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I read in a previous post of yours that you did 50!! PRP injections. I was also advised to get PRP injections by a doc, he said a lot of top athletes suffer from cartilage damage, and they do these injections to prolong their careers. But then I was held back because it seemed they had a business from doing these PRP shots, I didn't trust them. They were also pretty expensive, around 500 euros/shot, and you needed to do several. But 50? that seems a lot, and a lot of times you had your blood drawn. In the Netherlands where I live, the doc didn't even mention PRPs, he jumped straight to a microfracture surgery. It felt like the guy was looking for someone to practice surgery on, hate these doctors.

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Of those 50 injections around 15 were PRP and the rest were hyaluronic acid injections.

I was doing them back in Russia and a PRP injection there would cost around $80.

I keep doing hyaluronic acid injections every 3 months just to be safe, whatever I am doing it seems to be working, so I continue doing them. Right now I live in Georgia they cost around $105 here ($90 for the syringe, $15 for the doctor).

SVF seemed to have a much stronger effect than PRP, it's hard to quantify, but I would say a single SVF felt close to all the PRPs I did before.

I was recently talking to a colleague of mine from Canada who needs to get shoulder surgery but there's no end in sight for the waiting.

I think it's worth it considering getting a paid surgery in a "2nd world" country, like Kazakhstan, Turkey, Russia (pre-war, feels uneasy going there now) and etc. Things there cost 10 times less and most surgeries, where hospitals don't need very advanced equipment, are probably done on the same level as "1st world" countries.

When I was 18 I went for a long run with a heavy backpack and developed extreme tendonitis on the sides of my knees. I could barely walk without excruciating pain. After three weeks of this suffering I got one round of PRP injections and was able to walk a week later. I made a full recovery within the month. Insane. There was no way it would have healed so fast without the injections based on the pain trajectory from the prior weeks.

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