Knee arthroscopy

[KarmaDope]

FFS the NHS is really is a pile of poo my MRI showed a small degenerative tear  of the free margin of the 3rd middle lateral meniscus(will google that in a min) !!!!

You have torn cartilage due to degeneration.

[G1BTW]

 

/\ The look on the surgeon's face when he realised he'd forgotten to do an MRI scan. Proceeded instead with an operation based on 'clinical assessment'. Hasn't really fixed the knee I don't think. He did have a wry smile on his face post op 'You know all those things you did? Kiteboarding, skiing, running?' Keep doing them, then come back to me in 2 years and I'll fit you with a new set of knees.' So he's stuck me on swimming I can't really walk far without feeling some pain in the knee. I get the feeling he didn't do enough, or maybe wasn't informed enough because of no MRI. I now need to demand my hospital notes to do the research myself and see if I need a second opinion.

[cia260895]

/\ The look on the surgeon's face when he realised he'd forgotten to do an MRI scan. Proceeded instead with an operation based on 'clinical assessment'. Hasn't really fixed the knee I don't think. He did have a wry smile on his face post op 'You know all those things you did? Kiteboarding, skiing, running?' Keep doing them, then come back to me in 2 years and I'll fit you with a new set of knees.' So he's stuck me on swimming I can't really walk far without feeling some pain in the knee. I get the feeling he didn't do enough, or maybe wasn't informed enough because of no MRI. I now need to demand my hospital notes to do the research myself and see if I need a second opinion.

ouch but it just doesnt surprise me,

ask your GP to get all your notes

[G1BTW]

/\ The look on the surgeon's face when he realised he'd forgotten to do an MRI scan. Proceeded instead with an operation based on 'clinical assessment'. Hasn't really fixed the knee I don't think. He did have a wry smile on his face post op 'You know all those things you did? Kiteboarding, skiing, running?' Keep doing them, then come back to me in 2 years and I'll fit you with a new set of knees.' So he's stuck me on swimming I can't really walk far without feeling some pain in the knee. I get the feeling he didn't do enough, or maybe wasn't informed enough because of no MRI. I now need to demand my hospital notes to do the research myself and see if I need a second opinion.

ouch but it just doesnt surprise me,

ask your GP to get all your notes

Yer I'll try thanks. On the plus side, the drugs were bloody fantastic. I don't take drugs but after that experience I can totally see the attraction. Wiiiiiiiiiiii! 'Oh yeah doc, still hurts like hell..'

[Micko]

I've actually had 2 of these first time i snapped my meniscus playing football(serious pain) second time it was a repair job which was far smoother but 2 years down the line im currently waiting to go back in for my third operation on the same knee about time i packed the football in lol

[Micko]

/\ The look on the surgeon's face when he realised he'd forgotten to do an MRI scan. Proceeded instead with an operation based on 'clinical assessment'. Hasn't really fixed the knee I don't think. He did have a wry smile on his face post op 'You know all those things you did? Kiteboarding, skiing, running?' Keep doing them, then come back to me in 2 years and I'll fit you with a new set of knees.' So he's stuck me on swimming I can't really walk far without feeling some pain in the knee. I get the feeling he didn't do enough, or maybe wasn't informed enough because of no MRI. I now need to demand my hospital notes to do the research myself and see if I need a second opinion.

Mri's are great but the surgeon that done mine told me during the surgery tells them more than a mri ever would

[cia260895]

i went for my consultation today,apparently the consultant doesnt think i have torn the cartlidge as it is on the wrong side of the knee to where i am getting the pain,so i have to wait upto 11 weeks to get the arthoscope to see what is wrong,

oh and my rhemautology consultant will be "missing" for 8/9 months wtf?? so on hearing that news i asked for a repeat prescription for the methatrexate that i am on as my cancelled appointment will mean i wont have any medication for 2 months,No luck on that score as there wasnt any dr's answering the pagers!!!1

GG NHS

[cia260895]

Had pre assessment today,urine sample needed ffs why cant they tell u before u go..

also had to have an ECG just to make sure everything is ok and all being well should be going under the surgeins knife mid october time,

will need nursing through the 1st 5-7 days so applications on a postcard.......

[cia260895]

date is set for 20th october 

[cia260895]

wiiiiiiii its nearly time

[cia260895]

God my knee looks funny all bald!!!!!!!!

[cia260895]

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right knee as you look is the injured 1

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errrrgggggg

[G1BTW]

[ ] Knee hairs grow back , fyl

I was late for a train the other day, so had to run about 1 mile, happiest day of my life. Got to the train, was like WTFFF? No pain at all in my right knee. Old man has been going on to me like forever about the importance of building strength around the knee if it's a bit ****ed, so the cartilage doesn't have to bear most of the load all the time. Been doing squats with weights and walking 90 minutes a day, feels much stronger. Am going back to doc for 2nd opinion on whether I actually shouldn't be running ever again or doing serious sports. So glad I did get the operation though, and refused to let them anywhere near my knee with that razor thingie.

Best of luck with the op!   

[Micko]

I got my third op on the same knee at the start of october it was only a minor op this time.

Make sure and try to build up your quad as the muscle totally wastes away.

[cia260895]

All home safe and sound,but not without drama,ffs got to the hossie,booked in sat in waiting lounge,everyone else was being seen by the anethietist then going to get gowned up,all bar me,asked nurse what was going on and was told dont worry they haven'nt forgotten you,15mins later a registra calls me and we go into a side room.He tells me that i have no pre op notes and unless they can get them they will not be doing the operation as it is against the law.

He asked me what the consultant looked like so it would make it easier to track him down,like i could remeber exactly so said about 50 ish bit portly and wears glasses..

1/2 an hour later he comes back up to the now empty lounge and gives me the thumbs up,phew.

get to see anethetist all ok there no allergies/asthma etc were good to go,registra comes in and talks about what what they are going to do and draws a big black arrow pointing to the knee,i asked wouldnt the massive swelling and shaved knee give you a clue? procedure apparently.

All gowned up and get this had to walk to the theatre, 1st time i have ever done that was quite wierd really walking into an operating theatre,anyway i get on bed and surprise surprise my note are not in thetre FFS wtf is going on in this place,10 mins passes with calls and nurses to and froing b4 someone comes in with them phew,begin to get the knock out drugs through the face mask and told to count back from 10 got to zero and was asked am i sleepy?No not at all,oops he said i'll need to increase the dosage, hold on right count back again, got to 4 and gone and out.....

woke up feeling well spaced out yum registra comes round and tells how it all went but cant remember a thing as was still flying about,

but when i was compus mentus they told me that the tear was so slight it wasnt worthy of trying to repair and that there is mass degeneration of the cartlidge and a synovial biopsy was taken and that they had used 5 litres of saline to clear every thing out but they will be looking at biopsy results for rhematiod arthritus..

2 weeks min time off work then see how knee is fk i'm going to be skint.


On a slightly worrying side note the medication that i am taking are what that dr who tried to abort his girlfriends unborn baby and can cause death.Methatrexate and diclofenac arrrrrrgg

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