Perissa
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My GP has had a letter from my WLS surgeon saying that he is happy for my knee surgery to go ahead.
My GP is going to write to my consultant asking him to see me asap.
How cool is that!!!!
I'll probably have to have the MRI's etc done again as my knees have become so much worse in the last year. I wonder if instead of fixing them he will go ahead and replace them. Last time I saw him he said that he would try and get another ten years out of them as I am so young (42) but he wasn't sure as they are shot to pieces.
I have a subluxating patella on my left knee and a torn cruciate ligament on my right knee. I tore my cruciate because of the pressure I was putting on that knee trying to save my other knee. Now that is far more painful than my left knee. My left knee dislocates about 3 to 4 hundred times a day, sometimes more. It is nigh on impossible for me to go up or down stairs. At home I go upstairs on all fours and come down side ways SLOWLY hanging onto the banister like grim death as they have a nasty habit of giving out on me. Running, cycling etc is totally out of the question. My knee even dislocates when I turn over in bed! It is sooooo intensly painful. It usually clicks straight back in but once it stayed out for three days. Funnily enough when it is 'out' it isn't painful just uncomfortable and I can't straighten my leg, but going in and out is agony. My right knee, is the same injury that footballers do, hurts all the time. It is very unstable with a medial/lateral imbalance. In other word it doesn't just bend back to front but also side to side.
My GP is going to write to my consultant asking him to see me asap.
How cool is that!!!!
I'll probably have to have the MRI's etc done again as my knees have become so much worse in the last year. I wonder if instead of fixing them he will go ahead and replace them. Last time I saw him he said that he would try and get another ten years out of them as I am so young (42) but he wasn't sure as they are shot to pieces.
I have a subluxating patella on my left knee and a torn cruciate ligament on my right knee. I tore my cruciate because of the pressure I was putting on that knee trying to save my other knee. Now that is far more painful than my left knee. My left knee dislocates about 3 to 4 hundred times a day, sometimes more. It is nigh on impossible for me to go up or down stairs. At home I go upstairs on all fours and come down side ways SLOWLY hanging onto the banister like grim death as they have a nasty habit of giving out on me. Running, cycling etc is totally out of the question. My knee even dislocates when I turn over in bed! It is sooooo intensly painful. It usually clicks straight back in but once it stayed out for three days. Funnily enough when it is 'out' it isn't painful just uncomfortable and I can't straighten my leg, but going in and out is agony. My right knee, is the same injury that footballers do, hurts all the time. It is very unstable with a medial/lateral imbalance. In other word it doesn't just bend back to front but also side to side.
