Re: Is anybody on tonight?

January 8, 2009

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> Hi everybody. Is anybody on tonight? I'm starting this process

> late...asking for answers, but can anyone talk to me about knee

> replacement? What did you try before the surgery? Did you have bone-

> on-bone? What kind of experience was it? Would you do it again?

> Anyone suspect RA??? Lasleep (a).

Hi, a.

I had two of them replaced a year ago October 11. Before surgery, I

took LOTS of naproxen (had to stop a month before surgery, however),

cortisone injections, SynVisc injections, and a lot of hobbling.

I wish I knew about Z-coil shoes at the time - it would have helped

take the impact out of walking.

Yes, mine were bone on bone, so the cortisone and synvisc didn't do much.

The experience, while it wasn't a walk in the park, was certainly

tolerable. It will be several months before you can really get around,

and a year before you start feeling like you actually own the new

knees. Yes, there was pain, but after surgery for me, the bones hurt

less than before, even the day of surgery when they had me walk for

the first time (might have been the good drugs helping out there!) I

am extremely glad to have done it. Yes, I'd do it again. The quality

of life has improved dramatically with the pain gone.

Bill in Minneapolis

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