Update on my reversing AVN

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Hello everyone! Its been several months since my last posting and I

told everyone I would get back with them after I got my next MRI. I

was diagnosed with bilateral AVN in my hips about 1 1/2 years ago and

about 9 months ago, my pain suddenly started disappearing. I went

back to my ortho and he said that my AVN was actually " reversing, "

meaning instead of my hips getting worse, they were getting better.

I posted a message in here telling everyone of the good news and I

received a lot of comments from skeptics that said I need to get

MRI's to back this up. Well, I took their advice and got a full

scale MRI of both hips a month ago. Today I got the results, which

confirmed that my hips are regenerating. The edima is gone, there is

no collapse, and the bone is actually regrowing. My doctor said that

this sometimes happens, although they really have no idea why, and

that it is very unlikely that my hips would take a turn for the worst

in the future. His prognosis is full recovery without any surgery.

I'm just so very lucky and I wanted to share my good news with

everyone, especially to encourage anyone who, like I was, may be in

the early stages of AVN and feeling hopeless. The 1st doctor I went

to wanted me to do CD surgery asap and I got a second opinion. My

current doctor says that he believes many of the successes of CD

surgery would have been spontaneous reversing WITHOUT the surgery, so

he always likes to wait a little longer than most to see if things

will get better on their own before doing surgery. He was right!

Thank you Dr. Kelman!!! At any rate, I feel very blessed!

Never give up hope!

Craig

Boca Raton, FL