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Hi snoozy69
Are you still in pain. We had a our ops at around the same time. I expected the pain to be far better than it is. I can walk, and do daily house work but I get a lot of pain .
I thought the pain would have been easier by now
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arlene94040 deb1205
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When did you have op? Mine was five months ago, still having pain😞
deb1205 arlene94040
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Just on 3 months, I thought it would be much better than it is, don't get me wrong I am pleased I had it done but certainly was not prepared for the long healing time
Snoozy69 deb1205
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Hi Deb yes I still have pain. Last week I tried to reduce the amount of pain killers I was taking but couldnt manage it so I'm still taking tramadol and diclofenac. I've also started taking amitriptyline for nerve pain which was giving me problems at night. I'm definitely stronger now so I'm managing to walk further sometimes without my stick but I'm having a lot of problems with swelling which then leads to pain so I'm not able to return to work yet. On the bright side I do not have to work over Christmas 😃
deb1205 Snoozy69
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Night time seems the worse for me.
deb1205 Snoozy69
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Snoozy69 deb1205
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My doctor told me to relax and enjoy the ride, Chico is right we haven't got a clue how long it's going to take to recover. As long as we're doing all the right things it can only improve our chances of recovery. Im learning now just to go with the flow and not to be so impatient then again I'm on amitriptyline now so that is chilling me out 😋
CHICO_MARX deb1205
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"I expected..." This will be the major source of your pain, frustration, lack of mental clarity, depression and more going forward unless you let go of all your expectations. In TKRLand, there are no timetables, no set dates and the word "should" has been stricken from the lexicon. It is the most Zen of all operations: "The knee will be healed when it is healed." Period. "I will return to work when my knee is healed enough and I am strong enough to do that." Period. "I will climb stairs normally again when I am strong enough to do that." Period.
See any dates...any timetable? That's because there is none...FOR YOU, for me, for any of us! Any statistics or numbers you see apply to populations, NEVER to specific individuals. Will you be completely recovered and back to normal in less than 3 months? Possible but not likely. Will you be in continual pain and reliant on drugs and walking aids for two years? Possible but not likely. Will this whole thing take a year to get back to a "normal" life? Very likely. But for you, as an individual, all of it is completely unknown. So like all the rest of us, you take it a day at a time. Take your meds, ice, elevate, eat healthy, hydrate a lot, go to PT, do your home exercises, strengthen your dead quads, glutes and core, be good to yourself, compare yourself to no one else, sleep when your body tells you to sleep, be focused on and dedicated to your recovery...
Time, work and patience...the rules of the game. Expectations have no place here.
PS: Slight correction... You can absolutely expect advances, setbacks and plateaus. Inescapable. This is a chart of your recovery...
https://patient.info/forums/discuss/the-reality-of-a-tkr-recovery-in-one-picture-626038
deb1205 CHICO_MARX
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Wicca1971 deb1205
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I'm 3 months post op too and the knee still has significant swelling in the quadricep muscles (VMO). It gets so swollen that some of my co-workers ask if I have an ace bandage wrap on my knee under my scrubs. Sometimes I can't even get my jeans over my TKR leg because of the swelling. The rest of the knee is starting to look somewhat normal but the area that's swollen looks like it's trying to give birth.
My knee is also very weak( I had a manipulation done at 8 weeks that put me back a bit) I've been doing pt for almost 2 1/2 months and was hoping I would be further along. I feel your pain and your frustrations. We will all get better, hopefully sooner then later.