Clicking sounds & leg giving way!

Mine got steadily worse as the swelling subsided - which then showed all the problems. I can't go up or down stairs, can't walk my dogs for more than 500yds, still can't sleep - terriefied they will only offer a revision, & not a remedy (misaligned by an unacceptable & uncomfortable due to inflamed soft tissue 6mm). I wondered if I could cope with the clicking & unstabilty if others found it got better - just the pain I still struggle with! Veronica

I find it unacceptable that we have to suffer with pain???? There must be hundreds of drugs that could help us I just put it down to GP.s budgets and fobbing us off with the cheapest pain killers????

Google knee replacement and see what has been done. If you didnt feel pain you wuld be either unconscious or dead. Its nothing to do with GP budgets Often the best are the cheapest. I used CoDydramol 

That's pretty strong stuff . .and only available on prescription I imagine.  I'm sure it's a lot more expensive than paracetamol! However,  I don't really think it's the cost of the drugs which stop the doctors prescribing them . . either they don't think we need anything stronger, or they are afraid we are going to become addicted. . 

What are you using Andrea??  I had a lot of tofble getting decent painkillers, but it had nothing to do with cutbacks etc. . just the doctor's ideas, as i don't get them through the national health service anyway, and have to pay for them (the disadvantages of having the operation privately!) . My surgeon seemed to think that once I was out of hospital, paracetamol should be adquate . .he may have done hundreds of these operations, but he's never had one, so has no idea how much it can hurt!  You do have to be caeful to use pain medicaton ssensibly to avoid causing other problems . . 

At the moment im buying paramol but ive got a GP.s appt on Mon so im reallt gonna lay it on the line cos I feel like no one cares. I HAVEN'T slept for 5 weeks and im sooooo tired its having a knock on effect cos im too weary and tearful to do much????

No yyou can buy up to 8mg Codein with paracetamol overthe counter. Solpadol or Cocodamol. CoDydramol that I had was 10 mg to 500 of paracetamol, I cant take the stronger opiats. I was off them by 5 weeks rather than risk addiction

 

Yeh the strange thing is I was on co-codomol for months before I had it done and everytime I mentioned getting addicted the GP said I was fine. It was a lower dose pill but it now doesnt cut the pain?? Anyway hopefully come Mon itl be sortef

Yes, low dose over the counter in UK I believe. . Not here in spain though, unless you have a very friendly chemist! Probelm for addicts (which I'm not now thank heavens!) is that they then take loads of these tablets, so overdo the paracetamol, which is potentially fatal.  There are no certain ways of avoiding misuse if people decide to do it!

The lack of sleep seems to be common to nearly everyone after this op.  Dobn't like to tell you, but at twelve weeks I am still awake most of the night, sleeping on and off obviously, but awake for hours.  And I'm not sure that it is totally pain related. . becaus when I'm lying down, provided the nerves aren't playing up, I don't really have that much pain now.  But the sleeplessness remains. . . I did sleep a bit better when I was on sleeping tablets, but can't go on with them for ever!  I hope the doc can perhaps change yur medication, as if you've been on cocodamol for a long time, you probably don't get a lot of relief from it now. . but be careful with the opiates!  

Hek thanks martin - not - lol but you do make sense lol I seem to wake every 3 hours round about the time my next meds are coming up and my leg is sooooooo dead it takes ages to get it going again???? Then the nerves start kicking in and I fidget about its horrendous!!! Im trying today to only take paracetemol but my main problem is that cos im not sleeping im worn out when I get up and it takes forever to get going lol. I must admit im scared of gettin dependant on pills but I would just love to get some sleep and wake refreshed???? HELL im never gonna get back to work at this rate ha ha

 wouldn't recommend doing without the pain medication . . it will make it impossible for you to do the exercises.  At twelve weeks, I;ve been two days without doing them . .and already it's much more stiff and painful, so today . .back to the grind!When I stopped taking tramadol the first time, I tried to go 'cold turkey' and I felt absolutely awful . trembing, hallucinations, insomnia (nothing new there . .) iirrtible legs . .it was horrible. . but then the doc gave me more tablets, and I was able to do it gradually, and it didn't notice. . I just cut down over a period of about two weeks, until I stopped altogether. . so I wouldn't worry too much about it.  I've never been a good sleeper since I had children years ago . . ., so although I spend hours every night tossing and turning, I'm sort of used to it. . .but by about ten at night I have to admit I am thoroughly exhausted!  One would think that would mean you would sleep, wouldn't you!