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In reply to Post #36
Thank you 🙏
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In reply to Post #32
wish you a speedy recovery
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In reply to Post #33
Thank you 🙏
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In reply to Post #32
Great news mate and all the best in your recovery.
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Well today was the day of surgery, went down to theatre about 17.20
It’s been a long, just got home about 11pm
Good news all went well, said no signs of arthritis and everything else is ok with my knee
Now for the recovery and just glad am now sorted
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Thank you for the replies
Received phone call today and booked back in for Thursday 21st July
Here’s hoping 🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞
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In reply to Post #27
Sorry to hear this and hope you’re sorted soon.
Keep those spirits up and the very best of luck.
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In reply to Post #27
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Update
Pissed right off 😤
Yesterday was the day of surgery, had to be at hospital for 11am. It’s approx 1hr 45 drive for me.
Just about at junction on motorway to turn off ( hospital only 5/10mins from motorway) get a phone call to say surgery cancelled due to in house doctor having tested positive for Covid
Haven’t a clue now what’s going on, expecting a phone call yesterday but nothing
I phoned them today with a call back this afternoon saying we’ll let you know but could be August which am not happy about
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In reply to Post #24
Yeh pretty much, my knee caps sit too high, so instead of running in the groove they run over the Ridge at certain points of motion.and can pop out easily with careless movements(subluxation) Add to that a fair bit of wear elsewhere and it adds up to near constant joint effusions and calcific tendonitis.
There is a very expensive op to correct the patella alta, with a very long recovery and a not great success rate. Even if I could afford it, and afford 18 months off work I probably wouldn't take the risk
I've just had to learn to manage it.
It took nearly 18 months of "you just need to strengthen your quadriceps""eat these naproxin like sweeties""let's try cortisone" to find all that out 
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In reply to Post #23
Are you definitely sure it’s that bad ?
I was told I had bone on bone and at 50 you won’t get a new knee ( just keep taking tablets). That was from X-ray after 1st person on phone told me nothings wrong 😤
MRI proved it was just a tear
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In reply to Post #23
Yeah that’s why I waited for the MRI results 1st then them asking me where I wanted referral to.
Next time owt happens like this I will be pushing harder next time at doctors.
What I’ve gone through in the last 6 months is unreal with my knee and Thyroid with not being able to see anyone or anyone phoning you back
Up to 15k if I needed knee replacement I was told on the phone consultation as I had mentioned bone on bone but luckily I haven’t
Life is all wrong when you’ve worked all your life and paid taxes
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In reply to Post #22
Thanks that's a lot less than I thought, but if I'd gone at the start of my problems it would have meant forking out for ultrasound and mri on top of that. Only to find out they can't do much bar replace the knees, which isn't an option for a 30 something tradesman.
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In reply to Post #21
Yeah no problem
£250 for the face to face consultation with a pre consultation phone call
Cost of the operation is £4300
Just wish now I’d done it sooner after being messed about
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In reply to Post #18
Do you mind sharing how much it's costing you?
Glad to know they found and are going to fix the problem so quickly
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In reply to Post #19
Thank you
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In reply to Post #18
Had torn meniscus myself and after an operation around 4-5 years ago other than after the surgeon had followed up afterwards and me telling him of a burning sensation he sorted that out no problem (think it was an injection) I’ve had no issues at all.
Good luck.
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Sorry for a late update and thanks all for the replies
I seen the consultant on Wednesday gone (8th) got dates mixed up in one of my 1st posts.
Came out feeling a lot better, wife even said she seen the change in me just talking to him.
Turns out I haven’t bone on bone rubbing, he can’t understand why I’ve been told that and it turns out to be ( luckily I think) a torn meniscus which I was told from the MRI scan
So I’ve booked for him to carry out the operation which is in early July, amazing how fast you get get something done when you are paying for it yourself
Just started me thinking I’d wish I’d done it sooner after being messed about for so long trying/fighting to get to see a doctor which never happened
Fingers crossed 🤞 all goes ok
Thanks again
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If you can afford it, then do it.
Ten + years of Tory rule has brought the NHS (and many other social services funded through our taxes) to it's knees.
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Had years of knee giving way and only wish I had kept mithering the NHS much more than what I originally did because once I began to then it was about 12 months thereafter that I had an operation.
Diagnosis. Torn meniscus. Operated on and no problems since which was around 7-8 years ago.
I used to work nights and get up out of bed and fall over as my knee would crack and give way. I always went up the hospital (recorded for absentee purposes too) and would lay the pain on thick and fast (was painful anyway and would knock me sick) because without doing that then you’d never get sorted.
Was carried out privately but funded by the NHS, carried out in a private hospital by a surgeon who also works for the NHS.
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In reply to Post #13
Exactly this.
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In reply to Post #13
Very true, the surgeon I eventually saw about my knees said if you had paid you would have seen me a year earlier. Nothing he could do for me unfortunately, and I never even got a believable explanation of how I could do a sub 3 hour London to Brighton in June, be even fitter by September, then have to lock my knees and rock my hips to take a flight of stairs by december 
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When going private the chances is it will be the same surgeon providing the treatment as it would be on the NHS just doing it on overtime.
