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Partial knee replacement.

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Moosn8r
Moosn8r

Hello all.

Im looking for advice. I will need both knees replaced eventually. But for now, the doctor im seeing just did an mri to decide to do a partial, or to do a "release" to keep my kneecap from being pulled in wrong direction. I see him next week for results. Anyone have pros or cons for either of these? Im a 50 yr old female in aircraft industry having a difficult time crawling around planes.

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  • max07424
    max07424 Moosn8r

    Posted

    Hi. If you are talking about an anthroscopy which i had till they could get me in to have knee replacement, I found it a waste of time and money, it lasted about 6 weeks and I was back in pain, but got to be honest I have now had my knee replacement and I am now on the mend after 2 months in shear agony, people I talk to now say if I had known you were having knee replacement I would have said don't bother the pain is horendous and yet some people have had little pain, we are all different but glad now I have had it done, hope you are sorted out soon as I had to wait 4 years, one piece of advice make sure they put you on the correct medication and give you the correct anaesthetic which they didn't with me and if you are in pain shout from the rooftops as they intend to ignore you. max

    • Moosn8r
      Moosn8r max07424

      Posted

      I have had arthroscopy on the right knee. I knew it would not fix it, but cleaning it up has lessened the sharp pain when straightening it. Still hurts all the time, but maybe a few more years before TKR. As for the left, I am just not sure if I should skip the partial, ask for arthroscopy to bide some time until TKR...I guess I will discuss with the doc. I haven't heard of the "tendon release" (?). Not sure if anyone else has... thank you!

  • CHICO_MARX
    CHICO_MARX Moosn8r

    Posted

    Have read over 4,000 posts on here.  People see little difference in recovery time (up to a year) between full TKR and a partial.  Consider that.  I have not read a lot about nerves and partial, but for a TKR, the nerve pain WHEN KNEELING can last a long, long time.  Most everyone uses a foam pad indoors and padded tactical knee pads for outside work.  No one EVER puts a replaced knee directly on cement or anything hard.
    • Moosn8r
      Moosn8r CHICO_MARX

      Posted

      Thanks for the info, I'm leaning towards arthroscopy on left and wait a bit for TKR rather than do partial now, then TKR later...seems like double the down time. Good to know about the pads. Thanks

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