Re: I still have alot of problems

[Guest guest]

If you can convince your surgeon, you can get a back-of-the-kneecap and trochlea

replacement . See http://www.avonpatella.com/ If he says you're too young, ask

him if you're too young for a wheelchair.

Ann

I still have alot of problems

I have had 2 surgerys and still know help I had the first one and

the doctor went in and shaved the back of my pattela and the second

one I had more removed and a retinaculm release and I still have

pain I have since been released from my job do to my restriction I

would like to get some info on this and if this is going to get

worse has I get older. I am only 26 years old and I am restricted

buy what I do. I have a 3 year old daughter and I can't even go out

and play with her that much because of the pain I have tried over

the counter pain pills and they do nothing even the pills I got from

the doctor do really help. I am lost about this whole thing and I am

trying to get in fo about it . If anyone can help please email me

the info at shawnsmith@... and thank you

[Guest guest]

That is very well put Ann, and I think sums up quite nicely the frustration

most of us have felt at times with those, especially doctors, who just don't

understand or who are not educated enough in the problem.

Mike

MT

Re: I still have alot of problems

> If you can convince your surgeon, you can get a back-of-the-kneecap and

trochlea replacement . See http://www.avonpatella.com/ If he says you're

too young, ask him if you're too young for a wheelchair.

>

> Ann

[Guest guest]

Docs who think young people are too young for a partial (or even total) knee

replacement are (a) condemning young people to 2 or 3 decades of being crippled,

including possibly being in a wheelchair, in the best years of their lives, and

( not having faith in the advances of science. It's highly likely that in 10

years they'll have better, long-lasting materials. Minimally 20 years. And if

you can replace a heart-lung assembly, why not replace a kneecap from a donor?

Actually, there's discussion in the med. community now about doing knee

replacements on younger people (40's -- baby boomers are NOT satisfied to be

relegated to the bench). So you're more likely to be able to find a sympathetic

doctor. Somewhere.

Ann

Re: I still have alot of problems

> If you can convince your surgeon, you can get a back-of-the-kneecap and

trochlea replacement . See http://www.avonpatella.com/ If he says you're

too young, ask him if you're too young for a wheelchair.

>

> Ann