Don't believe everything you hear about Finnish women....if they're even remotely attracted to ferrets that would give me great cause for comcern :o

Speedy recovery Dowly :up:

I have had a couple of knee surgery's myself. The first was while I was in the Army...the second to rebuild my knee after what the Army surgeon did.

Good luck with the surgery. At least you will get quality time with the Stug in.

And the wankers had the balls to post-pone the surgery to near future. Thanks alot. :nope:

Just got home from seeing my new surgeon (I think the change of surgeon was the reason for post-poning the op :hmmm:) and atleast this one said how the situation is; Surgery ASAP(read: MAYBE in three months) and artificial joint to the right knee in 2-3 years. Whoopdi-****ing-doo. :yeah:

PS. Atleast the surgeon was great, I'm sure if someone would look his blood sample with a microscope he'd see little Dr. Houses swimming around. :haha:

That is all. Carry on. :salute:

Try not to worry too much.....you've always got the other three legs to fall back on :DL

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Guess it's time for a little update.

They never called me to the surgery. So, my doctor here sent them a letter asking "WTF GUYS?!" and so I got called there again the 9th, this time to another doctor. Now, this doctor looked at them knees and pretty much said without saying: The last doctor was an idiot.

So, no surgery and no artificial knee caps in my future. Still kinda pondering whether this a good thing or not. :hmmm: Them knees are longways from normal, mornings are painful as hell, new drug called 'Humira' kinda helps, but not as much as the last one (Remicade).

And to top that all, my local doctor changed too, the 3rd new "specialist" in few years. :doh:

Ah well, time will tell me thinks. :hmmm:


That is all. :yep:

I had arthroscopic. I ripped my meniscus a few years ago. Honestly, the recovery period was not bad at all; I was up and moving in a few days. Granted, I wasn't doing jumping jacks, but the pain was not bad at all.

I really hope that you can get the prodecure, Dowly. It is like having new knees again.

Good god. Reminds me a bit of my recent (last week) surgery. Broke my right ankle (the fibula-the outer ankle) in November 2008. Surgery with orthopedic screws and a plate etc. Was supposed to see about removing them in late 2009 early 2010. Went to the specialist at the clinic I was referred to by the surgeon. He sent a notice to the hospital to set ,e up for surgery-the bone had healed very well but two of the screws had pushed out a bit and were very uncomfortable. No answer til returned to the first doc, he inquired and found the surgeon left the hospital and no one informedme. Well they finally saw me and set up another appointment to remove the screws-done under local anaesthetic and I got to hobble home. Anyway my foot feels fine and the stiches come out next week.

So what I am saying dowly is long waits are not unusual unless you are in cardiac arrest-but I really don't think this is the sort of thng you want to drag out. :hmmm:

It's my understanding that it can be a bit of a coin flip in terms of outcome. I think I saw a study that said that depending on the specific procedure (I think it was ACL repair), it was not all that different in the long run from doing nothing. In the short run, I think you'd be back on your feet sooner with than without.

Read up first, obviously.

Good luck:salute:

Finnish healthcare this slow?
This thread seems ancient

Sounds like you've been really messed around, this sort of thing happens a lot in the NHS. Had a problem whilst at uni, kept getting ill a lot, saw 4 different doctors and took 3 whole months to get me sorted:damn: