Thursday, February 16, 2012

My knee hurts, do I have arthritis?

One of the first questions I sometimes hear from people who have knee pain is: Doc, do you think it is arthritis?  The answer is, invariably, please tell me more about your pain.  There are many causes of knee pain and arriving at an accurate diagnosis begins with a full, comprehensive medi...
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roxanne Simpkins
3/21/09 1:45pm

Hi I have osteoarthris in the knee, since I was 16 years of age.. I had 5 knee surgeries

and every knee surgery I had Lasted 8 years and then I would have to go through it again. This last surgery I had was in 1997 and  now no surgeries yet. 12 years now

and I must be doing something right. But I need to know what that is. Last summer

I standed along period of time and all day and it started to swell with fluid again and

when I rested, all night it went away in 2 days, I had to stay seated and rest.

Isn't that weird. I had the best knee doctor in Nashville, now he is retired, he

told me what to do, and now I haven't had a problem for now, But I am scared it will

do it again, so I try not to do alot of things to stand up a long period of time.

So, give me a answer on this please.

 

Thanks Roxanne Simpkins

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