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deb1205
deb1205

Hi all

I am 6 months post op for my first knee and 7 weeks post of the second knee, I still get some pain in my first knee.. is this normal, the pain in my second knee is horrible, when will this pain go away? I can walk without sticks in the house, I am back to doing normal housework! I am feeling really fed up with it all tonight I know it is normal to have fed up days, but I am truly fed up with the pain. I just want a pain free day. Sorry all for my rant.

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  • Dcweather
    Dcweather deb1205

    Posted

    We're all different but 7 weeks is quite soon for full recovery. Perhaps you are overdoing it a bit? I think it was around 3 months before I was pain free and I had a couple of setbacks on the way when i over did it. Can you not remember how the timescale was with the first one? I'm sure it will improve with time wither way.

    • deb1205
      deb1205 Dcweather

      Posted

      As it is only 6 months I am still getting a little bit of pain fromy first op, nothing to bad. I think the problem maybe where I have had the second leg done I maybe putting more wieght through the first leg. Perhaps I am doing to much as I am trying to.get.back to a normal life. Yes I can remember the.time scale but I was.hoping by getting back to normal quickly it would help.my help strengthen both legs.
    • linda84382
      linda84382 deb1205

      Posted

      Slow down Deb. Pamper your 2nd as you did your 1st. I do understand. I'm waiting for normal as well. Today is 4 weeks post tkr for me. Give yourself permission to slow down. Less pain will be wondetful. God bless you.

  • Neizie
    Neizie deb1205

    Posted

    Hi Deb. I had my left knee done 14 mos. ago and it really took me close to a year to be without pain. At 6 mos., I had improved a lot but was far from pain free and was sick of the whole thing, as you are! All normal. Will have my right knee done in June, and not looking forward to it. But in the end, I do believe it will be worth it.
    • deb1205
      deb1205 Neizie

      Posted

      Good luck for when you have your second knee done, I hope you have a speedy recovery

  • tricia1954
    tricia1954 deb1205

    Posted

    Hi Deb. I suppose it's just a small comfort that there are other people in the same circumstance, but, I wish none of us had a hard time and didn't feel it necessary to vent our sorrows on here. 

    Dont be sorry for your rant, unless you have been through the same difficulties you don't understand. It can give us hope to hear of eventual success. But, I certainly feel like a failure when someone comes on and tells you they have sailed throughou!

    i had my first knee done last June so coming up on ten months and my second one month yesterday.

    i too am so fed up with it all. I religiously did all my exercises three times a day and was getting on fine until four months when my other knee suddenly got much worse, I couldn't exercise properly I couldn't walk, eventually not even with a stick, so my new knee took all the weight and started to get painful again. I like you, really hoped that having had both done I would have my life back. I know I will eventually (I hope) but at present the pain is just wearing me down. Everyone says it takes a year. I am hoping that in two months time I will, on the first knee at least be miraculously pain free.

    Yesterday on my one month anniversary I walked about 400 yards, did my exercises, and just stood and cooked for about 50 minutes. Not too much I thought, but the pain last night was awful and this morning so I obviously did too much. Very depressing as I didn't think so at the time. I just want my life back. I am 62, was fit before all this, only possibly a few pounds overweight if that and determined.

    I would just like to add for the doubters - I ONLY HAD A PARTIAL REPLACEMENT IN BOTH CASES!

    Just goes to show recovery is exactly the same as a total.

    I am so sorry you are fed up Debs and I wish you a rapid recovery and many pain free days to come. Rant on here all you want we will always listen.

    • deb1205
      deb1205 tricia1954

      Posted

      Thank you so much for your lovely reply. With a bit of luck we will both be pain free and able to get on with our lives

      Best wishes

    • linda84382
      linda84382 tricia1954

      Posted

      Your reply really reassured me as well. My first took about a year to feel like a normal knee. The 2nd one done 4 weeks ago is coming along slowly but still painful.

      I pray you improve very quickly. Standing for so long probably not good. I have arthritis in both feet so before knee surgery I figured out that to cook I have to break it up into 15 min jobs.

      Slow down and thanks again.

  • stephen34396
    stephen34396 deb1205

    Posted

    Hi deb, I’m 3weeks in to a TKR, just about walking crunch free round the house but need them when I’m outside, I know what you mean about the pain, it’s horible, I’m not sure weather I’m on course for normal recovery because I see so many variations, hang in there lass, you have my sympathies.
    • Dcweather
      Dcweather stephen34396

      Posted

      I don't know if this would help you psychologically but I kept a daily diary of how it felt and what I could do. Day to day I thought I wasn't making much progress but when I looked back on two week chunks and then monthly and so on I could see there was progress.

    • deb1205
      deb1205 Dcweather

      Posted

      Sorry for the late reply but that is a great idea, one which I will definitely be doing.

      Best wishex

  • CHICO_MARX
    CHICO_MARX deb1205

    Posted

    First, there is no normal.  Second, after reading over 4,000 posts on here, I can say that for all the people who had a #2 done months after a #1...or even years...very many report that the two experiences were NOT the same...some better, some worse.  Very few told of identical recoveries.  

    Maybe some of these will help...

    https://patient.info/forums/discuss/tkr-and-post-operative-depression-604195

    https://patient.info/forums/discuss/tkr-and-ptsd-569521

    https://patient.info/forums/discuss/the-power-of-rest-some-great-strategies-to-try-on-a-tkr-617892

    Got lots more out there.  

    Recommendation: You have a lot of energy but are directing it to the wrong place.  "Anger is better than despair." - Arnold Schwarzenegger, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines. Try refocusing that energy on your recovery.  ROM work and an exercise plan to rebuild your dead quads, glutes and core, etc. 

    https://patient.info/forums/discuss/post-tkr-exercising-565527

    Take the energy and make it useful...at the gym!!!  Just sayin'...

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