Joha123
junior member
Does anyone who still has their staples in find it hard to bend the knee? I have a gel bandage over it and it seems to be holding me back. Can’t wait to get those staples out. A week tomorrow!
No staples , glue..but had the aquacel bandage removed , and only made a slight difference in knee bend...Was hoping the bandage once removed would provide more bending, less pain...Didn’t happen for me... 23 days post op...knee is tight, stiff and constant ache...sleep is miserable..but each passing day, a tad better...learning from the pros here, TIME and not necessarily PT, is your friend...have another PT session today, gonna take it easy...
No staples , glue..but had the aquacel bandage removed , and only made a slight difference in knee bend...Was hoping the bandage once removed would provide more bending, less pain...Didn’t happen for me... 23 days post op...knee is tight, stiff and constant ache...sleep is miserable..but each passing day, a tad better...learning from the pros here, TIME and not necessarily PT, is your friend...have another PT session today, gonna take it easy...
They're only now going to remove your staples? That's a long time to leave them.Just coming into my fourth week post surgery. Still a lot of pain so I’m not sleeping that well at night. Went for a short walk outside when it was mild. Just a cane and my husband’s arm. Looking forward to having the staples removed this Friday!
@Joha123 you will notice that I have merged your two threads together as we prefer that members in recovery only have one thread.
This is for three reasons:
1. if you keep starting new threads, you miss the posts others have left you in the old threads
2. it often ends up that information is unnecessarily repeated
3. it's best if we can keep all your recovery story in one place so it's easily accessed if we need to advise you.
Please keep all your questions and updates on this thread. If you would like a new thread title just give a shout.
What would you like it changed to?I wanted to just change the heading of my thread but couldn’t find the way to do it so I started a new one instead. Could you change the heading for me?
Ooch! I have started getting these pains late in the day (now 3 weeks done). Also lots of stabbing last night for hours.I'm 9 weeks out. I experienced what I call the welders torch knee cap. My knee cap would have intense burning pain. I also had a lot of medial pain which felt like someone was pulling my inner knee area with strings as if I was a puppet and this would happen in specific areas separately- like having your nerves as the puppets strings.
4 weeks post op tomorrow, and have same lack of sleep you have experienced. I have scaled back on PT, just really walk about home, and got outside today as winter is on hiatus! Knee is tight and achy..time is our friend , but honestly , tough to keep singing that tune!