At least you got to your 50’s or so, hopefully before arthritis set in. I wasn’t as fortunate. I have Rheumatoid arthritis and let me tell you, it’s a B*#%. There are days that you don’t want to get out of bed, but you gotta work, so you take 600 mg of Ibuprofen, 500 mg of Acetaminophen, and top it with a strong cup of coffee. Then you move your complaining body whether it’s ready or not. I hate dealing with it, but I am stuck with it. At least I have a high pain tolerance........ Oh, and I have been fighting with this crap for 13 years......

Cathcam13 wrote:

Dang David,

Sorry to hear about the issues, Yes sir it does suck getting old. Things just start breaking doing normal everyday things like "Getting up from the dinner table"

I am now at the age of 47 and after the old fluid pump surgery and 1 stroke it just all downhill from there. So yeah I know what you mean all to damn well.

Ewok126 wrote:

Frank there is no punctuation on my flip phone

corey sellers wrote:

but he didn't recommend replacing both knees at the same time.

delta1 wrote:

I'm sorry, but you are only 47???



From some of your posts, I figgered you was older.... 🤦

dkeage wrote:

Can't think of a single good reason to have both knees replaced at the same time.

51 weeks was to close/soon.

Burner02 wrote:

When I had my first knee replaced there was a woman down the hall in her 60's who had both knees replaced at once.....she was a school teacher and had them both done in late spring so she would recuperate and be back to teaching by the fall.......I can' t imagine how she got around those first months......she must have been one tough cookie.8-[

RMAN4443 wrote:

Little tip Delta, Typically Pain is the bodies way of saying

" Stop you dumb chit, something ain't working right "

Its words not mine lol.

Ewok126 wrote:

I know...I was close to home when the left knee acted up, and should have just turned around...

delta1 wrote:

Quick update. I was suffering severe leg pain the past few days and tons of swelling, so I went back to the Doc this morning. He drained two large vials of fluid from the knee and gave me Cortisone shots. If things don't greatly improve in the next 2 weeks, he's going to order an MRI with the possibility of knee surgery. Fun, fun.

David (dpnewell)

Mrs. dpnewell wrote:

sincere wishes for a better prognosis than surgery, David.

Once in a while I think of your problem from a few years ago of a painful lump in your throat after smoking cigars...what ever happened with that issue?

frankj1 wrote: