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I'm 10 months post op TKR and having pain in the middle of the night for the last few months. Early on, about 4 months after I was nearly pain free. I don't understand why. No pain and then PAIN........?
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janice49725
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I don't know for sure how this "PATIENT site works. Can you see Shannon's comment herein where she says she had pain up to about 10 or 11 months so perhaps it isn't a bad thing but just an uncommon occurence.
suki51 janice49725
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Ahh th vagaries of pain, I would get it checked out if it continues meanwhile ice ice ice baby....I have a theory that as the sinews and muscles recover and cease to be numb anymore they are painful for a while then settle down again, it's the only way I can explain why the pain goes and the comes again only to go....good luck
janice49725 suki51
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Suki, I've been thinking of your theory and it makes a lot of sense to me. All the tendons, muscles and I don't know what all else is slowly coming back to life , re-awakening to feeling, and feeling what has been tampered with. Yes, you are on to something there.
mary12001 janice49725
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I'm 12 month post op from having TKR and my recovery seems to be going backwards.
I saw the consultant this week and although he is against revision surgery he's sending me for a bone scan on the knee because like you I suffer lots of pain in the night
janice49725 mary12001
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mary12001 janice49725
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I will I'm praying that's it's ok because I didn't realise revision meant taking the prosthetic out x
mary12001
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Hi Janice
I had the bone scan last week and I will know the results when I see the consultant next Saturday.
The radiographer said they were looking for infection and whether the prosthetic had come loose. So it's in the lap of the Gods. I'm so tired of it all. It's really aged me- a shock to my system really. X
janice49725 mary12001
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I thought it strange when some of the patients said my pain might be due to infection as I had no open wound so how could that be the reason. I then read online that as long as the prosthesis is present it can become infected. Even a bad tooth infection or other body part infections are able to go right to the artificial knee. Reason being: it's not a real body part so it has no blood supply and therefore no antibody system.
As to your possible revision.....they take the prosthesis out and then what happens? This whole thing is fascinating! Good thoughts with you, Mary.