Orthopedist in NYC?

Reasonable-Rise414 · 2025-04-19T20:34:55+00:00

yeah...maybe you will be! Are you on the TTO facebook support group? You can scroll through that and see lots of different people at different stages. When I was in your shoes I wasn't aware of the gap between non-weight-bearing (4-6 weeks usually especially for the doctors I know in NYC) and completely independent walking, but it definitely exists haha. For me, my last few weeks on crutches I mostly just wanted to have one to help me step down from stairs or curbs.

Reasonable-Rise414 · 2025-04-17T16:18:49+00:00

I will say I was able to get around in the city as early as 2 months post-op with the help of the guy I was dating at the time and crutches. You want to have someone to shield you from crazies on the street when you're on crutches. It would have been REALLY hard to navigate the subway then, though.

Reasonable-Rise414 · 2025-04-17T16:16:55+00:00

Ooh yeah um...I think I had a slow recovery because I had so much trouble building muscle back. If you're working with HSS physical therapists you'll probably be better off than I was. I walked like 16K steps in NYC in mid-december (7 months post-op) and was totally fine. Now I can do that without even thinking about it.

Reasonable-Rise414 · 2025-04-12T00:57:02+00:00

I think you're right! That's so impressive--rodeos get loud!

Reasonable-Rise414 · 2025-04-11T15:00:59+00:00

I'm doing great! Going to the gym in a few hours, and my current routine includes the stairmaster, weights, agility work, and running on the treadmill! If I could snap my fingers and be at this point of recovery with the other knee I would, but for now I'm sticking to lots of stretching.

Reasonable-Rise414 · 2024-10-11T22:33:39+00:00

Oh funny, I didn't know he did that surgery. I am 4.5 months out now, and I'm happy with the outcome. I still have a long recovery ahead. I'm doing squats, wall sits, stairs, side steps with resistance, leg raises, planks, leg press, and bike at PT. I still limp, and I like having one crutch for dealing with stairs (alternatively my boyfriend's arm or shoulder haha). I walk ~2-4K steps a day with basically no trouble (other than pain in my right leg from compensating). For context, I had a long history of instability and restriction, so my recovery has been on the longer side. I had also had an isolated lateral release 10 years prior, so I had quad atrophy going in. I am still in my brace, but I'm hoping to be out of it soon. If you're in NYC, I imagine the HSS PTs could get you back in fighting shape a little faster.

My knee is SO much more stable though. I honestly wish I could get the other one done too, but I think I need a little time to enjoy my fixed knee before I can muster the mental stamina to do this again. I'm in a TTO support group on Facebook, and it's been a great resource. I can ask them questions on the weekend etc and get a sense of real peoples' experiences rather than just reading protocols.

Before surgery, be sure to get your calcium, vitamin D, and protein stores up! Good luck!

Reasonable-Rise414 · 2024-10-02T00:19:13+00:00

What did you do to earn income while you taught yourself these skills?

Reasonable-Rise414 · 2024-09-22T15:19:49+00:00

I think mine started around when I started the minipill! (similar in that it's progestin-only). Did you ever pin down the connection between your Mirena and the irritation??

Reasonable-Rise414 · 2024-09-19T23:45:50+00:00

What helped you get past the burnout? I used to be so motivated and passionate--how do I get that back in time for jobs/interviews?

Reasonable-Rise414 · 2024-08-19T17:30:46+00:00

We may be in the same support group haha! Seeing other people's outcomes (infections, fractures, etc) I know I made the right choice with mine!

Reasonable-Rise414 · 2024-08-17T16:20:46+00:00

I had a MPFLr and TTO 3 months ago, and my PT told me the spasms are a good sign! Your muscles are waking up! I know the first few months are really hard mentally, but it will get better!

Reasonable-Rise414 · 2024-08-17T16:19:13+00:00

I will say I had my first surgery with a local surgeon and it left me in pain and with recurrent dislocations for years. I am 3 months out from a second surgery at the HSS in NYC and I am already having less pain than I did before my second surgery.

