Hello everyone.
I am hoping to get some good advice as I need TKR on both knees. I have had long term problems since childhood and had 12 operations in all since the age of 11 with lots of pain and long recoveries with two of the surgeries to straighten my legs going wrong. Coming up to the present day I now need the TKR’s as mobility and pain are both really bad. I am feeling so frustrated with not being able to walk as I love to and needing to know how near I need to be to everything and where to park and missing out on so much. I am going to attend a knee evening at a local private hospital given by an orthopaedic surgeon specialising in knees to find out more. My childhood fears of surgery are making it so hard to move forward I am just so scared of it all but know I don’t really have any other option if I want to get my life back.
It would be great to hear some good advice!!
I am hoping to get some good advice as I need TKR on both knees. I have had long term problems since childhood and had 12 operations in all since the age of 11 with lots of pain and long recoveries with two of the surgeries to straighten my legs going wrong. Coming up to the present day I now need the TKR’s as mobility and pain are both really bad. I am feeling so frustrated with not being able to walk as I love to and needing to know how near I need to be to everything and where to park and missing out on so much. I am going to attend a knee evening at a local private hospital given by an orthopaedic surgeon specialising in knees to find out more. My childhood fears of surgery are making it so hard to move forward I am just so scared of it all but know I don’t really have any other option if I want to get my life back.
It would be great to hear some good advice!!