Re: arthritis/synvisc (was Synflex)

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I think that's what I'm waiting for...I'm a devout chicken. Meant to write

orthopod...don't know where in the world arthropod came from...LOL!!! Kind of

a weird way of putting it anyway...makes me think of " attack of the body

snatchers! " LOL! Anyway...yes, it was not a pleasant experience, but I figured

at

the time...I would try just about anything short of another surgery. I've

had three arthroscopies on my knees...(aha...that's where my oddball word came

from!!! ROFL!!) and no more cartilege to remove...so any port in a

storm...sometimes those ports offer nothing...not even respite from the storm.

WLS DID

give me relief....and bought me time...and I'm waiting for the next new cure to

come down the pike...and if not a cure...then hopefully " help. " Got to do

what we've got to do for now! The arthritis was behind my kneecaps too..they

had

to scrape them...just wonder how much kneecap I have left. I know they

replace the patella with knee replacement...with a plastic disc of sorts, at

least,

when I saw the surgery performed on TV..(a total gross-out!) that's what they

did. I cringed until my toes curled up.

Regards~

Jacque

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> I just hope that as I get older, they will come up with new and better

> treatments that don't involve total knee replacements.

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> Kimba in GA

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