TKR put on hold - switching knees to ComforMIS

I quickie update - my Total Knee Replacement has been put on hold / temporally canceled.   DJ and I both caught super bad colds and there was no way to go through a TKR - MEANWHILE there were so many red flags with my ortho that I am switching it up a little.

One thing I want to do is change venues - I'm not going to the UW as SURPRISE they do not have the best knees!   

I ASSUMED that since there are 600,000 knee replacements every year there was some standard procedure,   BUT NOO!!    UW Madison and all LARGE hospitals use "off the shelf"  knees.  What they do is measure your knee in 8 different spots and using an algorithm pick the best one and then the Doc whittles everything to the right size.  

HOWEVER - smaller hospitals like Prairie Ridge in Columbus use ComforMIS 3D printed knees which take longer to make but are MUCH MUCH better.   

With these knees you have a cat scan from your hip to your ankle and a knee is 3D printed to the exact size. Since every knee is different this knee will be an EXACT copy. Every tendon and ligament will not even notice a change.  Results are outstanding and healing is much much faster.  I'm not sure I believe this but many people comment they never really had to do any physical therapy.  I take that with a grain of salt but more then one person has said this on facebook who had ConforMIS knees.  

One woman on  facebook said she had her knee replaced when she was 92 years old and was walking without a cane in 7 weeks with no PT,  although I doubt she was playing soccer.  

I talked to a woman last night who had a ConforMIS knee and went to a holiday party 7 days after she got her knee . . . although she was narced up with OXY and had pillows and so forth. She did drive on day 11 and did a full rotation on a stationary bike on day 9 (slowly).

     

Another red flag was my Doc used Zimmer knees and gets paid by Zimmer for every knee he installs.   Plus a few questions I asked had bad answers.   

So - since I have been in no real pain for 3 months,  just a swollen knee and I can't really walk a LONG distance I'm in no super BIG hurry. Pain is not a issue. 

I had been thinking about ComforMIS for 3 weeks and reading EVERYTHING I could find but was just going to along with the herd.  BUT with this cold by BOTH of us I canceled.  It was a sign.  

I know so many people who had knees done at Prairie Ridge in Columbus/Beaver Dam with outstanding results.   OH - I'm not thinking this will be a cake walk miracle in anyway.  Don't get me wrong.  Everyone is different.  

But when I talk to people that say "everything went great" and " healing was much faster then anticipated"  I ask what the knee was and it's ComforMIS. 

SO - advance to the rear and start over.     

(I am not being paid by ConforMIS).