Double Trouble
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I found this forum the other day and decided I had to join. I wish I had found this last year when I had my Bilateral TKR done in October 2018! I was a mess before that operation and it would have helped my anxiety quite a bit by communicating with people who had already gone through the operation.
Last month, at my one year Bilateral TKR checkup, I found out that the button on my left patella had fallen off and was causing swelling and some pain. I really did not think much about the pain and swelling in the left knee leading up to this visit because I heard a TKR can take up to 1.5 years to heal and feel better. The revelation that a mechanical failure had occurred in my new knee blew me away. I did not want to go through the TKR trauma again…it was why I had requested to have a bilateral replacement in the first place!
I have Smith and Nephew Visionaire knees and was told by my surgeon that having the button fall off is very rare. He said he has done thousands of TKRs and has only heard of this happening twice. When he reviewed the X- with me, it definitely showed that there was something wrong. It was a side by side picture of my two knees, showing both patellas and the locations of the buttons on each patella. The right button was perfectly aligned high under the patella but the other button showed it was below my patella, sitting on the lower part of the knee. He was extremely apologetic and offered to do the revision right away. I really had no choice to have the surgery and a few weeks later I had my knee operated on again in November.
What I would like to know is this a rare occurrence as stated by my surgeon? Or does anyone know if this happens more often than stated?
Last month, at my one year Bilateral TKR checkup, I found out that the button on my left patella had fallen off and was causing swelling and some pain. I really did not think much about the pain and swelling in the left knee leading up to this visit because I heard a TKR can take up to 1.5 years to heal and feel better. The revelation that a mechanical failure had occurred in my new knee blew me away. I did not want to go through the TKR trauma again…it was why I had requested to have a bilateral replacement in the first place!
I have Smith and Nephew Visionaire knees and was told by my surgeon that having the button fall off is very rare. He said he has done thousands of TKRs and has only heard of this happening twice. When he reviewed the X- with me, it definitely showed that there was something wrong. It was a side by side picture of my two knees, showing both patellas and the locations of the buttons on each patella. The right button was perfectly aligned high under the patella but the other button showed it was below my patella, sitting on the lower part of the knee. He was extremely apologetic and offered to do the revision right away. I really had no choice to have the surgery and a few weeks later I had my knee operated on again in November.
What I would like to know is this a rare occurrence as stated by my surgeon? Or does anyone know if this happens more often than stated?