RE: New--with severe OA/knee problems

July 7, 2011

I hade arthroscopic knee surgery done in 2009 and it was the WORST mistake

I've ever made. The surgery was a failure and despite KNOWING that I had

RSD in that leg, the surgeon did NOTHING to help prevent further

advancement of the RSD or to treat it afterwards....he didn't even send me

to PT. Just told me that once I got the range of motion to a certain place,

he wouldn't see me anymore. My knee is STILL twice as big as the other,

when it is NOT swollen...it cracks and jerks because it's bone on bone and

there is pain from the surgeon taking too much tissue. I have met only one

or two people who felt that the arthroscopic surgery did any good, and they

were BOTH younger and had MILD damage to their knee.

If your knee is that bad (as mine is too), I'd listen to the majority of the

doctors and the PT and NOT do it. BTW, I'm 42 now and they've been trying

to get me to do the full knee replacement since I was 40....there is not

such a thing as " too young " if the knee is that bad. The problem is that

the synthetic knee will wear out and you'll have to have MORE replacements

in the future; where as with older folk, they only have to plan for ONE or

TWO.

Marta

>Yael wrote:

I went to a new orthopedist. He is doing a CT scan and says he may be able

to do arthroscopic surgery instead of a full knee replacement. A friend who

is a physical therapist says " don't do it! " She has seen too many bad

results from the arthroscopic surgery. This is the only doctor who has ever

suggested anything except a knee replacement. My friend says this is because

my arthritis is severe and most doctors realize that the knee replacement is

the only real solution.

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