Better hope insurance will cover the Synvisc. Mine did for a couple of shots over the course of a couple of years. Then they stopped covering it. That sucked, as with a cortisone shot followed by the Synvisc a few weeks later, I was good to go for 6-9 months.
My first round on Synvisc was free; I was one of the trial patients.
FOR ME, it was amazing stuff. My injury was from trauma, so I have some unique things going on in my knee... But for me, Synvisc gave me the only 1.5 years pain free I've had since the accident (which happened in June of '84). Since then I've had it all, and now I have an artificial knee joint. But I was pretty impressed with Synvisc. It worked wonders the first time, and was a complete failure the second time... But by that time, the whole knee was worn out and it was just time for an artificial joint.
