Knee pain after fall
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I had a partial knee replacement in my right knee 18 months ago and am awaiting TKR on my left knee. The last X-rays showed deterioration of my right knee cap also (perhaps should have had TKR instead). I fell over a couple of weeks ago and I think I landed on my knees, everything seemed ok until 6 days later and I could hardly move my right knee for the pain. It felt as if there were bones out of place and there was a lot of cracking and crunching, eventually after a good night sleep it seemed a lot better but I am still getting a lot of pain, mostly at the back of my knee but other parts of the knee aswell and a lot more pain in the left knee. Do you think I have damaged the implant or just the arthritic bones around it? Don't really want to see consultant about it as he will be annoyed that I have damaged it so near to being done.
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Knackeredknees Mandy1962
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Hi Mandy
I am a medical secretary specialising in orthopaedics. Please don't be afraid to see your consultant These things happen He might be more annoyed if you let it go on and possibly make things worse. The sooner he sees it the easier to fix Consultants are human and mostly quite nice really!
Mandy1962 Knackeredknees
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Thanks for your reply but unfortunately I don't think my consultant would be very understanding. Like I said I am waiting for a TKR on my left knee but he wants me to lose wait before the operation (even though I am the same weight as I was for my first op), so I'm pretty sure he will just blame my weight and as he actually reduced me to tears at our last meeting I don't think I could go through it again.
It has been a little easier since posting but I definately think I have done something to my right knee as I get really sharp pains at times and then it just stiffens up. I may mention it to him when I eventually get my left knee op.