Pregnancy and Knee Problems

[*CLAIREBEAR*]

hi there!
i will be 10 weeks pregnant on monday and wondered if anyone else had got pregnant after having previous knee problems/surgerys.
i had a road traffic accident just over 3 years ago and injured my right knee pretty badly,2 surgerys later (the last one being in january 07,and being quite a big surgery-a patella realignment-3 ops in 1)
i wondered how your knees had held up carrying a baby afterwards?
i have built up the strength in my knee/thigh area the best i could after the surgery but was immobilsed for 3 months straight afterwards in a metal brace for the majority of this duration 24/07,so in this time i got athropy,(muscle wastage)
i did physio for several months to get the muscle tone back again and am still doing light exercises now to try and keep it strong but am a little worried how it will cope when i get bigger!

any input would be apprechiated!

 

[First time mum]

Hiya

I have had knee pain in my right knee for about a year and went to the doctors to have it checked out, went for x rays etc.
They said I have some cartlidge that has come away and is floating around.
I was due to have an operation to have it removed and went for the pre-op etc and then the DAY BEFORE my op I found out I was pregnant!!!!! So I called them to tell and they would not do the operation at all as too risky etc.
So I have the same worries as to whether the pregnancy will aggravate it more.

 

[*CLAIREBEAR*]

hi F.T.M,
i don't know what is worse having the surgery before or after having bubs!
i guess the resting will be alot easier beforehand but if you have yours afterwards it will not be "undone" by your pregnancy??
(unless you have more children!!)
im just worried that it starts to dislocate again with the added weight on it,and i end up having to have more surgerys done in the future.
it was soft tissue work i had done,luckily i do a sit down job at work so get to rest and elevate it plenty.
im going to mention it to the midwife when i see her in 2 1/2 weeks.
will they be able to do your cartlidge work by keyhole surgery??
if they do its a lot less invasive and you should be up and about in a week or so.
my first surgery was keyhole,but as there was alot to sort out inside had to have the second open surgery done also!
and it was all caused by a bloody cat!!!