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In reply to Post #1
The way I see it, if you are 50, I am assuming, forgive me you’re not yet retired?
If this persistent pain is effective your ability to work, then the longer it’s left, the more of a financial consequence there may be and as such, private would in effect be limiting that. Have you been quoted for the operation? Frequently the NHS is paying private practice to alleviate waiting times etc could this be an. Option?
Sorry to hear of your circumstance
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Thanks again for the replies
I’ll have to wait and see what’s said when I go for my consultation and take it from there
Hopefully it’s not something to serious 🤞
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In reply to Post #8
I was the same, doctor after doctor, nothing wrong with your really, well I wouldn’t be here if there wasn’t would I you cock. In the end I said **** it, I would see a specialist. Saw the specialist, main man in the department at the time, paid for the consultation myself but he got me though on the NHS, on a cancellation at the time
Maybe worth a try?
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In reply to Post #8
1725,it's wrong mate on all levels..you've paid all your life into a system that's corrupt and supports people that have paid nothing ..
The gap widens between the haves and have nots,the elites in what ever shape or form progress, I see it every day ..
In another sphere,2.5 million pound houses ,locals on the breadline,second homes rule..
Homelessness everywhere,many through no fault of their own..
Broken Britain,greedy corrupt system ..and still more people coming into this small overpopulated island..
It's what the elites want,servitude and control by fear,fear of no money ,or job ,or health provision, fear and scaremongering..!
I hope you sort your knee out mate..
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It’s terrible the way things are
I shouldn’t have to pay with the taxes I’ve paid over the years, Worked since the day I left school and hardly been off work
Never been off with my knee but seen folk going off with less and wonder who’s right.
Never really needed doctors help until last couple off years (now 50) I can’t get an appointment and me being asked afterwards where I want referred to after MRI results
How’s someone supposed to know that for someone who’s never bothered about anything before
Was told it will be about 12 months wait on NHS
But you can get sorted in 6 weeks for paying.
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All planned eh Paul..not much happens by chance.. and Tony,same as my boss,right knee replacement,private hospital ,no idea of cost ,but he was walking again in three weeks..huge scar though...he's probably out on his bike right now..
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In reply to Post #1
One of my wife's relatives has just paid for a knee op,he was in so much pain he could not take anymore.Im not sure what was exactly wrong but it cost him over 15grand
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In reply to Post #3
That’s the standard technique of privatization: defund, make sure things don’t work, people get angry, you hand it over to private capital.
Noam Chomsky,
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Thanks for the replies
I’ve already had a phone consultation and have a face to face appointment week after next
If i agree to what’s needed at next appointment it will be 6 weeks i was told yesterday
They can have access to my x-ray/mri scan results
Doctors been an absolute waste of time, can’t believe I’ve had to basically force them to make a appointment and then end up at hospital because I couldn’t be seen by a Gp
Looking at 4.5k up to 15k for knee replacement hopefully don’t need that
Wife had a bit of a shock a cost but said I understand with what you’ve gone/going through
Thanks again
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If money allows,I'd definitely go private,there's nothing worse than a long term injury and associated pain..which if left untreated could be made worse..
I had an injury,the NHS ,was very very poor ,the dithering made the situation worse..I went private,cost £145, for an xray,three short £30 sessions afterwards,plus I didn't need a operation like I was initially told..luckily ,I was able to exercise my way out of the issue..but others may not have been so lucky..
I thought the NHS was meant to be accessible to all,but nowadays ,this is not the case..and as a side note,I hear of someone local to us ,who died of cancer,through late diagnosis ,ie the doctors refused to look at them,...but that's another issue..
I will say one thing ,a lot of people have lost faith in the NHS,they good at doing tic tok dance moves though..
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In reply to Post #1
You could see a private consultant, he will have access to your notes and what they have detailed so far, he can make an accurate diagnosis if he is satisfied with the information he has. Sounds like the NHS have told you this though?
If you pay private for an operation I guess you are looking at a few K. It will be a few hundred quid for a consultation. The benefit is, if the consultant can do the operation you will get in quicker since he will be doing the op. Otherwise it’s a wait on the NHS
If it bothers you that bad, do it, I once did with a sinus problem, was getting nowhere at the time
Hope this helps mate and all the best with it
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Hi all since late August last year I’ve suffered with knee pain
I’ve been unable to get to see a doctor 😤
Walk in to hospital to be told to make appointment through doctors so I did
Got sent for a x-ray end off November
Results after me phoning them, nothing wrong 😤
Phoned again on new year, you can have a call back, ok
Got told bone on bone rubbing,
how do you know that ?
From the x ray
But I was told nothing wrong from the x ray
Take this and that 😤😤
Made another appointment and got sent to hospital
Appointment made for mri scan
Results couple of weeks ago are torn medial meniscus and something wrong with medial collateral ligament
Week later, where do you want referred too. How do I know that 😤😤
50 year old, hardly ever been doctors, paid a fortune in taxes and pissed off
Never actually seen a doctor because I couldn’t get an appointment
All I seen was two nurses who both said that doesn’t look right. One sent me for x ray other for mri scan
Know life’s been ***** for everyone over the last couple of years
But would you consider going private and paying to get yer life back ?
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