Paul Tomblin wrote:

In a previous article, Larry Dighera said:

On Fri, 29 Jul 2005 21:24:58 +0000 (UTC),
(Paul Tomblin) wrote in ::

I have chronic debilitating knee pain.

Have you considered knee replacement surgery?


I've considered every treatment regime under the sun, and they don't work
or wouldn't work. It's all soft tissue damage, so knee replacement
wouldn't work. Neither does accupunture, physio therapy, strengthening my
quads, glucosomine+chondritin, synvisc, cortisone, anti-inflammatories,
steroids, arthroscopic surgery, massage therapy, electrophoresis,
ultrasound, entophorisis(?), and a bunch of other treatments.

You must have missed something! :-)


No, at this point, I'm pretty resigned to the fact that I'm going to be in
pain for the rest of my life, and when the pain gets too great, I'm going
to end it.

I'm pretty much the same with my back. I guess the good thing is that
I've seemed to accomodate it better over time and often have to think
about it to notice the pain. The good thing is, my soft tissue damage
is to the disk and they are now in clinical trials with artificial
disks. If these work, I may consider them in another 10-15 years. I
don't want to lose mobility as with disk fusion and would rather deal
with the pain. However, the artifical disks look like they give you
your cake and let you eat it too ... although it is way too early to
know that with certainty.


Matt