Partial Unicompartmental Knee replacement

Last August 2018..and Partial Knee replacement Surgery...and a plastic knee cap..all due to sport..

Plates inserted into cement etc..and all seemed well

Specialists wanted to maintain my level of sport, hence the partial Unicompartmental operation..and not full knee replacement am i am 60 years old hoping to return to county level squash..a dream perhaps

Have been doing really well since the operation....i

With physiotherapy etc..have increased my levels of exercise , with longer distances of walking at increased pace...and even started gym work...with the odd pain and discomfort at times..but all manageable with ice, pain killers and rest and elevation...

Although the knee is not fully bending yet..after 7 months..but hope that will change..

Then last week..after an hours walk...knee swelled up terribly...and became very soft as if it was filled with liquid and very painful to even touch...Then excruciating pain on the inside of the knee..probably called the medial collateral ligament..hardly able to move the knee sideways and very painful when i try to bend it..as it seems to be rather thick around the knee area..

i am icing it..resting it..elevating it and have at times returned to morphine to stop the pain...and have had to stop all exercises...

Any thoughts and suggestions out there...haven't been to my GP yet?

Dhenis

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