Thanks,
@Cococay but I don’t really think there’s help and to be honest, my
trust level is pretty low at this point. I’ve seen other members with poor outcomes, who’ve tried lots of things that didn’t help, and I’m not willing to subject my leg to further intrusions. 2 really good surgeons didn’t know what to do with me and neither offered a revision.
I now know the difference between the pre op pain I had, and the post op pain, and the long term discomfort of a poor outcome. The pre op pain I had was nothing, compared to the post op and my long term.
I actually just recently took that score chart test, in the pre op reading we have, to see how much your knee affects your life, and I answered the questions keeping my pre op pain in mind. According to that, I should never have had the surgery, as it really didn’t impact me very much. I only had pain getting up from a chair, sitting down in a chair, and doing stairs, which I was doing “the adult way.” I could walk fine, I was not bone on bone, no swelling, and it didn’t wake me up at night. And I’m not just forgetting what it was like then, I do remember the pain at those times hurt, what I thought was a lot. I expected the surgery to fix that. Actually it did fix that particular pain, but left me with something different.
I asked the second, second opinion if he does Patellofemoral partials, and he said no. He said surgeons were “on the fence” about it. At my one year check up I asked my surgeon‘s office how many Patellofemorals my surgeon had done, they said they’d have to look into it and get back to me. When they did call me they wouldn’t give me a straight answer.