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    TKR TKR Right Recovery and losing my right mind

    I am here to tell you that life does get better! I’m a year out from my 2nd knee replacement & life is very good. I do remember that the first months after my TKR’s were spent elevating & icing with the ice machine day and night. Seriously- day and night! The only time I wasn’t elevating and...
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    TKR Anyone had Robotic Assisted TKR?

    Kneedhelp ow - it actually wasn’t that bad. I had retired the beginning on January 2020. Then with COVID, I didn’t travel like I had planned to the summer of 2020, instead just focused on recovery. I had very little pain, with both surgeries. Some stiffness, but like I’ve said before, I’ll take...
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    TKR Anyone had Robotic Assisted TKR?

    I sent you a PM, Mrty2019. Did you see it?
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    TKR First timer-LTKR

    Praying for a successful surgery. Thinking of you. Let us know how you are doing, please.
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    TKR A New Day

    I was reading your thread, and could relate to a lot of what you are experiencing. It will get better! I wore the Compression stockings for 2 weeks, wore a heavy duty pad for the first few weeks to help me get to the bathroom in time, iced and elevated constantly for months & always ate...
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    TKR need some advice . . .

    Before my TKRs, I had bone on bone pain for years. I still have some stiffness too, but I’ll take stiffness any day over the bone on bone pain that I used to have. The knee I had done in January 2020 has very little stiffness anymore, the one done in August 2020 still has some stiffness, but...
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    TKR Anyone had Robotic Assisted TKR?

    Hello, I had Mako Robotic-Arm Assisted Surgery. Actually both knees in 2020 were done that way. I had really good results. I’m in central Ohio, or I would recommend the surgeon I had. I’d be happy to answer questions if you have any.
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    TKR How long until you said "I'm glad I had the TKR"'

    You ask when others were glad they had this surgery done, I might be the odd man out here, but I was glad within the first month. How much are you elevating and icing? That’s about all I did for the first few months. Anytime I wasn’t doing PT or light household duties, I was elevating and...
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    TKR How long until you said "I'm glad I had the TKR"'

    Hello RIT387, welcome to Bonesmart! I wanted to comment on your question #1. I am using Scar Away twice a day. I think it has really helped. The left knee scar is barely noticeable. The right knee, still has a little way to go. But it’s coming along too. Hope you have a quick and easy recovery...
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    TKR _Annie_‘s Recovery Thread

    Hello, Just an update for my recovery thread, the end of this month will be my 1st year anniversary of my LTKR. I am well pleased with it, as well as the RTKR done in August 2020. I would do it all over again, I am pain free and am doing whatever I want. My days are no longer planned around my...
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    TKR New to this site

    @Schega, In my opinion, you can’t ice too much. I got an Iceman with my first knee replacement in January. For the 1st 3 months I iced and elevated any time I wasn’t doing something around the house. And I used it at night too - all night long. I had minimal pain and swelling and got along real...
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    TKR Zilretta

    TKRSharon, I like your idea of working on your strength a little later. I don’t want to tell you what to do, but if I were you, I would take a break from the PT. I would ice, elevate the leg anytime I’m not doing daily activities and see what happens. When I was about 3 months out, I started...
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    TKR TinAB rt knee Oct 1st

    Definitely go the Bonesmart way, @TinAB. I’ve not been sorry about following advice that I got here. It gave me the courage to say no to squats and anything PT had me do that caused me pain and swelling.
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    TKR SpaceGirls Road to Recovery Knee #2

    @SpaceGirl Yeah, I think you are one of the Super Women out there. I used to act like one too - 5 children (all in sports) & working fulltime. But I didn’t have knee replacements or take classes! It was hard keeping up with the laundry and cooking, I remember that from those days. I hope you...
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    TKR A unicorn's recovery story

    @Seattle It was interesting to read your story. Thanks for posting it. It’s encouraging to read posts of surgeries with good outcomes. I also had the Mako Robotic surgeries on both my knees and had an ice machine. I highly recommend both, too. I did have a stitch infection on the 2nd knee...
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