Asking for advice

Life is great everyday I am in pain its either bad or real bad. It seems if I do nothing it will still hurt just not as bad now when I do normal things like cut the grass go for a short walk it gets worse. Some would say if their pain level was between a 5  and a 6 they would be miserable this is my daily level EVERY DAY!!! A bad day is 7 the pain following surgery I would give it a 9 to me there is only one reason for a 10 if your in a major car accident. I would love to have just one day where I am completely pain free. 

 

nwf477 i do not have any clue what my reply is going to be as i write this out of my head, i have read you post twice and come to the conclusion that there is something wrong inside the knees and to some degree in your head, i do not mean that as  an insult but are you not in a seriously mode of depression most people do not know even if they are or not, do you take any depro and painkillers at some times have you tried another specialist like in 2nd or 3rd opinion. I had both knees done 2 years apart and with complications diffrent to yours as with the 1st one under anasethic my heart stopped for a few minutes and had to be resussitated with 3 broken ribs and 3 weeks in icu induced coma, luckey for me amnesia was  or is still there as i do not recolect any of it until week 4 and then all hell broke loose with no knee to show for it, fast forward back in wheel chair and home for a year posthoned(recovery) then back to the procedure internest did eeg on me and nope it is abnormal and sent me too have an angiogram wich showed all ok and was shceduled for the op with the desicion no anathsetic but a spinal very sucsessfull i had my 1st knee done and the same old crap pain swelling no sleep very little control over bladder functions wife had to bed wash me and the physio, i am sure you know it it all, now desicion time for no2 and my surgeon ask me if i can hold out for 9 months or year as i was by the out of wheel chair  and on crutches like in mobile on my own i agreed.But as in life no one is secured what tomorrow holds, as the date grew near and the pain of the 1st knee forgotten i was inpatient to get it over and done, but 3 weeks before the op i had an heart attack at 4 in the morning and was rushed to my hospital and all and one now have stent in my heart no muscle damage  and all that no my internest decided that i was a risk for the 2nd tkr and i asked him who makes the desicion it is my knee and my shoulders would not last much longer on the crutches more pain much more then it was decided phostponed for six months and  then some tests yip the go ahead was given 25 november it was the date 2016, As we left for the hospital the previous day to be prepped my surgeon ask me if i want to do this and imedeatly said yes, so again a spinal of wich i could hear the sound some times and the not it was done and now 2 new knees with all the same crap but i away better then the first as my pain schedule medicine was adapted (now a junky on codeine) working on that so that is how experiance worked out no crutches some shoulder pain still but walking on my own 2 legs and not to sprinty as i am 64 and dot want run any marothons what gets me is the unsteadyness sometime no pain  though unless it is a bit cold but i am a man i acept that it will not get better than it is but thank God i can go and walk outside walk in the malls drive my car use toilet normal manner and as an oldish male have high bp dibetic on tabs rumatiod arthritus 2nd degree so i swallow a bunch of pills and also have bad moments, but i always remember where i was when my body gave up on me i am happy with what i have left my wife my children my 5 grand children and i sleep when i want to, i hope the reply will bring some release to your pain and mind set i want to stress that please go and see sphyco and talk to them and tell them realy how you feel, alone you will just suffer alone get some help from some one please write me back i am from south africa gauteng regards danie