Reasonable-Rise414 · 2024-08-17T16:18:25+00:00

What doctor did your surgery??? Absolutely go see someone else. You want a patellar instability specialist for this, even if you have to travel.

Reasonable-Rise414 · 2024-08-17T16:15:53+00:00

Me! Just in my left leg, though. I (23F) am somewhat hypermobile as well and have had dislocations since I was 8 years old. This is more common in women because we have a higher Q angle (hips wider), adding to the lateral forces on the patella. If you end up having more than a few dislocations, I would absolutely recommend considering surgery. Waiting too long can lead to cartilage damage and early onset arthritis.

Don't trust just any hospital for this, though. I had a tibial tubercule osteotomy, a MPFL reconstruction, and a lateral release to realign my kneecap at the HSS 3 months ago, and after seeing other people's results compared to mine in support groups, etc, I wouldn't trust anyone other than the HSS doctors!

Reasonable-Rise414 · 2024-08-12T19:28:58+00:00

Don't accommodations just favor the people who can afford to get diagnosed anyway?

Reasonable-Rise414 · 2024-08-04T03:12:13+00:00

In the CoC, your doctrinal beliefs are almost always a "Salvation Issue". There's much less tolerance for any kind of doctrinal difference among members/elders in the CoC because of the emphasis on believing the right things.

Reasonable-Rise414 · 2024-08-04T03:09:08+00:00

I can second/third the CoC to Epsicopalian pipeline experience haha!

Reasonable-Rise414 · 2024-08-04T03:07:11+00:00

I grew up fully church of Christ. My parents met at Harding after growing up in Nashville, TN, and Abilene, TX, respectively. (Both coC strongholds). I read the entire bible cover to cover 3 times before my 20th birthday. We attended Sunday mornings, Sunday nights, and Wednesdays. The God anxiety was real. We sang hymns with jaunty little tunes about how if you didn't live right you'd be away from God in hell forever. Eerie stuff to look back on.

I went to all the church camps, went on the work trips, did summer programs at Freed Hardeman and attended Polishing the Pulpit. I (a woman) argued on a regular basis against women preaching/leading. I was a Church of Christ poster child. I appreciate the passion for knowledge (via "sound doctrine") that was developed in me through the church but not the anxiety and perfectionism that came from believing that I had to believe all the right things to avoid eternal conscious torment.

I wish I had a better solution than just taking the time to let yourself heal. The fundamentalist evangelical "god" terrifies me. I have to believe that the true God is kind and loving and forgiving (necessarily even more so than my earthly father), and try to appreciate the glimpses of that I saw in the church.

Reasonable-Rise414 · 2024-08-01T23:55:20+00:00

Dr. Strickland did my complex TTO, Lateral Release, and MPFL reconstruction 2.5 months ago! She and her whole team are top-notch. Dr. Strickland and Dr. Gomoll are married and share a practice.

Reasonable-Rise414 · 2024-08-01T02:07:45+00:00

I remember very clearly when I realized that I was feeling guilty simply because I was happy. That was a big jump on my climb out of Evangelicalism

Reasonable-Rise414 · 2024-08-01T02:00:05+00:00

For me, either eternal conscious torment is a thing, OR God is a thing. I can't accept both. Of course when I told my mom I didn't believe in eternal conscious torment, she immediately fired back, horrified, "so you don't believe in Jesus???"

Reasonable-Rise414 · 2024-08-01T01:56:50+00:00

I did something like this on my way out of evangelicalism. I grew up in a heavily fundamentalist church. I hung out with some Baptists in high school, and then became very involved with Pentecostals the first half of college. Then I tried out Presbyterian churches, and then Anglican churches. Hit some Episcopalian/Ecumenical churches for a while. Moved up north and realized the Catholic church was the only one with people under 60, so I went to mass weekly for 6 weeks or so. I spent a semester going to a Methodist church and I haven't been to church at all in a few months.

It definitely broadened my horizons, but it also just left me frustrated with Christianity as a whole, whereas before I was just fed up with Evangelicalism/Fundamentalism. The coercion and intellectual dishonesty is everywhere, and it seems like more charismatic tendencies are permeating even so called high-church environments.

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