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Thinking I should join the Depression forum!

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Lindyblue
Lindyblue

Almost 6 weeks post TKR surgery, and all I can do the last 2 days is cry!

I thought this has almost stopped, and bam! back it came!

Mind you my sleep has been lousy too - I rotate in bed like a roasting chicken, then trot (quiet not so tippy toed as I'd like) into the loungeroom, kind of get comfortable on the couch, only to then get up, get a drink, back to bed, back to the lounge, etc. Its a terrible vicious circle. Maybe lack of sleep isn't helping the tears. Starting to feel like a real oldie (I'm 56 feeling more like 96) (my aplogies to anyone who IS 96) ... watching movies doesn't help - people running around, in wonderful countries, dancing and singing all over the place only makes me more miserable! So I watch the news. Well that's a bad move too! Ok so my usual humour does poke through occasionally, but I think you get the message. I'm MISERABLE like this!!!

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  • martinarvelo
    martinarvelo Lindyblue

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    Ah, but as you say your sense of humour is still alive, and that's a wonderful thing!  Six weeks is still early days. . .but in my case, it was improvememnt most days after six weeks, although there were quite a few days when i felt I was slipping backwards . . You are, though, definitely over the worst!  the sleep pattern, unfortuantely, is an even harder nut to crack.  At over six months, unless I take a sleeping tablet, I spend most of the night awake . . . . . 
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