Knee surgery

[ridebikeme]

Glad to hear that you have such a great Dr Catrin! I'm sure that you will bounced back quickly and will be determined to PT. Enjoy your time knitting, reading, etc... that time will go fast and you'll be back training before you know it.

[Catrin]

Glad to hear that you have such a great Dr Catrin! I'm sure that you will bounced back quickly and will be determined to PT. Enjoy your time knitting, reading, etc... that time will go fast and you'll be back training before you know it.

I hope you are right! I made the mistake of reading a couple examples of others who have had the scope/(chondroplasty?) + lateral release and their recuperation. I should have known better, I really should have. Everybody, and every body, is different. Now I need a memory wipe so I can relax for the next 3 weeks :-)

[Pax]

I hope you are right! I made the mistake of reading a couple examples of others who have had the scope/(chondroplasty?) + lateral release and their recuperation. I should have known better, I really should have. Everybody, and every body, is different. Now I need a memory wipe so I can relax for the next 3 weeks :-)

Exactly. I did a massive amount of reading and research prior to my knee replacement, peoples results varied from horrific (losing their leg) to astounding (up and running a marathon in six months). Like everything else it's a bell curve, I wish I was recovering faster but I'm just at a different place on the curve than some other people.

[Crankin]

I tell my clients that I am banning them from reading about medical/psych issues on line!
People who write on those sites don't usually share stuff that is good.

[Pax]

I tell my clients that I am banning them from reading about medical/psych issues on line!
People who write on those sites don't usually share stuff that is good.

Reminds me of my mental health days, you always knew who owned their own copy of the DSM IV.

[thekarens]

I tell my clients that I am banning them from reading about medical/psych issues on line!
People who write on those sites don't usually share stuff that is good.

True story! My gyn finally told me to stay away from Dr. Google

[Helene2013]

We do all this...read on our issues (whether for us or my pets) ...sometimes it is scary though. It seems that no matter what we look for, we have all the symptoms and more for x issue. haha

I think the worst for me was reading before my eye laser correction surgery.... I have not read anything scarier than this...so much that I refused for years to get it done. Now that I did (in 2008), it is one of the best things I did for me and no major issues either. In fact, no issues at all but some discomfort after numbness went away post-surgery and it did not last.

So you cannot always compare yourself or try to foresee all that can happen or you won't breath for a while. haha

Good luck!

[OakLeaf]

I guess I'd take a somewhat contrary view and say we all have a responsibility to educate ourselves before undergoing any medical procedure, but "educating ourselves" is not the same thing as "listening only to everyone who's had a problem." It IS, however, understanding how often problems happen, and how severe they're likely to be, and weighing those risks realistically against the risk of what might happen without the treatment, or with a different treatment.

Like Helene, the problems with LASIK you read about - yes, those problems can be severe and life-altering for those who have them, but it makes a big difference whether those problems happen to 0.5%, 5% or 50% of people who undergo LASIK, and that's the kind of thing you can only find out by poring over medical journals and making sure your research isn't limited to industry-sponsored studies, which are even more misleading than limiting your research to support groups for people who have had severe complications. Understanding statistics helps weed out studies that were poorly designed, or that were designed to yield information other than what you're looking for. Checking a journal's history of retractions helps get a sense of how rigorous their peer review process is.

We can't trust doctors to tell us the whole truth about the likely consequences of treatment or the course of recovery - as Pax recently found out. The existence of people with severe complications doesn't tell us anything about the likelihood of those complications (though sometimes, those support groups offer links to research). We have to do our own homework.

[rebeccaC]

Catrin....saw this on my lunch walk as i was thinking of this thread

blessing and healing chants from venice beach

[Catrin]

Thanks for the encouraging thoughts and best wishes, I am just thankful that the time has finally arrived. It has been a LONG three weeks! I am much better dealing with things as they happen and really over-think things as I anticipate them. I know that comes as a surprise for those who have known me on this forum since 2010... or not

Rebecca, I love the shades of color on that wall, cool!

[rebeccaC]

Things are improving The knee now actually resembles a knee, and I can now walk for 10 minutes or so at a time, albeit slowly. I CAN walk longer but there are consequences. Hoping to get back to the office in a week or two as it would be nice to start returning to something like a normal schedule! Working hard on my PT exercises so I can get back sooner than later. Thanks for asking!

slowly 'or hopefully faster' and surely 'or Shirley' you'll get there. .....your positive attitude certainly helps!!!!!

[OakLeaf]

Glad to hear it! Hope you keep making such good progress.

[rebeccaC]

And I saw my Ortho today, I return to the office next week

....well there seems to be a 3 character rule for posting....but then more smiles are good

[Catrin]

....well there seems to be a 3 character rule for posting....but then more smiles are good

Yes they are