Reached Out To Patient Relations For Help Contacting My Surgeon
[ Saturday February 28th 2026 at 9:28 am ]
My surgeon's office hasn't been responsive to me since I had my pain management appointment on January 12th 2026. I have now reached out the hospital patient relations department for help in getting a follow up appointment with my surgeon.
The plan was that I would get back to my surgeon once I had been assessed for knee denervation by my pain management doctor. I am not a candidate for this. It is a very unreliable procedure. This is because of how complicated the knee joint is.
According to my pain management doctor:
- There is not a set number of knee joint sensory nerves in each person.
- Each sensory nerve is a branch subset of nerves.
- The knee joint sensory nerves are not in the same location in each persons body.
- The sensory nerves are only visuabled using ultrasound. The doctor is simply unable to locate all them.
According to my pain management doctor the momentus conclusion to this is an unreliable treatment modality that inflicts vast amounts of pain onto the patient without being successful. This means doing more harm than good. My pain management doctor expressed a statement even stronger than this. That my orthopedic surgeon has demonstrated he is not a pain management doctor by even recommending I be assessed for this. The reality is that this is grasping at straws.
It is the unavoidable conclusion that my right knee joint needs to be replaced. I am okay with this. I have already exhausted every other intervention possible. I tried to avoid it being replaced. In this case nothing worked. For me this is a justifiable reason to replace my right knee joint. I only want to know what it expected out of me that will facilitate a recovery. If I am having my right knee joint replaced I am doing so to improve my overall quality of life and end the unrelenting pain that is causing me to feel like I am going to vomit.