Hello to everyone.
I'm finally getting back to the internet. I've been pretty occupied by other things.
I wanted to give an update without going into too much detail.
It started when my brother had a friend call him about one of his neighbors being wakened by police at their house at a very early hour. The neighbor didn't recognize my name when the police asked since my brother is a step brother and has a different last name. I guess it was all really weird and my brother freaked out.
He had me see his doctor and we discussed my knee problems and other things. After he found out the medications I was taking from my doctor, he said any one of them alone can give some people the thoughts I was having, but the combination I was taking was a disaster and shouldn't have been prescribed together. He changed the medications and eliminated a few that he said were unnecessary.
He then set an appointment to have a mri of my knee done so he could see what was happening. He found that there was a tear in the cartilage and a tear in the synovium with inflammation. He scheduled an appointment for a couple days later to do an arthoscopy to repair the problems. It was an out patient procedure and didn't take that long considering. He said I might not regain full use or 100% due to the damage, but it should be close.
That was a couple days ago and I can't believe how much better my knee feels. It is almost pain free and should improve as it heals and I can put weight on it without wanting to rip my hair out.
So all in all, I'm feeling much better and I'm looking forward to being able to get around again.
I'm actually going to dinner with my wonderful family tonight.
Thank you for tolerating my long post.
I'm finally getting back to the internet. I've been pretty occupied by other things.
I wanted to give an update without going into too much detail.
It started when my brother had a friend call him about one of his neighbors being wakened by police at their house at a very early hour. The neighbor didn't recognize my name when the police asked since my brother is a step brother and has a different last name. I guess it was all really weird and my brother freaked out.
He had me see his doctor and we discussed my knee problems and other things. After he found out the medications I was taking from my doctor, he said any one of them alone can give some people the thoughts I was having, but the combination I was taking was a disaster and shouldn't have been prescribed together. He changed the medications and eliminated a few that he said were unnecessary.
He then set an appointment to have a mri of my knee done so he could see what was happening. He found that there was a tear in the cartilage and a tear in the synovium with inflammation. He scheduled an appointment for a couple days later to do an arthoscopy to repair the problems. It was an out patient procedure and didn't take that long considering. He said I might not regain full use or 100% due to the damage, but it should be close.
That was a couple days ago and I can't believe how much better my knee feels. It is almost pain free and should improve as it heals and I can put weight on it without wanting to rip my hair out.
So all in all, I'm feeling much better and I'm looking forward to being able to get around again.
I'm actually going to dinner with my wonderful family tonight.
Thank you for tolerating my long post.
