Greetings
@Basilia65
Do you have any specific concerns about your weight? Or did the surgeon just scare you?
If your health is generally good, and your surgeon did accept you for surgery, then I wouldn't worry too much.
Our surgeons are guided by statistics and 'in general' people do best if they are thin and perfectly healthy. But on an individual level, if they were really worried, they wouldn't have accepted you and let you schedule.
When I first saw my surgeon, he gave me such a lecture about my weight, and made me promise to call a group and ask about bariatric surgery, and it wasn't until he called his nurse in to schedule a date that I was certain I
had been accepted.
But my weight hasn't really been an issue. I had to have an extra sturdy walker. shrug. Certainly my knee replacement may be more inclined to fail sooner than someone of a more normal weight, but my healing has been excellent and I'm more mobile now that I've been in over 5 years.
And I weighed, at the morning of surgery, 365 lbs. You probably aren't that heavy, so please don't make yourself crazy about it.
Getting new knees is one of the best things I've ever done.
Feel free to ask me any questions you like. I'm a pretty open book about my experiences.