I have a knee problem and the doctor has today referred me to a knee specialist. Luckily I have private medical insurance thank to the company I work for. Does anyone know what sort of timescale I can expect to seeing a specialist, and then having surgery if needed.
Any advice would be welcomed at this miserabl time.
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I had knee arthroscopy via Bupa (work perk) about 8 years ago. From Doctor's referral to surgery was 2 weeks, was ski-ing 4 weeks afterwards!
However, 8 years later am going through same thing again but via NHS (company stopped the Bupa during recession). Now have to wait 2-3 months for op! Even worse, depending on what they find (or not) behind the kneecap, it might be the end of my long-distance running goals, sigh
Hope yours goes well & you recover quickly.
So, yet another year on - this time surgeon said, ok physio hasn't worked - surgery booked in for a couple of weeks later.
He is now 6 weeks post op but isn't allowed to run for another 6 weeks. He had severe patellar tendonitis in both knees.
Thanks everyone. Much appreciated.
Trev (aka Fat Boy Slow)
He was given one leg squat type exercises to do - he had to do 100s every day. This did help a little bit - it reduced the pain so that he wasn't waking up in the middle of the night with it. After a year of that - he had another MRI and the consultant conceded that the inflammation was still massive and obvious and so he recommended surgery.
So, 2 years of being very good doing his physio to the point of obsession- then surgery.
He had topaz ablation (RF probe) which removed sections of the tendon that were the worst affected. Fingers crossed it will let him run/cycle again. Football is now banned in our house!!!!!!!
He would be happy just to get back to anything pain free.