

but i declined for reasons stated below. Then when I came in to discuss that 7

year prior offer It was a different story and i was presented with a new set of

stahl options ie. try Synvisc or try PT or try Wt Loss etc etc. What

happened to that promise I waited 7 years to collect on? I was not wanting to

put this Knee off MORE years with Synvisc or another round of Off Loading

therapy so Inchose the weight loss and began

getting other opinions.

Well just when my wt loss was achieved that legs hip joint began to crumble and

instead of a well planned new knee I was told by a Hip and Knee specialty

orthopedic surgery consultatant that I needed a new hip before i could get rhe

new Knee. They do hips before knees when both are needed on same leg.

He was right because I was " Wheel Chair Bound " by the time (less than 6 weeks)

I couod get in for the THR.

L

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> > Not necessarily.  Your other knee has to work a bit harder with your bad

knee out of commission.  When the knee is fixed, the good knee stops bothering

you.  Usually.  I got one knee done almost two years ago.  The other one is

still fine.  It may not be in the future, but for now, I am not planning any

further surgeries.

> > All the best, Joan

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> > From: Lilla Ross <lillaross@>

> > Joint Replacement

> > Sent: Monday, October 24, 2011 7:14 PM

> > Subject: Re: Pain in other knee after TKR

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> > i had my right knee replaced 5 weeks ago. It was in really bad shape, very

painful, so i never really noticed my left knee's complaints. But it has had to

take up the slack for the right knee and it's not happy. I was told that if one

knee needs to be replaced, the other one will too.

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