Aautoimmune disease, lactic acid and thiamine...

[mostlylurking]

That’s a disappointing outcome for a surgery theoretically intended to preserve and improve mobility. A good friend of mine (in her 70’s) had to have her knee replacement, replaced. Took years to find a surgeon who would repair the first surgeons work. The recovery was brutal and is still ongoing after two years. They also canceled her PT during covid lockdowns and set her back months.

My friend's sister-in-law had her first knee replacement done about 20 years back when she was in her early fifties. The surgeon put in a replacement joint that was too big. The poor woman struggled along for about 10 years before she was able to get a surgeon to put in the right size joint replacement. But the pain did not go away. Last I heard, they had put in a permanent morphine drip so she can bare the pain. The bastards destroyed her life.