My sister just got back from the Specialist today, expecting to have full knee replacements done, well we have some good news and some not so good.

Firstly yes she does have osteoarthritis but she found out she had as the specialist described dud knee caps, has probably had for over forty years.

The not so good news is , he has only operated on two or three of these and they were not successful, and he would not recommend surgery for her,,good she is not having surgery, but not so good that she will still have this problem, also it can run in family's and women suffer from it more, lucky us.

I have had ongoing pain in my knees too for over twenty years, i put it down to my fibromyalgia, and now arthritis, as i had a very bad flare up the same time as my sister and our pains were almost identical, so i will have to go and get checked out and see whether i have the same problem.

She will have to some exercises to strength her quads apparently, i sure hope that will ease her pain.

So yes this was indeed not something we expected,strange really.