Ghost Rider
junior member
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- May 5, 2020
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I was in to see one of the Ortho's I have been interviewing for my future surgery. This whole process has been very difficult. The doctor I saw in July showed me a xray where my right knee showed partial bone on bone. It was clear visible.
Fast forward to yesterday I had those xrays from July on a disc 4 of these I posted below. Yesterdays doctor questioned the bone on bone prognosis but stopped short of saying he was wrong. After more discussion on where I thought the pain was coming from. He suggested a PKR specifically a patella femoral. I started reading a little and these are my symptoms going up and down stairs and getting up and down from my knees. He said it is a much less invasive surgery removing the knee cap and tissue around it. Possibly delaying a TKR for another 15years or so.
He said we could get an MRI to tell for sure. That is until I told the staff person I have a 100% MRI option through my insurance. They tried to scare me into using their in house MRI telling me they called the provider and I was covered at 0% they were not in network and I would be responsible for 100% of the cost. I since found out that that is absolutely not the case all they have to do is fax the order and choose a date, time and facility to go to.
Two days later I have not confirmed that the order was ever sent. The MRI provider called me saying they had called and faxed a request for the order and still nothing but wanted to let me know they are trying to get it. I asked is it obviously because they wanted to perform the MRI and are reluctant to follow up. They confirmed that does happen.
Anyone have more information about this type of knee replacement and looking at my xrays especially the bent knee you can see what to me looks like a bone spur and bend my knees getting up and down this is what causes me pain. Looking at those shots this feels right.
I don't remember any doctor looking more than a few seconds at any xray and saying what do you want to do if the pain is bad enough lets do the surgery you just let me know when you're ready.
I'm no doctor and nor do I know what I'm looking at but if those spurs were ground off might that help my pain?
Fast forward to yesterday I had those xrays from July on a disc 4 of these I posted below. Yesterdays doctor questioned the bone on bone prognosis but stopped short of saying he was wrong. After more discussion on where I thought the pain was coming from. He suggested a PKR specifically a patella femoral. I started reading a little and these are my symptoms going up and down stairs and getting up and down from my knees. He said it is a much less invasive surgery removing the knee cap and tissue around it. Possibly delaying a TKR for another 15years or so.
He said we could get an MRI to tell for sure. That is until I told the staff person I have a 100% MRI option through my insurance. They tried to scare me into using their in house MRI telling me they called the provider and I was covered at 0% they were not in network and I would be responsible for 100% of the cost. I since found out that that is absolutely not the case all they have to do is fax the order and choose a date, time and facility to go to.
Two days later I have not confirmed that the order was ever sent. The MRI provider called me saying they had called and faxed a request for the order and still nothing but wanted to let me know they are trying to get it. I asked is it obviously because they wanted to perform the MRI and are reluctant to follow up. They confirmed that does happen.
Anyone have more information about this type of knee replacement and looking at my xrays especially the bent knee you can see what to me looks like a bone spur and bend my knees getting up and down this is what causes me pain. Looking at those shots this feels right.
I don't remember any doctor looking more than a few seconds at any xray and saying what do you want to do if the pain is bad enough lets do the surgery you just let me know when you're ready.
I'm no doctor and nor do I know what I'm looking at but if those spurs were ground off might that help my pain?