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suzidownunder
suzidownunder

Hi everyone

Because this forum is so good and a great place to check up on others experiences would it be possible to put how many weeks or days you are at the bottom of your posts?

Just a thought. I know i often read of someone's progress and wonder how far they've come smile

Happy weekend - hope you're all feeling good!

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  • jenzone
    jenzone suzidownunder

    Posted

    9 Weeks and progressing very slowly. But can drive now. Yippee
    • MCanada
      MCanada jenzone

      Posted

      The freedom of driving again is quite a thrill isn't it? Good for you!
  • margaret83646
    margaret83646 suzidownunder

    Posted

    Hi susie I'm 13weeks and 2days and defiantly feeling the benefit. My main pain is like a burning on the inside, and if I do to much my knee feels very stiff.

    I'm going to make An appointment next week to b referred to get my left knee done.

    Good luck everyone, love reading your posts x

    • suzidownunder
      suzidownunder margaret83646

      Posted

      Goodness you are so brave getting another one done!

      I'm not yet sure i would.

      I'm 13+2 the same. Sleeping ok just waking to get another position.

      No actual knee pain just the stiffness and soreness of complaining muscles around it.

      I had vein surgery just before the TKR so what with a scar on the front and a scar on the back it does look like i had it chopped off and sewn back on lol

    • margaret83646
      margaret83646 suzidownunder

      Posted

      Hi suzi, not sure that I'm brave lol but my left knee is so painful i feel ill have to get it done.

      My operated knee is so much straighter and I can stand without too much discomfort

      Can't wait till I'm more mobile and independent and although I'm still limping im trying to go out without a stick. X

    • susan20089
      susan20089 margaret83646

      Posted

      Glad to hear someone else gets that burning on inside of knee and loads of stiffness. I am 10 weeks and my leg feels very achey unless I am elevating.
  • glenda29798
    glenda29798 suzidownunder

    Posted

    I'm 18 weeks 3 days left TKR and I found this forum during one of the many sleepless post TKR nights (and still have) when I was in my second week and it's been my "life support".I don't think I'd have got through it without all the support and information - thank you! Although the swelling has gone down that only happened last week, and I still haven't managed a full nights sleep, but generally walking, movement etc has improved. Every day is different, sometimes pain free apart from a bit of stiffness, sometimes uncomfortable with clonking in the new knee, sometimes I yell out as it feels like a stapler is being applied to my knee, etc etc! It takes a long time to recover from this major surgery and one day I hope just to be able to accept my Stryker Triathalon knee as Glenda's knee! 
    • jenzone
      jenzone glenda29798

      Posted

      I agree totally. This forum is a Lifesaver. I am 9 weeks post op and was thinking I was doing something terribly wrong not to be recovered by now. Then I found this. Forum. It was sooo reassuring to read others experiences and know I am "Normal"

      Thank you to all you lovely people who are helping me through this horrendous time.  Jenny XX

  • martinarvelo
    martinarvelo suzidownunder

    Posted

    Excellent idea . .four weeks and three days . . only just beginning to feel human again!

     

  • veronica91735
    veronica91735 suzidownunder

    Posted

    I'm 14 weeks +5 days.

    I wish I'd found this forum at the beginning. My 1st 6 weeks were hell - like a lot of others, I thought I'd never see a light at the end of this tunnel, as the expected repair/recovery was a supposedly 6-8 weeks. Thank you all for the support, & being normal like me. Someone has switched the light on at the end of the tunnel, but they need to change the bulb, as it's only a 5w one & I need to see at least a 100w bright light!!

    Veronica

  • CazDesmond
    CazDesmond suzidownunder

    Posted

    I am 20 weeks and1 day.

    Just got back from a two day break. 

    I drove there, 3 hours, walked around and drove all day yesterday, and drove home today.

    I swam too. My knee hurt at the end of each day and was swollen, it hurt a bit in the nights too, but was good to go again in the morning.

    Caz x

    • peter73207
      peter73207 CazDesmond

      Posted

      Thats great news Caz, must feel good to get some regular functionality back into your life. Congratulations!

      I seem to have caught a nasty cold here so had to cancel pool physio today. Oh well, this too shal pass.maybe it will take my mind off the knee, haha

      have a great day and keep moving forward!

      Peter 

    • CazDesmond
      CazDesmond MCanada

      Posted

      Thanks Mary, 

      Its very stiff today though. I'm trying to decide whether to have a day off or exercise.

      Caz x

    • CazDesmond
      CazDesmond peter73207

      Posted

      Oh, bad news Peter, I hope it goes away soon. Try to keep up the exercises even if you are not feeling like it. I stopped doing mine for 10 days when I had a tummy bug, it put my knee back a lot.

      Get well

      Caz x

    • peter73207
      peter73207 CazDesmond

      Posted

      Thanks Caz, I usually recover fairly quickly. Have stopped all my meds since sat now so the daughter was kind enough to offer me a glass of wine.

      hope thats legal at this stage. I been taking 1 day a week off exercises to help recover and think thats helped. I would imagine the stiffness will be on and off depending on activity for a while

      So Glad to hear you are doing well.

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