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Originally Posted by rhsgypsylady
He has needed a knee replacement for many years and he kept putting it off, saying when it gets to where I can’t walk I’ll have it done. Now he is at that point, but because of his heart (CHF) the doctors will not do the surgery. They don’t think his heart would make it thru the surgery and if it did, they don’t think he can endure the painful and necessary rehab. He’s wishing he’d gone ahead and had the surgery when he could. So if anyone is putting off knee replacement, my advice would be to get it done.
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Gypsy .. I'm so sorry to hear that your husband is in constant pain. That makes life difficult for both of you.
That is great advice - to have surgery while you're physically still able. I hadn't thought of it like that .. I guess I assumed the longer you wait, the better off you are because new knees don't last forever. We all assume we've got unlimited healthy time ahead which is really nuts when you're "getting on". We all tend to procrastinate and delay such procedures. This is a good wake-up call.
I had no idea that Synvisc cost $2,000 for both knees. We have medical insurance, but that is highway robbery, for a procedure that appears not to work for a lot of people.