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Originally Posted by Slava
Wait, are you suggesting it's faster than that? I understand that in one case, someone had theirs done sooner, but this was not even close to my wife's experience. First, they take every angle to try to talk you out of the surgery in the first place. Then you get referred to the surgeon, and the appointment there is somewhere around the 15-18 month mark. Then, you have to wait until the surgery.
I understand that this is "elective" because it's not life-threatening or things of that nature. But the impact on people's quality of life cannot be debated either. And this is the issue with that system today. We have these elective surgeries that people want done, because the problems they're having are an enormous impact on their lives, despite that surgery being "optional". I put those words in quotes because it is questionable how optional those surgeries are for the individual. You can live without the knee replacement, you just happen to be in your forties and can't walk down a flight of stairs easily or a slight incline. So, you're not dying from this, and I suppose that is why it's elective.
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Woah, not my experience at all.
I'm getting surgery in a few weeks, which would be 13.5 months after buggering my knee, and four months after the surgical referral. But yeah, they tried cortisone, then some kind of acid injection, then an option for a pair of PRP injections was presented, but I expressed my doubts and concerns if those would work if the others only offered a few day/weeks relief, so the referral went out late June. Plus the wait times to get the shots was weeks to months.
I suspect what sped things up with getting into the sports medicine doc was paying for an MRI last fall. I'd still be waiting for that (Oct 2025 was my date!!), and don't know if I'd even have been seen by a sports doc yet had I not jumped on that. Seems to be a
huge bottleneck there.
Meniscus repair, for what it's worth.