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chondromalacia - 4/23/2011 4:50:55 PM

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this is about as off topic as you can get, LOL anyone out there have any dealings with chondromalacia? I go to the local VA medical center and

..well let's just say I have become a decent medical expert thanks to the web. anyone had surgery to correct the problem? that looks like my next move since exercises and pain meds have done nothing to help. thanks y'all.

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RE: chondromalacia - 4/23/2011 5:25:11 PM

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I haven't had any personal experience with your particular ailment, but despite working in the healthcare field (or maybe because of it) I would caution against surgery until you have thoroughly investigated it and talked to more than a couple of physicians about it. Not surgeons though. They are a little too knife happy in my opinion. Okay, okay, I'm making unfair and unsubstantiated generalizations here.

What I do have personal experience with is back pain. I have a fractured vertebra from a car accident I was in as a kid. I've had some pretty bad bouts of pain over the years. I'm told I have degenerative disc disease now, as a result of the earlier injury. However, I haven't had any serious pain (knock on wood) since I went through physical therapy after my last "episode". And that was quite a number of years ago. I can't say it will work for you, but how about giving physical therapy a try?

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RE: chondromalacia - 4/23/2011 6:15:56 PM

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this is about as off topic as you can get, LOL anyone out there have any dealings with chondromalacia? I go to the local VA medical center and ..well let's just say I have become a decent medical expert thanks to the web. anyone had surgery to correct the problem? that looks like my next move since exercises and pain meds have done nothing to help. thanks y'all.

I have it. A few years ago it was getting pretty bad, and my doctor recommended I get started on chondroitin and glucosamine to see if i could slow it down a bit. I picked some up at GNC, and it did work pretty well, but after a couple of years it was getting kind of ragged again.

Then a few months ago, I ran out of the stuff from GNC, and couldn't make it down there. So I bought a bottle of Equaline chondroitin, glucosamine, and MSM complex, and it works like a charm. A year ago at this time, I literally couldn't walk more than a single city block at a time. Now, I bike 20 or 30 miles a day, or hike several miles on rough, hilly terrain. I climb about 50 or 60 flights of stairs a day 2 or 3 days a week at the office just for the hell of it, and I rarely have any discomfort in my knee at all, let alone pain. I gave up rollerblading and hockey because I didn't see the point in tempting fate, but I'm pretty active regardless, and the longer i can keep this going the better the artificial knee that I'll eventually wind up with. One in the morning, one in the evening, and a full day of doing whatever I want in between.

Maybe yours is beyond the point where it will do you any good, but you might want to consider it. What kind of exercises are you doing, by the way?

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RE: chondromalacia - 4/23/2011 6:51:28 PM

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I've had it since HS. Wrestled and coached with it for a decade.
The last 18 years or so, Glucosamine and Chondroitin is about the only thing that keeps me walking. I've had several docs want to go in and scrape out the bad cartilage but I keep putting them off.

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RE: chondromalacia - 4/23/2011 8:42:53 PM

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tried glucosamine past 2 months and I can't see any improvement. it seems to be worse each day. hardly able to go up/down stairs, sleep at night, it's in both knees. they buckle every once in a while and a few days ago they took turns locking up on me

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RE: chondromalacia - 4/23/2011 8:53:25 PM

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tried glucosamine past 2 months and I can't see any improvement. it seems to be worse each day. hardly able to go up/down stairs, sleep at night, it's in both knees. they buckle every once in a while and a few days ago they took turns locking up on me

It takes a couple of months for the stuff to work. It also, according to My dad's orthopedist, doesn't work for everyone. You might be one of the unlucky ones. I hope not.

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RE: chondromalacia - 4/24/2011 4:41:28 AM

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That may be what I had. Search.

After having problems similar, I can tell you this, keep your legs straight. I mean when sleeping and shit. To not is to impede blood flow, and if there's anything it needs right now no matter what....... it's blood flow.

Dietary advice is to have REAL soups and stews that break down marrow and cartilage by boiling, not that canned shit. You are what you eat, you need that part. Eat that part, one way or the other. There are a few other methods.

This medical advice is brought to you by a MF who didn't even know what a doctor was until a couple of years ago. Send an SASE for your grain of genuine unrefined sea salt, like what Cain ate when he slew Abel. But you only get one grain, the price is up bigtime. You think gas prices are high ? LOL.

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