Pain again

One thing I have learned from this site is that recovery from tkr is different for everyone. Don't be disheartened. You will be fine. I'm 5 weeks post op and whenever I think I'm improving I have a bad day or night but this appears to be normal. I must admit it would be nice to have my leg back. I feel as if I'm carrying about someone else's leg!!

Chin up

Patricia

bless you, jean! i know exactly how you feel. i woke up yesterday morning with both knees screaming with pain at 4 a.m. why? who knows, no idea. i got up and could hardly walk, the pain was so bad. i went back to bed with ice packs on both knees. no help. then medicated. a bit of an improvement. went for a lymphatic massage. a tiny improvement. but by the time i got to my next therapy, i was crying and could hardly get up the stairs. my therapist waved her magic wand and an hour later i was fine. but WHY? and HOW can this happen with all the meds we swallow?

my surgeon reassures me we get good days and bad. and not to worry if i am still needing lots of meds. each patient is different and not to be too hard on ourselves.

do a bit less but don't stop doing it. we cannot make the knee the center of our lives forever.

britta - 8.3 weeks post-op

Hi Jean

in one respect he is right expect he left out one little word. The word "try" . Try to carry on your life as normal. But you will find you will need more rests than normal, you won't be able to stand as long as you normally would, you will take more pain medication than normal, you will be tireder than normal etc etc otherwise yes try to carry on with your life as normal. At least that is what I am doing up to a point. I have returned to work but sit down longer, I walk from A to Z but take much longer as I walk more slowly, I still catch a movie, have coffee, do a bit of basic cooking (not much cleaning) but I can't go to watch a one dayer cricket cos it's too much, I can't go to an antique show and walk around for a few hours cos its too much. So in that respect life is not normal but it will get there little by little. BUT! As far as the doc saying you shouldn't be in pain by now!!!!!! Did u snot him??? Lol. Don't let him get away with such a ridiculous comment. Ask him if he knows what he is talking about! Then spend the next 5 minutes telling him what it is like, how u feel, describe every little strange sensation/ pain/ niggle you get. Let him know how Insensed you are at the insensitive comment. 

Yes Jean, if you do a bit too much you do feel it later. When I go to hydrotherapy and work hard for an hour, I usually feel it over the next  few hours but I think that is to be expected. The joys of recovery hey? But there is still medication if you can get it. If you've overdone it and it aches, then medicate! Well that's what I do

no pain after 8 weeks i wish lol, i had one in feb and the other in august and still have some pain or is this classed as discomfort ?