WHAT HAVE I DONE

YES!!! it gets better but it is a long recovery ! I am at week 13 and just starting to feel better! I am still stiff at night but can sleep without ice pack finally. Short term totally sucks long term so worth it! HANG in there!!!

It really will get better, I think many people in the early stages of recovery wish they never had the op. Use your medication to try and control pain, take it as prescribed don't try and put up with pain. Its good you are trying hard with your exercises that really helps, but don't over do it. Ice is also your friend. Recovery takes time, can't tell how long, nobody can every recovery is different, but you will get there in the end and have many pain free years to look forward to. it's 20 years and 18½ years since my TKRs and they are both still ok.

Yes. At least it has for me, now at 13 weeks post pkr. The early weeks were tough, sore and full of medication for me. It was all I could do to get my exercises done in a day. However, my knee is getting better all the time and I now believe I was right to have the surgery. I do still have days when I feel down about some aspect but I tend then to look up my symptoms on here and generally someone else has had a similar experience and I keep coming back to similar advice: do the exercises, take the medication you need, prioritise rest and allow your knee the time it needs to heal. It will go at its own pace. You will get there!

In the long run it will be so worth it . I took pain pills for about 3 weeks at night to sleep. I also slept on my back with my ice machine on all night. I am coming up on 7 months post op and doing really well. Wish I had exercised more, but hindsight is 20/20 . It is a long recovery.Hang in there & use ice .

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I HAD MY KNEE DONE OVER A YEAR AGO. Every day I SAY THE SAME THING YOU DO. WHY DID I DO THIS. I want my old knee back. ALL I can say to you is in time the pain and suffering will get better.

I've decided that there is nothing I CAN DO ABOUT IT now so I must accept it. I DO walk better. they save the other one had to be done but believe me that will never happen . I wish you luck and good health and just don’t stop doing the exercises they are very very important to keep the knee OK .

Hi Penny we have all been where you are don't despair! I now 7 months on and waiting to have the other one done! I was on pain killers for 3.5 months. The operated leg still feels stiff and tight sometimes but I do not get the dreadful pain that I am now experiencing in the un operated leg!

Take a day at a time do your exercises and use ice every 2 hours for 20mins to reduce the swelling. The recovery takes time its a big op but you will recover!

Keep going!

I am sorry that you are feeling this way, but completely understand how you feel. I too felt the same way for 8 weeks. I am now 13 weeks out from my partial and things have gotten better but there is still alot of work to be done. I am far from feeling 100%, but i take it week by week. wish someone would have told you this recovery was this long, huh? wishing you well and hang in there!

Poor you. I am day 7 today too. I agree nothing prepares you for the muscle pain. Tears, yes I have had them too. However on the plus side knee feels amazing so there must be a light somewhere at the end of the tunnel! We need to keep in touch to compare.