Hi Mustache community,
My mom is 68 and had a knee replacement surgery in May. She is still in terrible pain and is worried that she's starting down the path of opioid addiction. She had the surgery done in LA because her brother lives there and she had a top-notch surgeon do it, but she lives near Albany NY, which is where she's been since June.
She is absolutely miserable and doesn't know what to do. She thought she'd feel better much sooner, and is very discouraged because her friends who had knee replacements were up and about in much less time.
She needs:
1. Recommendations for the right type of doctor to go see
2. Specific doctor recommendations in her area--Albany, NY (just figured I'd ask)
3. Encouragement that other people had extreme difficulty with their knee replacement surgeries as well, and eventually they healed.
4. Success stories that were pretty rough going there for a long while (see #3)
5. Pain management without opioids
Look, I know these are tall orders on a financial independence board, but I once got some incredibly good advice from several actual anaesthesiologists when I started a thread about epidurals, so I thought I'd give it a shot.
BTW...my mom is kind of crotchety and grumpy and a pretty terrible patient, which I'm sure is at least part of the problem.
Thanks for any help. Love this board.