@whitewave , I did full on keto for 7 months this year, and low carb since. I lose 13lbs on average each month. The goal is to become fat-adapted, which takes, on average, 6 weeks. On your average calorie controlled diet, that's about when your weight loss slows down. With keto, that's when it ramps up. I highly recommend it.
I'm thinking about doing stem cell. Did you see an improvement after you did it? You said it's better than the other knee, but I wasn't sure if it started better in the first place. Just out of curiosity, why did they repair the meniscus if they were going to do TKR? Just out of curiosity, if you don't mind sharing. I don't actually know anyone apart from my sister who has had TKR, and she's back in Australia and I haven't seen her for over a decade. And I don't know *anyone* who has done stem cell. So any and all info would be very helpful.
Ok so what happened is last year (February 2019), my right knee destabilized and I pushed through the pain not realizing I could cause further damage. I tore my meniscus and that in turn caused a hairline fracture on my right upper tibia. So I broke my leg. I caused it.
I had to wait for the Tibia to repair and then I had meniscus surgery and stem cell infusion from the bone marrow in my hip. We did this because I have a metal allergy and we were hoping to get a far as we could without having to replace the knee.
The stem cell part to me was no big deal, but they did it while I was under anesthesia for the meniscus repair.
Then I did my rehab, got Bell’s palsy, went to NYC and came back with flu A and then the pandemic hit lol.
This left one went kaput probably in June, but I’ve been getting cortisone injections and taking pain meds etc. By 6 pm my legs crap out from the pain and I literally can do no more standing or walking.
DH was thinking the left knee might have been bursitis, and I was clinging to that and it didn’t occur to me that despite the pain and what was actually happening, that this knee broke also. I did describe it to the PA on Monday as my left knee felt “destroyed”.
The problem was, I am so unsteady, for my xrays in the summer, I wobbled when I was supposed to be putting weight on my left knee, so that X-ray looked perfect.
They redid my xrays on Monday because he said they didn’t match what I was describing, so this time they gave me something to hold on to so I could stand correctly, and that is when they could see my left knee is gone also.
He said the left hurts more because the right is already gone whereas the left is angry and inflamed and is currently in a destructing pattern. He said if they did one at a time, they would do the most symptomatic one first, which is the left one.
I got another cortisone shot and now it doesn’t hurt, but last time it only lasted 3-4 weeks.
He said I can’t do any exercise because anything I do is going to make it worse.
So I’m completely stuck with needing to exercise to lose weight from the gastric sleeve (and I mean getting my activity level up to a normal person) and now I can’t do that.
So I’m disgusted, am depressed, having a pity party and bought myself some pity party items, including a pair of sea of Cortez baroque pearl earrings to match the necklace I made with @yssie’s extra pearls.
What was the question? Lol. Did I answer it? If not, please redirect...
Oh, on X-ray, the right is awful looking.... literally looks like crushed and mashed bone on crushed and mashed bone. I’ll see if I can find the pic. That is the one I did stem cells on. It doesn’t bother me nearly as much as the left, which looks much better on X-ray but hurts a lot more.
