In my right knee, the pain is excruciating. Both on the knee cap, where the knee cap meets the bone on the bottom of the knee, and on both sides of the knee cap. When I try to stand it almost feels as if the bone is broken, once I stand the pain diminishes somewhat until I try to bend the knee to walk down or up stairs.
I am 66. Believe me when I say the doctor I have thru my Medicare Supplement is worthless. He has referred me to an orthopedist who is equally uninterested in the fact that I am constantly in tears from this excruciating pain.
I have to work for at least 5 more years before I can retire. While I sit at a computer for 7 hours, I do have to stand up and walk around the office to deliver documents.
Please help me try to reach the correct type of doctor to find out what to do with this pain, and how to treat the cause.
Thank you for any help you can give me.
I see a rhumatologist.
he injects my knee cap with orthovisc.
knee pain at any age hurts really bad.
my first injury was at age 12 and final couldn't use the knee in 2002. it's been hell!
but www.orthovisc.com those injections gave me back the synvical fluid under my knee cap.
you have to be assertive with your doctor.
TELL HIM– DON'T ASK
TELL HIM TO PUT IT IN WRITING ON YOUR MEDICAL CHART THAT YOU ARE REQUESTIONG AN MRI FOR BOTH KNEES.
**this is how to make a doctor do things for you!****
the doctor WILL WRITE YOU THE REFERRAL FOR MRI– if he puts in your chart that you requested it in writing and ask for a copy of your medical records, he will be open to law suit, no doctor wants this!!
MY DAD'S ONCOLOGIST TAUGHT ME HOW TO BULLY MY DOCTOR'S INTO REFERAL'S AND TEST!!
TELL THEM TO PUT IN WRITING THAT YOU ARE REQUESTING A HANDICAP PARKING PERMIT.
TELL THEM THAT YOU ARE REQUESTING THAT THEY PUT IN WRITING IN YOUR MEDICAL RECORDS THAT YOU ARE REQUESTING A REFERAL FOR AN ORTHOPEDIC SURGEON.
SAME WITH PAIN MANAGMENT MEDS!!!
if it hurts don't do it!
avoid stairs– as if you could use them!!
GET A KNEE BRACE THAT HAS A METAL HINGE.
IT REALLY HELPED ME!!
IT'S THE ONLY WAY I COULD WALK!!
**i was in bed and couldn't stand on my knee for 6 months, before i finally got the doctor to order tests, to see a specialist etc.
i had to demand it! don't settle for less.
and ask for a copy of your medical records!!
NO DOCTOR WANTS YOU TO HAVE THOSE, BUT THEY ARE YOUR LEGAL RIGHT!!! THEY ARE OPEN TO YOU.
**WHEN YOU DO ASK, THE DOCTOR WILL ORDER THE TESTS YOU REQUEST AND THE REFERALS YOU NEED.
***No doctor, how bad or good they are, wants it in writing that they didn't do what a patient "requested to put in writing" if they refuse your request, TELL THEM TO PUT THAT IN YOUR CHART THAT THEY ARE REFUSING TO REFER YOU OR REFUSING TO ORDER YOU AN MRI ON YOUR KNEE.
**THAT'S HOW TO GET THE DOCTOR OFF HIS BUTT, AND YOU INTO WHERE YOU NEED TO BE!!*********
also be a good student, and study up on your knees, and know what you want to request.
do your research and home work.
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BE PROACTIVE!!!
I know it's hard, cuz we supposed to trust the doctors.
but we know our bodies best!!
I wish you the very best of luck!
get that MRI– see a Rhumatologist & Ortho-pedic Surgeon.
do your homework, go to your current doctor with a list
AND IT'S BEST TO TAKE SOMEONE IN THE EXAM ROOM WITH YOU!! AND HAVE THEM TAKE NOTES!!
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