Help! Arthritis relief needed!!!!!!!
I hear you my brother, they took me off all mine also and won’t let me take them before 1 year because I had internal bleeding a week after surgery and had to go back into intensive care for a week.
I decided to try a product called Ortho-Visc, it is an injection that lubricates the joint.
That along with double glucosamine doses, 10 plus Tylenols a day, I survived and as the weight started coming off it has really gotten better.
I haven’t jogged in 25 years and was able to do 15 minutes the other day without much pain, it is amazing what losing an extra 100 plus pounds can do.
Hang in there.
Bret
Hi Dale,
Both of my knees are shot and I am on Social Security disability because of them and my back has problems too. I have been on Cortisone shots for a couple of years. They really do help me, but everyone is different. I tried Syn-Visc shots (which is made from chicken cartilage) and boy did I take a ribbing for those. I've heard every kind of chicken joke there is. But I had no relief with those, plus you have to go for 3 shots in each knee over a 2 week period. The cortisone is only 1 shot in each knee and after 2 days you start to feel the relief. They don't really hurt you just feel a pressure in the knee when they inject the cortisone. I was going for these every 4 months like clockwork, but since I'm down 85 lbs I now was able to hold out for 8 months. If your Dr is offering to give you the cortisone shots try it they're not that bad and they could offer you some relief. Take it from someone who has been taking them for about 3 years now. Whatever you decide good luck, I know what bad knees feel like. Bye the way I also have nerve damage in both feet from my Diabetes. So between the knees (which hurt worse at night and the nerve damage it gets very uncomfortable at nightand my DR also gives me Vicodin to help me with that. I have to take 6 every night to feel comfortable enough to sleep. Good luck, any other questions just give me a shout. Dan
Many are told to avoid them early on
And certainly get them out of your system before surgery
To keep blood clotting appropriately.
If you are in pain though, let him know
And ask him to do something about it.
The loss of weight alone gave me “New-Knees.”
Hope the Greatest for you as well.
Best Wishes-
Dx
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