Has anyone here ever had a surgery to fuse your ankle bones together because of osteoarthritis? [more inside]
posted by kittyloop on Apr 1, 2009 - 3 answers

Anybody have experience with early onset osteoarthritis (specific to knee)? [more inside]
posted by dancinglamb on Feb 28, 2009 - 9 answers

My fiancée is only 24 years old, but she has osteoarthritis (see this previous question). As a result, she has a lot of pain, particularly in her back, but she is just generally sore all over. We suspect that her job (customer service in busy cafe with a lot of heavy manual work thrown in behind the scenes in the kitchen and store rooms) may have exacerbated her condition because before she started there, she never felt the sort of pain she feels now after just two years of working there. We're thinking maybe we should get a personal injury lawyer and see if we have a case. Do the medical and legal minds of the hive think we do, too? [more inside]
posted by Effigy2000 on May 20, 2007 - 17 answers

My fiancée has just been told by her chiropractor that she has osteoarthritis. I have questions about the condition and, more specifically, how we can mimimise the cost of treating it under Australian Medicare. [more inside]
posted by Effigy2000 on Feb 5, 2007 - 28 answers