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| Best of luck, I am long overdue and just keep putting it off. I hope you get some relief. SHAWN
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| BTDT...just last week. 
"If you’re a leader, you lead the way. Not just on the easy ones; you take the tough ones too…” – MAJ Richard D. Winters (1918-2011), E Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne
"Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil... Therefore, as tongues of fire lick up straw and as dry grass sinks down in the flames, so their roots will decay and their flowers blow away like dust; for they have rejected the law of the Lord Almighty and spurned the word of the Holy One of Israel." - Isaiah 5:20,24 |
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| I have had 5 surgeries on my left knee. Started with meniscus but ultimately after multiple sports injuries I had reconstruction of both ACL and MCL. I tore them both again, but my surgeon won't fix them. He says I need a new knee, the outer half is arthritic bone on bone and additional surgery will only reduce the chance of a successful replacement. He prescribed a brace to off-load the outside, but he gives me no more than 5 years. I wear it when I engage in sports, to delay the replacement as long as possible. Knee replacements are great if you are 70 and sedentary, but younger more active folks can wear them out in as little as 12-14 years, and the revision surgery to replace the replacement is far more invasive and the chances of success are far lower. Don't live in pain with an altered lifestyle, but my advice is to delay surgery until it becomes necessary. There are reports of cutting edge procedures to halt deterioration and even restore cartilage coming in regularly. Also be wary of surgeons, they have generally one point of view on these things. Remember, to a man with a hammer every problem looks like a nail.
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| Getting my left knee replaced end of next month. After 24 years in the field, I have a desk job. Should last me a while.
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"The Nazis entered this war under the rather childish delusion that they were going to bomb everyone else, and nobody was going to bomb them. At Rotterdam, London, Warsaw and half a hundred other places, they put their rather naive theory into operation. They sowed the wind, and now they are going to reap the whirlwind."
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| I tore the meniscus in my left knee 25 years ago. I had it scoped and the Doc found crystals and told me that I had Gout. He also said that I was a perfect candidate for a knee replacement. I was working a few days later and to this day, I have had no problems with the knee, even though I am about 60 pounds overweight. |
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| 18 months on a new right knee. I was bone on bone and out of options. At age 59 my only regret was not doing it sooner. Big quality of life improvement.
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| quote: Originally posted by SHOOTIN BLANKS:
18 months on a new right knee. I was bone on bone and out of options. At age 59 my only regret was not doing it sooner. Big quality of life improvement.
45 months on a new left knee. I was bone on bone and out of options. At age 61 my only regret was not doing it sooner. Big quality of life improvement.  |
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