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Any one can help it's now 3 weeks ,I am still in a lot of pain my knee hurt to the Touch , I am doing physical therapy she seems to say I'm doing well I can bend my leg 98° but it hurts
One field attorney hurts more now than it did before .never swollen and bruised
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Maryedna21 Bosco
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CHICO_MARX Bosco
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"You've only just begun..." - The Carpenters, 1970
So I took some liberty with the title but it still applies. It's gonna hurt and hurt...for a while to come. Most of us are/were on the opioids for 30-60 days, especially during PT. People refer to this as "brutal" and they're absolutely right. A complete assault on mind, body and soul.
Eat healthy, hydrate a lot, stay on your med schedule (do NOT deviate), ice, elevate, turn your mind to things other than the pain, go to PT, do your home exercises. The whole thing takes a year...accept it...own it.
Bosco CHICO_MARX
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j21370 Bosco
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Hi Bosco - maybe I misread that after surgery you were sent home without pain killers and anti-inflammatories. I don't know in what part of the world you had your surgery, but that is inhumane. Total knee replacement is a very painful surgery at least for the first 2 months. Unless you have a very high threshold for pain. You need pain killers when you go for PT and you also need anti-inflammatories to bring down the swelling along with icing and elevating your leg. I follow the forum every day and they are some patients that have very little pain. However, there are some like me that still have pain. I am 9 months post op TKR and I still experience some pain. Thank God that my doctor works with me. You should contact your doctor again and explain the pain problem. Hope your pain decreases soon. Please let us know. In this website you have an abundance of people with experience always willing to give their best advice. J-21370
martinarvelo Bosco
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Three weeks is very early . . it's all bound to hurt at the moment, and swelling and bruising is very normal. If you give it time, it will resolve, but swelling tends to last for many weeks. Bending to 98 at three weeks is pretty good, but it is important to keep doing it even though it hurts, and aim to reach at least 120 in the end. . but no need to panic about getting there. You are better than I was at six weeks, and I am now at 135 . . Good pain control is important to help you with the physical therapy, but even so, a degree of pain is unfortunately pretty inevitable for most of us, apart from a few lucky soulds who say they don't have pain! However, if your PT pushes you too far to the point of screaming (mine did, blast her!) tell him/her to stop. It's perseverance which wins the day in the end, not brutality.
Bosco martinarvelo
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CHICO_MARX Bosco
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martinarvelo Bosco
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I think you'll find that varies depending on where you are! I had a PT come to the house for a couple of weeks, three times a week, and from then on I was on my own, and quite glad to be! She was a sadist from hell . . . .;-) I find I can inflict more pain on myself than I'm prepared to let someone else inflict on me. . . .
Bosco martinarvelo
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Starting this week but I go out to physiotherapy at the hospital once a week but I didn't ask how long I need to go for so I just thought I'd ask if anybody hear you thanks for helping out everybody
Oldfatguy1 Bosco
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Results are as as different a fingerprints.
Much depends on how fast of a healer you are, how much individual effort you are doing, you personal habits as far as hydration and nutrition, how much you allow your body to have good, complete rest. Just be very patient and be willing to put in the effort when the therapist isn't watching. It does take time. Read and reread Chico's teaching, or as they at known, the New Jersey journals, translated into Texan.
martinarvelo Bosco
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Bit confused about field attorneys and Fleming tory's lol!!!
Oldfatguy1 martinarvelo
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You English teachers are all the same..pick, pick, pick. I remember one I had in college. Wanted correct spelling and proper punctuation and on top of that, sentences that made sense. I guess I shouldn't have accused him of being a jerk. I might have made a D instead of flunking
martinarvelo Oldfatguy1
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Actually, when I had to work (thank heavens that's long past) I was a Spanish teacher, not English . . .but I honestly don't know what a Fleming's tory is .....and a field attorney?
Oldfatguy1 martinarvelo
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I'm with you. But then again, there is always something new. I write stuff lie that and blame it on auto correct...not my fingers.