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Had my ortho doctor appointment yesterday
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<blockquote data-quote="LittleDudesMom" data-source="post: 605389" data-attributes="member: 805"><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'comic sans ms'">Janet, there is a genetic degenerative knee issue that runs in my mom's family -- almost all of her siblings have had issues and surgeries. I do, up until very recent years, remember that doctors didn't want to do replacement until a patient was a little older because the replacement hardware did not have a long life. But, that has all changed now. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'comic sans ms'">I know you love this doctor (and I understand that is 75% of the "battle"), but continued cortisone injections and pain would seem a huge surgery no-brainer to me......Did he give you a reason that he wanted to wait? There's also a chance that some portion of your back issues would lessen if you were able to walk in a more "normal" fashion due to knee replacement.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'comic sans ms'">Sorry, don't mean to be a downer, just have a lot of family experience in the knee replacement arena.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'comic sans ms'"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'comic sans ms'">Sharon</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'comic sans ms'"></span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="LittleDudesMom, post: 605389, member: 805"] [SIZE=3][FONT=comic sans ms]Janet, there is a genetic degenerative knee issue that runs in my mom's family -- almost all of her siblings have had issues and surgeries. I do, up until very recent years, remember that doctors didn't want to do replacement until a patient was a little older because the replacement hardware did not have a long life. But, that has all changed now. [/FONT] [FONT=comic sans ms]I know you love this doctor (and I understand that is 75% of the "battle"), but continued cortisone injections and pain would seem a huge surgery no-brainer to me......Did he give you a reason that he wanted to wait? There's also a chance that some portion of your back issues would lessen if you were able to walk in a more "normal" fashion due to knee replacement.[/FONT] [FONT=comic sans ms]Sorry, don't mean to be a downer, just have a lot of family experience in the knee replacement arena. Sharon [/FONT][/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
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