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What treatments or prescriptions are you receiving for your knee pain?

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Are you able to receive the treatments prescribed to you or is cost an issue?

What treatments are you aware of that you would like to learn more about?

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Currently I do not have health insurance, I will get medicare in 2 months. I have been self treating with exercise, weight loss, supplements such as tumeric , fish oil, glucosamine, chondroitin.

In past, when working and insured, I had arthroscopy in 2012, synvisc injections twice, none seemed to be helping. Most recent xrays 6 mo ago showed severe narrowing, osteoarthritis both knees. Fortunately my rt one is the only painful one, left feels fine. I still have 35 of original 70 lb to lose, it is difficult as long distance walking is no longer an option.

I meant to add to my previous post., am interested in stem cell injections. I hear they are not covered by insurance and cost is thousands of $ which would not be an option for me at this time

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Hoski, you are correct. Stem cell type therapies are not covered by insurance and the cost can be quite high. One potential option is to find a center where there is a clinical trial and see if you quality as a research subject as there is no cost to the patient/subject. You can search on clinicaltrials.gov.

Best Mary

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