liveinPluto
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Hi, i am new here! I I have been suffering from the arthritis since when I was 13 years old. I turned 25 this year.
When I was 13 years old, I was diagnosed as arthritis. The first bout of my disease was I got a hardened fluid in my knees and a stiff neck. I took Arthrocentesis. However I’ve experienced all kinds of physical examination, Doctor wouldn’t categorize my symptoms and my results as a specific kind of disease. And my symptoms were so remittent.
I have never got a name of the disease. When I entered high school, I often got a high fever which wouldn’t go down. I was in and out of the hospital. Around that time, i was diagnosed as possibly having an ‘Adult onset still disease’ once; still I haven’t ever got a pathognomonical salmon-pink rash. There was also the time I was in hospital as I got irritation of stomach and intestinum from the IV antibiotic drugs with which I was treated, while I was in hospital. I took an examination of intestinum with an endoscope and a gastro camera as well. And the cartilage in my hip joints has been worn and torn and now it’s all gone. The problem now is attrition between bone and bone. Well, now “Bone and bone arthritis” is happening here.
I can’t walk without clutches; still I can take a seat but have a difficulty to do that. ROM is getting narrow and I have been in so much but now pain is gone as they stick together. Now I can’t even drive a car unable me to go to work. I have been working full time but now it seems to difficult to work. Now I am on a sickness pay. I have been worrying about undergoing an operation.
I have been studying about the total hip replacement. I have been collecting the information from zimmer co., and the other home page. I am so interested in the young people who took the operation and also who can’t decide for the operation like me. The Doctor told me that he can’t perform hip resurfacing to me because of my born quantity problem. When i took the synovectomy at the age 20, I could talk to the patients who took THR for fifth times while i was in hospital and I thought I don’t want to be like them…
I first thought that I should undergo an operation to get higher QOL than now, so that I can back to work. But even if it stays in my hip for 30 years long, my age would be 55. And I guess 55 is still considerably young considering it’s before reaching the mandatory retirement age 60. I can’t be happy in a bed at the hospital with a severance pay. Thinking like that way, I feel like procrastinating an operation as long as possible. I don’t know how I make a decision considering the future. I can’t even sleep thinking about this ultimate choice ‘do’ or ’not to do’; since the doctor let me make a decision. My family doesn’t know much about this operation. No one is on my side. It is totally my problems and my responsibility.
The good product is only proved when it is actually placed in someone’s hip and if it works with no problem for more than 30 years in hip. But it doesn’t mean it goes well for everyone.In speculation, cutting edge products don’t always mean good. I am guessing because of the weakness of my hip joint and bone by walking on clutches for a long time, I will have a stability problem and it won’t be in my hip for a long time than I expect.
Why I can’t decide for the operation is because of the age 25 mainly. I don’t want to regret that I take an operation. Now I am in the situation where I can chose by myself ‘do’ or ’not to do’. Then, if something bad should happen to me, I don’t think I can take care of myself. And I won’t take any responsible for my life and myself. That’s why I need to understand before I really take an operation. Once it’s done there is no going back.
Do you think i should take an operation?
Thank you.
When I was 13 years old, I was diagnosed as arthritis. The first bout of my disease was I got a hardened fluid in my knees and a stiff neck. I took Arthrocentesis. However I’ve experienced all kinds of physical examination, Doctor wouldn’t categorize my symptoms and my results as a specific kind of disease. And my symptoms were so remittent.
I have never got a name of the disease. When I entered high school, I often got a high fever which wouldn’t go down. I was in and out of the hospital. Around that time, i was diagnosed as possibly having an ‘Adult onset still disease’ once; still I haven’t ever got a pathognomonical salmon-pink rash. There was also the time I was in hospital as I got irritation of stomach and intestinum from the IV antibiotic drugs with which I was treated, while I was in hospital. I took an examination of intestinum with an endoscope and a gastro camera as well. And the cartilage in my hip joints has been worn and torn and now it’s all gone. The problem now is attrition between bone and bone. Well, now “Bone and bone arthritis” is happening here.
I can’t walk without clutches; still I can take a seat but have a difficulty to do that. ROM is getting narrow and I have been in so much but now pain is gone as they stick together. Now I can’t even drive a car unable me to go to work. I have been working full time but now it seems to difficult to work. Now I am on a sickness pay. I have been worrying about undergoing an operation.
I have been studying about the total hip replacement. I have been collecting the information from zimmer co., and the other home page. I am so interested in the young people who took the operation and also who can’t decide for the operation like me. The Doctor told me that he can’t perform hip resurfacing to me because of my born quantity problem. When i took the synovectomy at the age 20, I could talk to the patients who took THR for fifth times while i was in hospital and I thought I don’t want to be like them…
I first thought that I should undergo an operation to get higher QOL than now, so that I can back to work. But even if it stays in my hip for 30 years long, my age would be 55. And I guess 55 is still considerably young considering it’s before reaching the mandatory retirement age 60. I can’t be happy in a bed at the hospital with a severance pay. Thinking like that way, I feel like procrastinating an operation as long as possible. I don’t know how I make a decision considering the future. I can’t even sleep thinking about this ultimate choice ‘do’ or ’not to do’; since the doctor let me make a decision. My family doesn’t know much about this operation. No one is on my side. It is totally my problems and my responsibility.
The good product is only proved when it is actually placed in someone’s hip and if it works with no problem for more than 30 years in hip. But it doesn’t mean it goes well for everyone.In speculation, cutting edge products don’t always mean good. I am guessing because of the weakness of my hip joint and bone by walking on clutches for a long time, I will have a stability problem and it won’t be in my hip for a long time than I expect.
Why I can’t decide for the operation is because of the age 25 mainly. I don’t want to regret that I take an operation. Now I am in the situation where I can chose by myself ‘do’ or ’not to do’. Then, if something bad should happen to me, I don’t think I can take care of myself. And I won’t take any responsible for my life and myself. That’s why I need to understand before I really take an operation. Once it’s done there is no going back.
Do you think i should take an operation?
Thank you.