Anyone Here Have Knee Problems? Need Some Advice
I'm looking for some advice. My 72 year old Mom has been having trouble for years with her knees. She is still working(part time) but her knees are getting worse. She is over weight plus has type 2 diabetes. She recently went to a specialist and he performed Euflexxa injections in her knee. She had three treatments. After the first injection she experienced a lot of pain. The Doctor said this was normal.She went in for a second injection a week later and the next day was in even worse shape.He had to prescribe some pain pills for her it was so bad. Against her wishes, he talked her into the third and final series of injections.This time around along with the pain pills,it was not so bad. Well, that was a month ago and she says the knees do not feel any better (and on some days they feel even worse)
Her Primary Doctor suggested knee replacement surgery.She is terrified of this. A) she would have to take a lot of time off work and second she worries about having surgery at her age (plus being diabetic)
I have suggested Acupuncture,even though I am sure insurance won't cover it I've offered to pay for a session just to see if it works.Another option I have heard of is Cortizone injections.
My question is, has anyone experienced a similar problem? If so, were the results successful? I really would like to see her get some relief. She has some stairs to climb and she describes the bones crunching(bone on bone) when she steps up or puts pressure on her knees.
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I think it was 6 weeks before I was driving again.
But my walking improved overnight. The pain was gone and it felt great.
If possible, she should try to lose some weight; that will help the recovery. Legs are heavy at the best of times.
I don't regret having done it!
Good luck...
but for a different problem, not knees. They too, were very painful and didn't help a bit! 
Sorry that I came across your post of April 30, 07:55 PM only now.
I have osteoporosis, arthritis in my right hip-joint and lower spine,
as well as a slight sliding forward of vertebra Lumbar 3 over Lumbar 4
("spondylolisthesis"
, and several other symptoms of the lower-spine
nerve roots being compressed because of loss of cartilage between
the vertebral joints - including sciatica in the right side.
I had also received cortisone shots which relieved pain for about
24 hours only. Cortisone has a lot of side-effects, so I stopped
after 5 shots (one every 2 weeks). I had also gone through taking
pain medications, etc...
Then I came across "EZorb" while surfing on the Internet. It's
made by the Elixir Industry, and sold by them alone. One can
get it only by writing or phoning this company directly. I tried it,
and within 3 weeks the pain in my hip and lower-back decreased
noticeably. Within 3 months I had no longer any pain at all when
I was sitting in a comfortable arm-chair or lying down in bed.
I began moving carefully and walking with the help of canes.
I found that walking with a walker was the best. With a
walker or leaning on a cart when shopping in a super-market,
I could walk with no pain at all.
I realized I needed exercise badly to keep healthy, and I was
too eager. I started at 200 yards a day. Within a month I
was doing 1-1/4 miles. (I had been walking 2 miles every day
for years before I got this bone ailment). Then I had a
relapse. Well, I learned my lesson. After two months I
started walking again, but this time I increased the distance
by 200 yards once a month only.
When I reached a mile, one day I had a fall -- right on my
lower back. So after another month, I had to start from
the beginning again. But the fall hurt my lower-back only.
My right-hip was (and still is) free from pain. The sciatica
is gone. My spondylolisthesis, however, will take years.
The reason is that so much intra-articular cartilage has
to be built back. This will take a long time. I am so glad
that my hip arthritis hasn't come back in 1-1/2 years. I
consider it as at least half-way cured. The hip-joint pain was
much stronger than the lower-back pain. I can now walk
for maybe 50 yards without any support (not even a cane)
before the pain in my lower-back starts. So, there is
improvement even there.
EZorb not only builds calcium into bones, it also stimulate
the formation of cartilage. I also take Glucoseamine to
increase the formation of cartilage.
It's great not to be in pain all the time.
"EZorb" is the brand name of a calcium compound "anhydrous
calcium aspartate" discovered by Elixir Industry. When people
get old, the usual calcium compounds are no longer absorbed
and built into the skeletal system, even when they take large
amounts of Vit. D3, magnesium...etc... as I had been doing
for years before my problems began. For some it starts sooner,
for others later. But it is inevitable if one lives long enough.
But EZorb is absorbed and built into the bones at any age.
Elixir INdustry claims that 92% of it is absorbed -- regardless
of one's age. And it has no side-effects that many of the
other calcium compounds do.
Just google "EZorb." The very first article from Elixir Industry
gives you all the necessary information. They even have a
special department that will answer all questions, including
medical and technical ones, by phone, email, or regular mail.
EZorb is alternative medicine. No Standard medicine M.D.
will recommend it. In fact, most of them know nothing
about it. No prescription is needed. I believe that
if, say, Standard Medicine can successfully treat 70% of all
known ilnesses, and Alternative Medicine can add 10% more
-- Why not? 80% is better than 70%, isn't it?
EZorb is working for me. I hope it will work for your mother, too.
I wish her all the best.
P.S. I would suggest to everyone in his/her 60s and older to
have a bone-density x-ray done, just to check if osteopenia
or osteoporosis is already there. In my opinion, so many of
the bone ailments of old-age can be prevented by simply taking
EZorb. I find the old adage "An ounce of prevention is better
than a pound of cure" to be very true.
There is another effective calcium compound called "Bone-Up"
that's available over the counter in any "Vitamin Shoppe" or
other drug stores. It's made in Australia. A friend of mine
uses it, and finds it successful. She had gone to a
regular bone specialist for over a year for a hairline fracture in
a vertebra, with no improvement. A friend told her about
Bone-Up. She tried it, and it worked. She had no more pain
within 2 months. And x-rays showed that the fracture had
healed. I have no personal experience with it. I am satisfied
with EZorb. "Bone-Up" does not also stimulate the growth of
cartilage.
I think Standard Medicine and Alternative Medicine should begin
to join hands, instead of ignoring one another.
