MRI Tomorrow!

[a1bummer]

Well after three years of troubles with both knees, I finally got to see the doctor I saw when all the problems started. He had an MRI done on the right knee and found a torn meniscus. He did surgery shortly after that. It felt good till things went south after a few weeks. It never got better. In the mean time my left knee started killing me again too. Another doctor, (thanks to workman's comp), had an MRI done on that one and said there was a degenerating meniscus, and there was nothing he could do about it. Now after all this time I was ale to see the original doctor. He looked at the MRI done by the other doctor and said it looks there was a tear in the meniscus all along. He ordered a rescan on both knees. In a way, I'll be pi$$ed if I find out that the left knee was torn all along, but then I'll be glad if it can be fixed.

 

After the last three years, and this summer, I'll have about enough of the doctors! I had a mammogram, (or is that a maogram), a few weeks ago. Luckily no cancer. Just a very tender, large, lump in my right breast. Tomorrow I get another MRI. This time on both knees. Who knows what that will lead to. More arguing with workman's comp I'm sure. Then on the 22nd I get to have surgery on my sinuses. Maybe after 38 years, I can finally breath through my nose and smell like a normal person.

 

[kbert777]

Good luck with the MRI, hope they are able to confirm a diagnosis...

 

I just had bi-lateral meniscus surgery done on Friday, because of the rehabilitation involved my surgeon did both knees at the same time. I had problems with both knees for a few years, the right one was constantly swollen, the left one would click so loud that you could hear it through the whole house. A few specialist looked at both knees over the years and could not find anything that they thought would justify any correction, I was send to pain management instead and pumped full of pain medication.

 

After some severe back surgery a little bit more then 2 years ago, which went very well, I managed to mention these knee problems to my spine surgeon during a recent follow-up; he referred me to a buddy of his that is a knee specialist. This guy took one look at the x-rays and MRI's and said he couldn't see anything because the x-ray would not show what he suspected and the MRI's were done wrong. He ordered some new MRI's with special instructions using a knee fixture and the results showed severe damage to all meniscus surfaces. He stated that the damage was far beyond physical therapy and that I needed surgery immediately.

 

Now, 5 days after the surgery the pain in my knees is almost completely gone, I can walk pain free with a walker. The surgery was not too bad, I walked out of the surgery center Friday afternoon by myself. A little bit of nerve pain in the left knee due to swelling, I have been burning through ice packs in rapid succession.

 

I wish I could say the same for the sinus surgery, had the surgery three time due to chronic sinusitis, no improvement and very painful.

 

Hang in there, hope it works out for you...

 

Klaus

[kenw]

Good Luck! Had surgery for a torn miniscus in my left knee done and it helped for a couple of weeks, then pain again. I grin and bear it cause I'm afraid of how they'll take care of it this time!

[mini-muffin]

Oh all those doctor visits. I'm so sorry to hear all that hope it all works out ok for the knee's and the sinus' and glad the mamo wasn't any worse then they normally are. You guys just think about having a vital part of you squeezed and see how you'd like it. Just saying if you can't sympathize with one just imagine if they did that to you somewhere.

 

Margaret